Location Information
(for the Taborian Hospital)
Name:Taborian Hospital
Address:Highway 61
City/County:Mound Bayou, Bolivar County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1941
Architectural Styles(s):Art Deco, Art Moderne
No. of Stories:1
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:02 Aug 1996
NR District Name:Mound Bayou (2013)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:28
View National Register Nomination Form
Mississippi Landmark Information
Designated:10-24-2001
Recorded:11-14-2001
Book/Vol. No.:V. M241, p. 676
Easement Information
No. of Active Easements:2
Date Signed:08-06-2002
Expires:08-06-2027
Date Signed:05-23-2014
Expires:05-23-2039
Easement Type:Preservation/Maintenance
Book/Vol. No.:V. 214 Pg. 1573-5
Context/Comments
This hospital, operated by the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, opened in February 1942 and closed in 1982. The hospital is closely associated with the career of Dr. T.R.M. Howard, a civil rights activist who founded the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) in 1951 to encourage voter registration and black entrepreneurship in the Mississippi Delta. He rose to national prominence in 1955 for organizing an independent murder investigation into the lynching of Emmett Till.

It was individually listed on the National Register on 2 August 1996, and it was later included as a "previously listed" element (element #28) in the Mound Bayou Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 11 September 2013. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark, upon owner resolution, on 24 October 2001.

In 1999 it was recognized by MHT as one of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in Mississippi. It was later renovated, and reopened in 2014 as the Taborian Urgent Care Center.

It is included in "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p.118, DR34).
Brief Description
One-story, Art Deco style, irregularly-massed, brick hospital building. The roof is obscured by a parapet wall capped by cast-stone coping and the roof-line is pierced by a large smokestack. Poured, concrete belt-courses also run the perimeter of the building both above and below the windows on all elevations of the building. The western (main) elevation of the building is U-shaped with two wings extending toward the west. The facade is approached by a concrete walkway which leads to a central, semi-circular portico with a stepped Art Deco cornice. The original entrance under the portico is obscured by plywood sheets, Windows on the primary facade are three-over-three, double-hung, metal sash, covered with plywood. The placement of the windows on the facade is symmetrical from the portico with three grouped windows, two ganged windows, and one single window. The extending wings have five ganged windows on the facade which are filled with eight-over-eight double-hung wooden sash. The eastern elevation of the building has a central and northern projecting ell. This elevation has few openings, but ganged, casement windows are located on the northernmost ell although they are obscured by plywood. A few small, casement windows are found on the eastern and northern elevations.