Location Information
(for the Vicksburg City Hall)
Name:Vicksburg City Hall
Address:1401 Walnut Street
City/County:Vicksburg, Warren County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1902
Architectural Styles(s):Neoclassical
Remodeling Date:1940
Registration Information
NR District Name:Uptown Vicksburg (1993)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:63
NR District Name:Uptown Vicksburg Amendment and Boundary Increase No. 2 (2020)
    NR Status:Previously Listed
    Element No.:66
Mississippi Landmark Information
Designated:03-05-1986
Recorded:03-27-1986
Book/Vol. No.:V. 774, p. 417
Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Historic Vicksburg District
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Context/Comments
Built in 1902, the Vicksburg City Hall was designed by architect James Riely Gordon, who specialized in courthouses and is particularly noted for designing several prominent county courthouses in Texas. In Mississippi, he also designed the Wilkinson County Courthouse (1902-03) and the Copiah County Courthouse in Hazlehurst (1902-03).

This building was listed as element #63 in the Uptown Vicksburg Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 19 August 1993, and it was more recently included as element #66 in the Uptown Vicksburg Amendment and Boundary Increase No. 2, which was added to the National Register on 4 February 2020. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 5 March 1986.

It is included in the "Historic Vicksburg Walking Tour Guide" (1987) (#33, p. 26), "James Riely Gordon: His Courthouses and Other Public Architecture" (2011) (pp.190-194,C-15), and “Buildings of Mississippi” (2020) (pp.72-73, YB5).
Brief Description
A three-story brick Neoclassical building, facing west, with a metal gable roof with intersecting hips. The front facade has a convex-curved two-tiered gallery, with a heavy cornice supported by two-story Composite columns on a raised base. The gallery has been sensitively enclosed with brick and windows. The gallery is flanked by a square three-story tower on either end capped with a small dome. The entrance is in this north tower and there are glazed double-leaf doors with a leaded transom crowned by an entablature supported by consoles. Above this door is a round window with terracotta molding. The north facade is also a convex curve highlighted with two-story Composite pilasters and a heavy cornice.