Be the first winner in this week’s Name This Place contest. Read the rules, guess the place correctly and give us some information about it. It’s that simple!
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Preservation in Mississippi
It ain't all moonlight and magnolias
Be the first winner in this week’s Name This Place contest. Read the rules, guess the place correctly and give us some information about it. It’s that simple!
Categories: Contest
Preservation in Mississippi 
I’m not sure about this but is it the Carrollton Masonic Lodge?
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Nope, keep guessing!
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What a fabulous building! Is it the masonic lodge in Fayette?
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Woo-hoo, Belinda wins a point! You can get one more point by adding more information to that.
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Sold in 2004 to a Brookhaven lumber company…
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Thomas Hinds Lodge No. 58 F&AM, the oldest brick structure in Fayette, constructed in 1854. Since 2004, the Lodge has been closed, owned by a Brookhaven lumber company.
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Originally held a Presbyterian Church on the first floor.
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I love those Gothic windows on the first floor, giving away the religious origins. Very cool.
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Until they banished them…
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Volume 60 of “The Southern Reporter” describes a 1912 dispute over the lease agreement between the Thomas Hinds Lodge #58 and the Presbyterian Church of Fayette – resulting in the Church moving out of the lower floor of the building.
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I was online (working!) at 3 when the picture was posted. I could figure out it was a masonic something…due to the symbol on the door. Not being from MS, that was it for me.
Imagine my surprise when I checked later tonight to discover it was Lafayette!…which I accidentally stumbled upon a year ago when I made a wrong turn out of Natchez. After we drove out of town–thanks to a local who helped us get back to the highway–I remarked to my friend “I should have been taking pictures of all these neat buildings.”
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Sure, I believe you were working, Susan, totally believe it ;-l
Let this be a lesson to you to always stop and take pictures!
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Yay, points all around, although *mysteriously* there’s still a little recent tidbit of information out there if someone else wants to earn a point.
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I believe the building was recently acquired by the City of Fayette.
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Bingo! My little mystery has been solved.
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I should know this, but I can’t recall. Is is about to be a MS Landmark? I know there’s been talk about demolishing it, but think I heard that there was something in place (or going in place) to protect it more than it is.
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Haven’t heard anything about making it a Landmark.
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It didn’t really sound right to me either, but it was the best guess I could attempt to make today.
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Well, nice try, maybe you’ll catch the next one. Or maybe I’ll stump everyone like I always try to.
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