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OLD WISTERIA HOTEL

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1910, R. H. Hunt. 100 N. Central Ave.

On the lower ground across the tracks from the Illinois Central depot (CH3) stands the former Wisteria Hotel. Hunt conceived the three-and-a-half-story building as a very large Colonial Revival house. Today one of the state’s most notable surviving wooden railroad hotels, it lost its commodious, two-story, wraparound veranda with a rooftop viewing platform in a 1935 fire that spread from the adjacent Winona Hotel, which was completely destroyed. To the south on the other side of Hampton Street, Mississippi builder Thomas B. Hentz erected the Hotel Simmons (1927; 100 S. Central Avenue) in a commercial Craftsman style.

Hunt also designed the Romanesque Revival Moore Memorial United Methodist Church (1898) a few blocks west at 201 Magnolia Street, which has an impressive square tower with a spire and pinnacles.

Writing Credits

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

ILLINOIS CENTRAL DEPOT
ITALIANATE I-HOUSES ON SUMMIT STREET

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "OLD WISTERIA HOTEL", [Winona, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-CH4.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 194-194.

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