Streetcars along both Hardy and Pine streets allowed the development of the area southwest of downtown at the beginning of the twentieth century. Residents lined the streets with water oaks, which more recently were replaced by longer-lived live oaks. The former Camp Elementary School (c. 1907) at 201 Mamie Street, now converted to school district offices, anchors this neighborhood, which originally was exclusively white. The school’s two-story core was designed by Robert E. Lee, and the one-story sections and Mission flourishes were added by N. W. Overstreet in 1928. Stylistic diversity reigns in the district’s residences, best seen along Adeline Street, where classically detailed Queen Anne houses at numbers 809 and 915, both dating to c. 1905, coexist with a 1923 Prairie Style house at number 801 and finely detailed Craftsman bungalows at 709, 909, and 911 Adeline. Like the William Griffin House (see PW31), these bungalows dating to the second decade of the twentieth century constitute an early concentration of Craftsman buildings in Mississippi. The neighborhood’s prestige is evident in the Mission Revival bungalow that Franklin M. Tatum, of the Tatum Lumber Company (PW39), built at 1002 W. Pine Street in 1929. His brother W. O. Tatum’s more formal Colonial Revival house of 1927 is at 110 Pinehurst Street.
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OAKS HISTORIC DISTRICT
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