Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District

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Coordinates: 32°18′14″N 90°11′19″W / 32.30389°N 90.18861°W / 32.30389; -90.18861
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Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District
Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District is located in Mississippi
Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District
Location in Mississippi
LocationRoughly bounded by Amite, Mill, Fortification and Lamar Sts., Jackson, Mississippi
Coordinates32°18′14″N 90°11′19″W / 32.30389°N 90.18861°W / 32.30389; -90.18861
Area125 acres (51 ha)
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman, Art Deco, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.80002245[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 13, 1980

Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District is a

Jim Crow
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History

By 1908 one third of the area of Jackson was black-owned, one third of the houses where blacks lived were black-owned, and half of black families owned their own homes.

Speir Phonograph Company.[5] Jackson State University, a historically Black university, was located at the corner of Farish and Griffith for about a year until it moved to its new location.[2]

The Farish Street neighborhood was added as a historic district to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1][6] The neighborhood is historically significant as an economically independent black community, and as of 1980 was the largest such community in Mississippi. Most of the properties in the district were built between 1890 and 1930.[3]

A plan to renovate shotgun style homes for low income housing was initiated during the 1990s.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Farish Street Historical District, Jackson, MS". www.city-data.com. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  3. ^ a b Adele Cramer (May 17, 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 23, 2015. Photos
  4. ^ Smith, Quentin (February 17, 2023). "Unsung Hero: Honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Sidney Dillon Redmond, believed to be richest man in MS at time of his death". WLBT. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  5. ISBN 978-1-58157-923-9
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  6. ISBN 0-471-14345-6
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  7. ISBN 978-0-16-064700-0
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