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BEXLEY SCHOOL

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1913. U.S. 98 at N. Bexley Rd., 6 miles northwest of Lucedale

This rare surviving early consolidated public school campus opened just after the passage of Mississippi’s first consolidation school laws and before rural standardized plans became common. The one-story frame building with a low hipped roof held three classrooms and eight grades. The central block with dual entrance porches reflects a combination classroom/assembly space. Later standardized plans had banks of windows facing either east or west rather than the single windows on all elevations as here. A frame lunchroom (1938), constructed by National Youth Administration recruits, exemplifies this building type that became common in the 1930s when federal lunch programs provided nutrition to needy students, subsidized agricultural products, and employed women as cafeteria workers.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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GEORGE COUNTY COURTHOUSE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "BEXLEY SCHOOL", [Lucedale, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PW51.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 330-330.

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