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YMCA BUILDING

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1914, N. W. Overstreet; 2017–2018 rehabilitated, Belinda Stewart Architects

Overstreet designed this Mediterranean-styled building six years after he graduated from the college with a degree in mechanical engineering. It has a deep portico, large paired eave brackets, a rich parapet profile, and tile roofs. A large second-floor space once functioned as a ballroom, its splendid tall windows divided by muntins in a sunburst pattern. East of the YMCA Building is George Hall (1902), the second oldest building on the campus. P. J. Krouse of the Meridian firm of Krouse and Hutchisson designed the structure, which served as the college’s first infirmary. It has a prominent three-bay Colonial Revival front porch, but the building is most distinctive for its Flemish bond brickwork with roughly textured header brick.

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, "YMCA BUILDING", [Mississippi State, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-CH17.4.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 203-203.

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