Old Vicksburg Library -- Uptown Vicksburg Historic District -- Vicksburg MS
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The Old Vicksburg Library is a contributing building in the US National Register Uptown Vicksburg Historic District in downtown Vicksburg MS.
Waymark Code: WMMK84
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 10/01/2014
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The Uptown Vicksburg Historic District is comprised of 86 contributing buildings within a rectangular district in downtown Vicksburg roughly bounded by Washington Street on the west, South Street on the south, Locust Street on the east, and Clay Street on the north. The Uptown Vicksburg Historic District was listed on the US National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The Old Vicksburg Library was added to the US National Register in its own right in 1992.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History website, the listing for the Old Vicksburg Library building as a contributing building in the Uptown Vicksburg Historic District: (
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“50. C 819. Old Vicksburg Library.
A two-story stucco Mission Revival building, facing east (original entrance), with a tiled gable roof with parapeted gable ends. There is a widely overhanging cornice which is bracketed and continues around the gable end. There are seven bays on the Monroe Street facade: six one-over-one, double-hung windows with round-arched transoms and a non-historic door flanked by fluted Doric columns with a plain entablature. Designed by Edward L. Tilton of New York. Listed on the National Register in 1992. 1916."