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GREENE COUNTY COURTHOUSE

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1939, Landry and Matthes. 416 Main St.

Although the seat of one of Mississippi’s territorial counties, this small town on the Chickasawhay River did not incorporate until 1904. The tan brick courthouse, the site’s fourth, is Leakesville’s architectural centerpiece. A PWA project, it marries Moderne’s geometric abstraction with a classical three-part form. Splayed steel-framed and mullioned windows with retreating planes at the jambs, textured brick spandrels, chamfered corners, and a recessed attic level—originally the jail—add layers and depth to what could have been a severely planar design.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "GREENE COUNTY COURTHOUSE", [Leakesville, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PW23.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 314-314.

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