Location Information
(for the Standard Oil Building)
Name:Standard Oil Building
Address:600 Amite Street, East
City/County:Jackson, Hinds County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1927
Architectural Styles(s):Italian Renaissance
No. of Stories:2
Registration Information
NR District Name:Spengler's Corner Boundary Increase (2019)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:1
Context/Comments
A symmetrical two-story Italian Renaissance Revival building of stuccoed masonry, with a hipped tile roof.

The building is included as a contributing element (element #1) in the enlargement of the Spengler's Corner Historic District that was placed on the National Register on 24 January 2019 as the Spengler's Corner Historic District Boundary Increase.

It is included in "Jackson's North State Street (Images of America)" (2009) (pp. 86-87).
Brief Description
A symmetrical two-story stuccoed commercial building with decorative terracotta details topped with a hipped red barrel tile roof with a prominent overhang supported by decorative carved modillions. There are seven bays: a recessed center single-leaf glazed bronze door with sidelights and transom flanked by four-over-four double-hung wood windows set in decorative terracotta surrounds. The main entrance is reached by a short flight of steps with decorative lamp posts on the cheek walls. The surround of the recess is an elaborate decorative terracotta surround and the terracotta continues on the recess walls. The second-floor window occupying the central bay is topped by a broken swan's neck pediment with a decorative cartouche in the middle. The other six windows on the second floor are enhanced with simple terracotta surrounds with molded heads and all windows are four-over-four double-hung wood. Above the second floor windows are attic vents in alternating circular and rectangular shapes. Between the western wall of the original building and North State Street occupying the site of an original Standard Oil Gas Station is one-story addition of white stucco walls and red tile roofs.