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| Collins, John Thomas (b.1904 - d.1985) |
| Architect, Biloxi, MS |
| Born in Biloxi, MS, he graduated Tulane University School of Architecture with a B. Arch. in 1928. He began independent practice in 1929 in Biloxi. Married in 1942, he had no children by 1956. Served in the Navy Seabees (Construction Battalion) in WWII from 1942-45. After the war, he joined in partnership with WILLIAM J. COLLINS, JR. a civil engineer as COLLINS & COLLINS, and their firm used WILLIAM WIEDORN, landscape architect from New Orleans as its landscape architect of record (see AIA membership application, 1946). His firm was also associated wityh PETER J. TROLIO of Jackson in 1946. In 1956, his office was in the United Building, and his residence at 2227 W. Beach. He was registered to practice in both Mississippi and Louisiana. By 1962, in practice with LEONARD A. COLLINS. He died in October 1985 in Biloxi. See American Architects Directory, 1956. |
| Date | Inventory# | Name of Property | Role | Description of Work | Location |
| D | 1929 | 131-PRK-0121-X | Denson Hall [Old Denson], Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College | Architect | Original Building | Perkinston, Stone Co. |
| D | 1930 | 047-BLX-4027 | Frederick E. Wyatt House, 2555 Marshall Road, 133 Edgewater Drive | Architect | Original Building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1930 | 047-BLX-5010.1 | Administration Building, Woolmarket Vocational School (White) complex | Architect | Original building | Biloxi vic., Harrison Co. |
| D | c.1930 | 047-BLX-2405-X | Biloxi Community House, 674 Beach Boulevard, 309 Beach Boulevard, East | Architect | Original building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1932 | 047-GLF-1391.1 | St. Therese Catholic Church | Architect | Original Building | Gulfport, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1933 | 047-BLX-1142 | Sacred Heart Academy (Nativity BVM Sacred Heart Center; Mercy Cross High School) | Architect | Original building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1936-37 | 131-PRK-0106-ML | Harrison Hall, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College | Architect--Supervising | Original building | Perkinston, Stone Co. |
| D | 1937 | 047-BLX-3074-NRD | West End Fire Station (West End Fire Company No. 3) (Fire Museum) | Architect | Original building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1938-39 | 047-BLX-9002-X | (Old) Municipal Airport Hangar (Building 228), Keesler Air Force Base | Architect | Original building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1939 | 047-BLX-1932-X | "Bayou Auguste Homes" (public housing complex) | Supervising Architect | original buildings | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1939 | 047-BLX-1921-X | "Bayview Homes" (public housing complex) | Supervising Architect | original buildings | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1942 | 047-BLX-2307.2-X | (old) Biloxi Junior High School (Dukate Elementary School (II)) | Architect | Original building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1948-49 | 059-OCN-0464.3-NRD | St. Alphonsus School | Architect | Original building | Ocean Springs, Jackson Co. |
| D | c.1950 | 047-BLX-1183 | Biloxi Health Center | Architect | Original Building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1951-1953 | 047-BLX-1712-NR-ML | "Old Brick House" [Biloxi Garden Center] (Rogers House), 410 Bayview Avenue, East, 622 Bayview Avenue | Architect | Renovation by Dogwood Garden Club | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1951 | 047-BLX-1018.2-NRD-X | Veterans of Foreign Wars Building (City Hall Annex) | Architect | Original Building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1951 | 047-BLX-3061-NRD | Medical Arts Building | Architect | Original Building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1952 | 047-BLX-1921-X | "Bayview Homes" (public housing complex) | Supervising Architect | additions/renovations? | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1952 | 047-BLX-1932-X | "Bayou Auguste Homes" (public housing complex) | Supervising Architect | Additions?/renovations? | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1954 | 047-BLX-0084.1 | Michel Middle School | Architect--Joint Venture | Original building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1955 | 047-BLX-1142 | Sacred Heart Academy (Nativity BVM Sacred Heart Center; Mercy Cross High School) | Architect | Elementary building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| A | 1956 | 047-GLF-6006.1 | Classroom building, Orange Grove School complex | Architect | Original building | Gulfport, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1956 | 059-PAS-0842-NRD | Our Lady of Victories Gymnasium Auditorium (Resurrection Catholic School Gymnasium) | Original architect | Original Building | Pascagoula, Jackson Co. |
| D | 1957-8 | 047-BLX-4042 | Beauvoir Elementary School | Architect | Original Building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1958 | 059-PAS-0869-NRD | Our Lady of Victories Catholic High School (Resurrection Catholic School) | Original architect | Addition--rear elevation | Pascagoula, Jackson Co. |
| D | 1959 | 047-BLX-1030-NRD | U.S. Post Office and Federal Building | Architect | Original Building | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1961 | 059-PAS-0869-NRD | Our Lady of Victories Catholic High School (Resurrection Catholic School) | Original architect | Addition--rear elevation | Pascagoula, Jackson Co. |
| D | 1969 | 059-OCN-0259-DNC | Villa Maria Retirement Apartments | Architect--Associate | Original building | Ocean Springs, Jackson Co. |
| D | 1969 | 047-BLX-1020-NR-NRD-ML | Magnolia Hotel (Mardi Gras Museum) | Architect | restoration | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
| D | 1976 | 047-BLX-1018.2-NRD-X | Veterans of Foreign Wars Building (City Hall Annex) | Architect | Renovations/Facade addition | Biloxi, Harrison Co. |
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