The Mississippi Department of Archives and History announced Monday that nine Mississippi properties have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places so far in 2026, bringing the state’s total to 1,541, the agency said.
The Mississippi National Register Review Board, administered by the archives department, reviews nominations, recommends changes and approves or disapproves listings, the department said. Approved nominations are forwarded to the National Park Service, which makes the final determination, the agency said.
MDAH provided descriptions of the newly listed sites. The Natchez outbuildings include ancillary structures that the agency said are significant artifacts of the experience of enslavement and offer insight into daily life in the pre-Civil War period. Texada in Natchez is a complex of a large two-story brick house, a two-story brick kitchen/quarter, a two-story wood-frame quarter and a brick-paved courtyard and grassy work yard, the department said. “Prairie Queen,” built in 1898 for Ben Walker by master builder James R. Walker, is a large local example of late 19th century Greek Revival style, MDAH said.
Other listings include examples of mid-20th century and historic educational and medical facilities, the department said. A group of Hill-Burton–funded hospitals reflects Mississippi’s role as a leading recipient of the Hill-Burton program, which funded more than 200 new facilities in the state from 1948 to 1975, MDAH said. The Coahoma Community College Historic District covers buildings dating mainly to the 1950s and 1960s on the historically black college north of Clarksdale. The Terry Rosenwald School, listed as the “Colored Public School of Terry,” is one of the Rosenwald Schools built across the South with public and private funding for Black students, the agency said.
The (Old) Kemper County Hospital in DeKalb, built in 1949, is noted as a Hill-Burton funded facility and an intact example of an International-style hospital. The Dr. Early Colman and Ann Foote Clements House in Rolling Fork, built about 1891, is a rare intact I-house from the late 19th century. The W.C. and Elaine Gryder House in Ocean Springs was designed by Organic architect Bruce Goff and is cited by the department as one of Mississippi’s best examples of Organic architecture, MDAH said.
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