Tons of MissPres brownie points to whoever can identify this building in downtown Jackson. Hint: It’s very well disguised.
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LDDS or Worldcom Building (Whatever it’s called now)
Posted by Tom howorth | June 30, 2010, 6:38 am12 floors, 3 windows on each side of the entrance…
That’s gotta be the Plaza Building! Right?
Posted by Chris Myers | June 30, 2010, 6:44 amNope and nope, but good guesses and aren’t y’all the early birds! The WorldCom (now DEQ) building did have a skin of brick and colored panels at one time in its existence.
Posted by ELMalvaney | June 30, 2010, 7:08 amthe electric building
Posted by Belinda | June 30, 2010, 7:59 amNo, getting a little closer geographically though.
Posted by ELMalvaney | June 30, 2010, 8:01 amWalthall Hotel
Posted by JRGordon | June 30, 2010, 8:17 amNo, but that was my first guess too. :-)
Posted by ELMalvaney | June 30, 2010, 8:21 amIs it the building at the corner of Lamar and Pascagoula…I don’t know what its called…where Pizza Miller’s used to be?
Posted by Theodore | June 30, 2010, 8:46 amActually Pizza Millers, may it rest in peace and when will we get another good pizza place downtown again, was in the old Milner Building, which has now been kind of joined with this one, but I give you credit for being the first to be close.
Posted by ELMalvaney | June 30, 2010, 9:19 amRobert E. Lee Building?
Posted by Chris Myers | June 30, 2010, 8:47 amIs it the one I call the Darth Vader Building, redone in shiny chrome and black glass? It’s on Lamar Street between Pearl and Pascagoula.
Posted by Tom Howorth | June 30, 2010, 9:00 amThe black, curtain wall clad building at the corner of Lamar and Pascagoula, across from former Art Museum?
Posted by C.L. Newman | June 30, 2010, 9:02 amYes Tom and C.L.–both correct–congratulations! And yes, it is a very sinister building now, a far cry from its whimsical and sunny beginnings. I’ll post current pictures tomorrow along with all I know about the building (which isn’t much).
Posted by ELMalvaney | June 30, 2010, 9:22 amwow. i always assumed that building was new!
Posted by Chris Myers | June 30, 2010, 9:25 amWow, I’ve never seen this before! Did it have a name?
Posted by Carunzel | June 30, 2010, 9:31 amIt was called the Petroleum Building when it was built. I hadn’t seen a picture of it either and had assumed, like Chris Myers, that it was a newer building, so when I saw it last week on ebay I snapped it up for more than I might have paid for some other postcards. Now if I could just find an image of the Walthall in its colorful Downtowner phase, my life would be complete. Or as complete as it will probably get.
Posted by ELMalvaney | June 30, 2010, 12:57 pmI’m working on that Walthall/Downtowner image for you!
Posted by Tom Barnes | June 30, 2010, 2:36 pmI’m pretty sure we have a picture of the Downtowner in a subject file; I’ll have a look tomorrow.
I also thought the Petroleum Building was newish in the ’80s when that awful black skin was put on it; it was still called that then. I temped for someone in there in 1989 or ’90, but you’d never have known it was a mid-century building inside, either.
Posted by Carunzel | June 30, 2010, 4:12 pmOh, and that is the coolest find!
Posted by Carunzel | June 30, 2010, 4:12 pm