Today’s Mississippi Streets image of Newman Street, in Hattiesburg’s railroad district, comes courtesy of MissPres reader Thomas Gentry, whose grandfather’s business, Burkett Sheet Metal Works was located on the right (one-story building with the sign painted on the front). Thanks for sharing!
Same street, 2014 on Google Streetview:
See other Mississippi Streets:
- 1920s Yazoo City
- 1910s Vicksburg
- 1950s New Albany
- 1960s Meridian
- 1930s Camp Shelby
- 1950s Pascagoula
- 1960s Neshoba County Fair
- Drew 1937
- Tupelo 1936
- Vicksburg 1936
- 1940s Gulfport
- 1940s Columbus
- Greenville 1927
- Lexington 1939
- 1910s Meridian
- 1920s Hattiesburg
- Greenville 1939
- 1960s Jackson
- Fulton’s Concrete Highway, c.1940
- 1960s Columbus
- 1930s Biloxi
Categories: Hattiesburg
Preservation in Mississippi 
The street address is 113 Newman. That second photo is , as I remember, where the Bonhome & Hattiesburg Southern RR locomotive engined wa parked. It may have been a Roundhouse. The building seems to in the process of new construction
The BSM building that replaced the old wood structure is identified as the Bruce Paper Co. In the MDHA archives. My father said that the architect that designed the new building was C. C. Herein.
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The current address for the Burkett Sheet Metal Works building is 140 Newman Street. That wooden structure is the Tatum building that housed the Hattiesburg Southern & Bonhomie RR locomotive. Maybe Tatum Lumber Company curator/timber baron, Dick Molphus, can tell us if it’s still housed there.
The 1935 BSM Works building that replaced the wooden structure was designed by architect C. C. Herrin. It is listed in the MDHA as the Bruce Paper Company building.
https://goo.gl/maps/mto1EX3FN2r
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