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The Smith Park Architectural District Additional Documentation and Boundary Increase No.3 includes five properties in the 200 block of East Capitol Street and two properties in the same block on East Pearl Street, between West and Lamar streets. This block in Jackson's central downtown built up dramatically from the 1920s through the 1960s, and has historically been connected with the dense high-rise development in the existing Smith Park district. This nomination also includes an extension of the period of significance for the existing district from 1940 to 1964, which changes the status of some late-traditional and Modernist buildings from non-contributing to contributing. The contributing resources in the boundary increase are consistent with those in the listed Smith Park Architectural District (including its two previous boundary increases) in age (including the extended period of significance), design,
setting, and materials. The third boundary increase more fully illustrates the architectural significance of the district, addresses its commercial significance, and extends it to its western limits, where it is bounded by late twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century buildings built after Urban Renewal, beyond which begins the West Capitol Historic District. |
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