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NATCHEZ MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE (U.S. POST OFFICE)

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1905, James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury; 1935 addition. 301 Main St.

This one-story, three-bay tan brick building with a hipped roof and wide modillioned eaves has a central entrance with flanking windows, each pair outlined and accentuated by quoins. Now owned by the City of Natchez, the elegant Italian Renaissance Revival building was converted into the museum in 1991. Exhibits focus on the history and culture of African Americans in the South from 1716 to the present.

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, "NATCHEZ MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE (U.S. POST OFFICE)", [Natchez, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-ND33.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 37-37.

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