The Tudor-style community house was constructed in 1935 by FERA. “A stone-veneered building with false half-timbered gables, very similar to the community houses in Grenada and Winona” (Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database Fact Sheet). The… read more
The rock veneer school building was constructed using rock from the nearby Tishomingo County NYA quarry, and lumber from the NYA sawmill at Longview. A gymnasium (no longer extant) and a teacher’s house were also constructed in Longview. The school… read more
The stone veneer teacher’s house was constructed as W. P. 5288, Application #678, Pontotoc High School Teachers Home. The rock for the Colonial Revival style house was quarried from nearby Tishomingo County, at the NYA quarry. The house is currently… read more
The wood siding teacher’s house #2 was built next door to the stone veneer teacher’s house #1 for Pontotoc High School. According to the Series 2018-National Youth Administration Work Projects Photograph Album, 1937-1939, the house was constructed by WPA, and… read more
“The post office is built in the Georgian /Colonial Revival style and has central double-leaf aluminum and glass doors surrounded by a stone architrave with dentil molding in the cornice, a stone water table and cornice with dentil molding, brick… read more
Medium: oil on canvas “The Wedding of Ortez and SaOwana–Christmas 1540 was painted by Joseph Pollet and completed and installed in 1939. The mural depicts the feast given by Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto to honor the first recorded Christian… read more