
Built with Works Progress Administration (WPA) funding, this Moderne design, published as a “model armory” in Architectural Concrete (1941), was duplicated in at least four other towns: Aberdeen, Amory, Starkville, and Greenwood. By the late 1930s, monolithic concrete, usually rubbed smooth to emphasize volume, had become Overstreet and Town’s signature. A low-relief stylized eagle hovers over the deeply recessed entrance, and the curved barrel-roof of the drill hall behind contrasts with the incised horizontal lines of the front office wing.