Downtown Booneville Historic District
Downtown Booneville Historic District | |
 Booneville Hardware Store, a contributing property in the Downtown Historic District | |
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| Location | Roughly bounded by Church, College, Court, First, Hotel, Main, Market and Mill Sts., Booneville, Mississippi |
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| Coordinates | 34°39′21″N 88°33′48″W / 34.65583°N 88.56333°W |
| Area | 10 acres (4.0 ha) |
| Built | 1922 |
| Architectural style | Italianate, Colonial Revival, Mission/Spanish Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 98001337[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 5, 1998 |
The Downtown Booneville Historic District in Booneville, Mississippi is a 10 acres (4.0 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It then included 32 contributing buildings and 16 non-contributing ones.[1][2]
Significant buildings in the district include:
- Old Post Office, 100 North Main Street, (Colonial Revival)
- Prentiss County Courthouse (c.1925), 101 North Main Street, (Mediterranean Revival)
- Masonic Lodge, 104 North Main Street,
- 101 South Main Street,
- 106 South Main Street, (Italianate),
- Booneville Hardware Store, 112 South Main Street, (Italianate),
- Mobile & Ohio Railroad Depot, 100 West Church Street, (Late 19th Century Railroad Depot),
- Warehouse at 101 East Church Street, and
- Ashcroft Feeds Store.[2]
The old Post Office includes a mural by artist Stefan Hirsch, completed in 1943 under the Treasury Bureau's Section of Fine Arts program at the cost of $750 (see accompanying photo #9).[2]
The Prentiss County Courthouse is a three-story Mediterranean Revival-style hipped roof brick building with a five bay arcaded loggia and two two-story flat-roofed wings (see accompanying photo #10).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c d James Martin, Jennifer Dobson, and Shannon Criss (June 4, 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Downtown Booneville Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) With 22 photos from 1996-98.
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- Buildings and structures completed in 1922
- Colonial Revival architecture in Mississippi
- Italianate architecture in Mississippi
- Mission Revival architecture in Mississippi
- National Register of Historic Places in Prentiss County, Mississippi
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi
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