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MAIN STREET BUILDINGS

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c. 1880–1919. 300–500 blocks of Main St.

In downtown Columbus R. H. Hunt’s work over several decades is prominently displayed. The three-and-a-half-story brick former Masonic Temple (c. 1880) at 324–326 Main has a corner-turreted tower and cast-iron first-floor columns added in 1902 by Hunt. At 509 Main, Hunt’s brick and terra-cotta Renaissance Revival First Columbus National Bank (1907) with paired upper-floor windows between pilasters originally rose six stories but was remodeled and reduced to four stories by P. J. Krouse (1877–1944) of Meridian after a 1919 fire. Hunt also designed the similarly organized former Odd Fellows Building (1906; 515–521 Main), a broad Renaissance Revival structure in brick and limestone with a pressed-metal cornice.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS WELCOME CENTER (ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH RECTORY)
CITY HALL
U.S. POST OFFICE
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
RIVERVIEW

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "MAIN STREET BUILDINGS", [Columbus, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR16.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 182-182.

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