Buildings of Mississippi / Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baughn, Jennifer V. O., author.

Fazio, Michael W., author.

Miller, Mary Warren, 1945- author.

Series:

Buildings of the United States

Society of Architectural Historians : buildings of the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buildings--Mississippi--Guidebooks.

Buildings.

Architecture.

Mississippi.

Architecture--Mississippi--Guidebooks.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

xiii, 406 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.

Summary:

"As Eudora Welty observed, "One place understood helps us know all places better." Nowhere is this more apropos than in her home state of Mississippi. Though accounts of the state's architecture have long conjured visions of white-columned antebellum mansions, its towns, buildings, and landscapes are ultimately far more complex, engaging, and challenging. This guidebook surveys a range of such locations, from Native American mounds and villages to plantation outbuildings that bear witness to the lives of enslaved African Americans, from twentieth-century enclaves built for sawmill workers and oil tycoons to neighborhoods that bolstered black Mississippians during segregation, and from the vernacular streetscapes of small towns to modern architecture in Greenville, Meridian, Jackson, and Biloxi. In the pages of this latest volume in the celebrated Buildings of the United States series, newly redesigned in a more user-friendly format, readers will come to know the history of close to 600 sites, illustrated by 250 photographs (most in full color) and 29 maps, including such wide-ranging places as Longwood and the Museum of African American History and Culture in Natchez, Vicksburg National Military Park, Winterville Mounds, the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, the Neshoba County Jail and Courthouse, the University of Mississippi and William Faulkner's Rowan Oak in Oxford, and the homes of Medgar and Myrlie Evers and Eudora Welty in Jackson"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 How to Use This Book

2 Foreword

3 Acknowledgments

4 Introduction

5 Natchez District

6 Yazoo Bluffs Region

7 Delta Region

8 North Central Region

9 Northeast Region

10 Prairie Region

11 Central Hills

12 East Mississippi

13 Jackson Metropolitan Region

14 Southern Illinois Central Corridor

15 Piney Woods Region

16 Gulf Coast

17 Bibliography

18 Illustration Credits

19 Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: O'Gorman Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780813944241

0813944244

OCLC:

1152472648