Location Information
(for the old Farmers & Merchants Bank)
Name:(old) Farmers & Merchants Bank
Address:929 Washington Avenue
City/County:Ocean Springs, Jackson County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1913
Architectural Styles(s):Neoclassical
No. of Stories:2
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:20 Apr 1987
NR District Name:Old Ocean Springs (Boundary Increase) (2014)
    NR Status:Previously Listed
    Element No.:437
    MPS:Ocean Springs Multiple Resource Area
View National Register Nomination Form
Context/Comments
The Farmers and Merchants State Bank was the second bank established in Ocean Springs. A pharmacy was opened in the south half of the building in 1918 and operated there until 1930. The bank building also housed City Hall from about 1930-1941.

This building was individually listed on the National Register on 20 April 1987, as a component of the Ocean Springs Multiple Resource Area, from a nomination prepared by MDAH architectural historian Brian Berggren. It was later included as a previously-listed element (element #437) in the Old Ocean Springs Historic District Boundary Increase, which was added to the National Register on 2 June 2014.
Brief Description
2-story, brick, 5-bay-wide (w-w-d-w-w) flat roof Neoclassical commercial building with a decorative parapet. The entry is a 9-light over 1-panel wood door flanked by 3-light over 1-panel sidelights. Windows are wood 9/6 d-h-s, and wood 12 and 16-light fixed in singles. Features include full-height Doric pilasters, window entablatures supported by scrolled and fluted brackets, awnings, elongated windows with wood panel underneath on the first floor, brick window sills on the second floor, and an overhanging denticulated cornice. It is clad in brick.