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Title

WPA Churches Survey, Item 27; ca. 1930s

Description

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Churches - Survey Photograph Collection. A black-and-white, exterior photograph of a large brick building. There is a one-story, central room with a stained-glass in a lancet arch shape, a gable roof, and a double-hung window on the side. The building has two towers, one on each side of the central room. There are two front doors, one on each tower, with stairs leading from the sidewalk to the door. The doors have an arched transom window. Further up the towers on each side are pairs of tall and narrow windows, with lancet arch windows above them. The towers' roofs are decorated with crenellation along all four sides. The main structure of the building is two-stories with a wing on each side and a cross gable roof. The wall facing the road has a circular window. There are double-hung windows on the building's sides and wings. The building is partially obscured by foliage. There are small hedges around the building's yard.

Creator

United States. Works Progress Administration.

Date

ca. 1930s

Identifier

96722-photo-1

Rights

NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/