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CITY HALL (ST. LOUISSAN FRANCISCO RAILROAD OFFICE BUILDING)

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1953, O. H. Tucker; 2000 remodeled. 109 S. Front St.

In 1887, the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, later part of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad (the Frisco), established Amory as a locomotive-servicing stop midway between Memphis and Birmingham. The Frisco’s former Southern Division two-story office building now serves as the City Hall. Its horizontal emphasis, with brick spandrels and bands of metal-sash windows, is typical of the International Style. A steam locomotive with a tender is displayed on the grounds. Across Main Street at number 105–107, the four-story, former Park Hotel (1926), now a commercial building, once served train passengers and features colorful diaper-pattern brickwork.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "CITY HALL (ST. LOUISSAN FRANCISCO RAILROAD OFFICE BUILDING)", [Amory, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR1.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 174-174.

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