In yesterday’s exciting and confusing Name This Place, Suzassippi, aka Ms. Early Bird, grabbed a bonus point for correctly identifying Longwood in her 4:55 AM answer to the first-ever pre-dawn Name This Place post. Today, I promise not to screw up the order of posts (crossing my fingers).
Cindy Hornsby, better known as Purvis’ Rambling Diva, snagged four points by recognizing the Hattiesburg Post Office’s door and adding the correct construction date and architects. If you’re curious about what the rest of this fabulous building looks like, see the long-ago post, “Why I Want To Live at Hattiesburg’s Art Deco P.O.”
So here’s the current standings, after the first inning:
Cindy Hornsby: 4
Suzassippi: 1
If you’re just joining us, check out The Rules.
Important Announcement: Here’s a new way to get a point–accurately describe the doors and their surrounds (if applicable) using architectural terminology from the new architectural glossaries you’ve all bought to keep up with Thomas Rosell’s Word of the Week series.
Yesterday was softball. Today, the pitches get faster.
Categories: Contest
Preservation in Mississippi 
Entrance to Central High School, Jackson, MS
LikeLike
Correct! Date of construction? Architect? Description?
LikeLike
Built 1888.
LikeLike
Hmm, apparently there is a core inside from the 1888 building, but nothing in this picture is 1888. I don’t know whether we’ve ever given someone half a point . . .
LikeLike
half a point!… comon! :)
LikeLike
Three-fourths of a point? :-)
LikeLike
1923 Claude Lindsley
LikeLike
And the 1935 additions was R.W. Naef
LikeLike
Part of the school dates to 1888; it was rebuilt in 1925 and parts of the earlier Jackson Graded Public School were incorporated into the new building. Jacobethan Revival or Collegiate Gothic, depending on whose version.
LikeLike
Architect Claude H. Lindsley
LikeLike
Well, darn, see what sleeping late will get you?
LikeLike
Wishing you hadn’t been so gracious with your points from yesterday’s early post? :-) You could still grab a point by venturing into the deep waters of architectural description!
LikeLike
I don’t even know what that means, Malvaney, let alone how to do it. I guess I better get to my day job.
LikeLike
PS: It is never about the points, just playing, which is one reason I was always picked last on the softball team.
LikeLike
The recessed entry features center double leaf doors flanked by single leaf doors on the left and right. All the doors are wood with a 15-pane divided window. Above the doors is a divided transom – with a 9-pane divided section over each single leaf door and a 18-pane divided section over the center double-leaf doors.
The lintel is made of stone and features an pointed arch (in the Gothic style) and a key-cut design where it meets the brick facade.
LikeLike
Don’t forget the hood, door panels, water table, stretcher bond and (magnolia flower?) medallions!
LikeLike
I was hoping someone would notice the flowers and mention them. The flowers are Tudor Roses which are a common theme in the… Tudor revival style! Its not my contest but I’d to give you a point.
LikeLike
I’m kicking myself for not including the medallions in my description . . . can I blame the fact that I hadn’t had enough caffeine when I wrote it and therefore my eyes weren’t open enough to see them . . . . that at least will be the excuse I go with . . .
LikeLike