Location Information
(for the Textile Building)
Name:Textile Building [Industrial Education Building]
Address:Mississippi State University
City/County:Starkville, Oktibbeha County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1900
Architectural Styles(s):Italianate, Romanesque, Mission
Remodeling Date:1971
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:12 May 1975
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Mississippi Landmark Information
Designated:06-07-1985
Recorded:06-17-1985
Book/Vol. No.:V. 666, p. 1874
Context/Comments
A brick industrial building with Mission Style and Italianate features; prominent shaped parapet over entrance, between two towers. The Industrial Education Building, constructed to house the ambitious but short-lived Textile School of what was then Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, now stands as the oldest extant academic building on the Mississippi State University campus as well as a significant monument in the history of industrialization, and particularly of cotton manufacturing, in Missisippi.