This building was designed under the direction of James G. Hill (1841-1913), Supervising Architect of the Treasury from 1877 to 1883, and completed under the direction of Mifflin E. Bell (1846-1904), Supervising Architect of the Treasury from 1883 to 1887. The contractor for the basement and “area” walls was the Belknap & Dumesnil Stone Co. This was a fine, three-story Renaissance Revival style building of brick construction, on a partially-raised stone basement. It was enlarged at the southwest sometime between March 1900 and October 1904, and at the southeast in 1909-10 (though that addition is not shown on the April 1914 Sanborn map). The building was demolished about 1931-32 to make way for the new U. S. Post Office and Federal Building (later named the Eastland Federal Courthouse) that was built on the same site in 1932-34. The building is pictured in “Jackson Landmarks” (1982) (p. 21), “Jackson (Images of America)” (1998) (pp. 14-15), "Musing through Towns in Mississippi" (1999) (p. 55), and “Chimneyville: ‘Likenesses’ of Early Days in Jackson, Mississippi” (2007) (pp. 81, 176). |