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MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS

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1920–1958. 200–300 blocks of Main St.

Local architect Harold Kaplan employed classical symmetry in a modernist design to lend formality to his two-story tan brick Greenville Police Department and Municipal Court (1958) at 216 Main. An aluminum louvered screen shields its centered glass portico from the southern sun. Next door, a green tile, pent roof gives the two-story Fire Station No. 1 (c. 1927; 218 Main) a more informal Mediterranean ambiance. One block away at 340 Main, the two-story red brick City Hall (1920, J. Scott Rice) presents an imposing entrance portico with its four full-height Ionic columns.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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GREENVILLE MUNICIPAL COURT (FIRST NATIONAL BANK)
U.S. COURTHOUSE AND POST OFFICE
GREENVILLE INN AND SUITES (LEVEE BOARD BUILDINGS)
ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH
WASHINGTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS", [Greenville, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR14.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 107-107.

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