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CARRIE STERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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1939, N. W. Overstreet and A. H. Town. 522 McAllister St.

Overstreet and Town offered the Greenville School District a choice between a modern design akin to Vicksburg’s Bowmar Avenue Elementary School (YB25) or a traditional one. The district chose both. The red brick, porticoed Colonial Revival exterior pays homage to Colonial Williamsburg, while the stunning Moderne interior with its grand entrance lobby, rare for an elementary school, features curved walls and a huge cotton boll outlined in the terrazzo floor surrounded by the motto “Cotton Is King.” Built with funding from the Public Works Administration, the school contained twenty-one classrooms, an auditorium, gymnasium, lunchroom, and an atelier in honor of Greenville’s early-twentieth-century art teacher Carrie Stern.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "CARRIE STERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL", [Greenville, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR20.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 111-111.

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