The facade of this two-story building (1903) with a pedimented central section flanked by receding single bays was derived from eighteenth-century English neo-Palladian models. Hunt artfully stacked on a rusticated limestone first floor, a brick second floor with framing limestone quoins and limestone columns in antis, a balustrade, voussoirs, and keystones, and he crowned it all with a pressed-metal cornice.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "CITY HALL", [Columbus, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR17.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 182-182.
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