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Ransom Carey Jones. The Woolfolk State Office Building is a high-rise government office building in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. [1] It was designed in the Art Deco architectural style by Emmett J. Hull, Edgar Lucian Malvaney, Frank P. Gates and Ransom Carey Jones, and it was completed in 1949. [1] It is currently the tenth-tallest building in ...
September 18, 2013. Medgar Evers Historic District is a U.S. historic district and residential neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi. The neighborhood contains the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, the former home of African American civil rights activist Medgar Evers (1925–1963). Poet and writer Margaret Abigail Alexander Walker ...
March 5, 1986 [1] The Mississippi State Capitol or the “New Capitol,” has been the seat of the state’s government since it succeeded the old statehouse in 1903. Located in Jackson, it was designated as a Mississippi Landmark in 1986, a National Historic Landmark in 2016 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
Technical details. Floor count. 14. One Jackson Place is a high-rise office building in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. [ 1] It was designed in the modernist architectural style, and it was completed in 1987. [ 1] It is the 20th tallest building in Jackson. [ 2] As of 2015, it is owned by the Hertz Investment Group, chaired by Judah Hertz.
Jackson, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the central region of the U.S. state of Mississippi that covers seven counties: Copiah, Hinds, Holmes, Madison, Rankin, Simpson, and Yazoo. As of the 2010 census, the Jackson MSA had a population of 586,320. According to 2019 estimates, the population has ...
Website. www.muslimmuseum.org. The International Museum of Muslim Cultures (IMMC) is "America’s first Islamic history and culture museum". [1] It was established in April 2001, in Jackson, Mississippi in what is now the Arts Center of Mississippi. [2][3] The museum was co-founded by Emad Al-Turk and Okolo Rashid in response to the perception ...
Added to NRHP. July 3, 1979. The Alex William House, also known as the Greystone Hotel, is a historic house in Jackson, Mississippi. It was built in 1912 by George Thomas, an African-American building contractor, for Alex Williams, an African-American grocer. [2] From 1922 to 1945, it belonged to the Marino family, and it became a hotel in 1950 ...
Mississippi Coliseum. The Mississippi Coliseum is a 6,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Jackson, Mississippi, built in 1962 and located on the Mississippi State Fairgrounds complex. The arena has 6,812 seats available for basketball, and can be expanded to 10,000 for concerts. It sits 2900 feet (884 meters) atop the extinct Jackson Volcano.