Similar in its T-plan and finishes to Nolan’s Bay St. Louis school (see GC6), this building has a cast-stone frontispiece featuring a balustraded entrance, a high relief, broken, curved pediment, and cartouches framed by consoles. Six murals in the auditorium by Walter Anderson were removed to the Walter Anderson Museum (GC37) in 1989. The cultural center, named for Mississippi’s first woman school superintendent, Mary C. O’Keefe, opened in 1999.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "MARY C. O’KEEFE CULTURAL CENTER (OCEAN SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL)", [Ocean Springs, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-GC38.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 356-356.
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