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VICKSBURG CITY HALL

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1902, J. Riely Gordon. 1401 Walnut St.

Gordon’s design submitted in the competition for the new Mississippi State Capitol (JM16) was rejected, and instead he employed his robust brand of Beaux-Arts classicism for this City Hall, built while the new capitol was under construction. The building’s interplay of a symmetrical main block and slightly different semicircular end pavilions, all enriched by assertive classical details exemplifies Gordon’s approach in his numerous public buildings in Texas and the Southeast. The original bow-fronted two-story porch has been enclosed for office space and the three angels blowing trumpets that once stood on the domed entrance towers were destroyed by a tornado in December 1953.

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, "VICKSBURG CITY HALL", [Vicksburg, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-YB5.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 72-73.

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