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Roughly bounded by the former Louisville and Nashville railroad line, 23rd Avenue, 13th Street and 27th Avenue: Gulfport: Listing replaced by Gulfport Harbor Square Commercial Historic District: 8: Hermann House: Hermann House: May 18, 1984 (#84002189)
The U.S. Post Office and Customhouse in Gulfport, Mississippi is a historic post office and customhouse that was completed in 1910 under supervision of the U.S. Treasury Department, with James Knox Taylor as Supervising Architect.
Two villages predated the founding of Gulfport: Mississippi City, located along the gulf, and Handsboro, founded in the 1800s along the northern bayous. [5] [6] Mississippi City was born out of the Mississippi City Company that was formed in 1837 to build a town to serve as the terminus for the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad.
The restaurant building was constructed with a Moroccan architecture style turret. [ 2 ] It was famous in the 1950s and 1960s and hosted many famous entertainers, including Andy Griffith , [ 2 ] Mel Torme , Jerry Van Dyke , Martha Raye , Rudy Vallee , Professor Backwards , Mamie Van Doren , Johnny Rivers and Jerry Lee Lewis . [ 2 ]
Gulfport Veterans Administration Medical Center Historic District, also known as Centennial Plaza, is a 48-acre (19 ha) compound located in Gulfport, Mississippi. [3] The facility operated as a medical center under the Veterans Administration from the 1920s until 2005, when damage from Hurricane Katrina resulted in its closure. [ 4 ]
The one the couple bought was built in 1940 with a 5,520-square-foot restaurant space on the ground floor and a 2,550-square-foot office space on the top floor. ... This is the inside of the new ...
In 1781 all of Pass Christian peninsula was owned by Julia de la Brosse (Widow Asmard). Upon her death in 1799, Widow Asmard deeded 800 arpents – the entire downtown Pass Christian – to Charles Asmar, a free person of color, [5] who upon his death left the property to his heirs. Pass Christian was officially chartered as a town in 1848.
The courthouse tower and annex are situated on 6.7 acres (2.7 ha). A park-like plaza extends 243 feet (74 m) from the street to the main entrance of the courthouse tower. Southern live oaks (Quercus virginiana), dating from the 1923 school property, dot the landscape. A large theater at the center of the old school building was replaced with a ...