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U.S. POST OFFICE AND CUSTOMHOUSE

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1909–1910, James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury; 2421 13th St.

This two-story Renaissance Revival building clad in dressed stone has an entrance loggia with a crowning iron railing between projecting end bays, a modillioned cornice, and a low-pitched red tile roof.

Nearby, the buff brick, rectangular, former Gulfport-Harrison County Carnegie Library (1917, Nolan and Torre; 1300 24th Avenue) was the only Carnegie-funded library on the Mississippi Coast. The small building is given monumentality by its large round-arched windows, Corinthian pilasters, and a parapet with central balustrade.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

MISSISSIPPI POWER COMPANY (GULF AND SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD)
HANCOCK BANK (BANK OF GULFPORT)
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
SORIA CITY NEIGHBORHOOD
DR. FELIX DUNN HOUSE AND CLINIC

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "U.S. POST OFFICE AND CUSTOMHOUSE", [Gulfport, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-GC16.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 342-343.

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