Location Information
(for the Old Houlka School)
Name:(Old) Houlka School
City/County:Houlka, Chickasaw County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:c.1907
Mississippi Landmark Information
Designated:12-14-1989
Recorded:01-16-1990
Book/Vol. No.:V. 634, p. 62
Easement Information
Date Signed:05-09-2006
Expires:05-09-2031
Easement Type:Preservation/Maintenance
Context/Comments
This building was built about 1907 to serve as the public school for the Houlka community. The building originally had a third (attic) story which served as a meeting place for John N. Cain Lodge No. 259, F&AM, until 1911, when the lodge moved to the upper story of a commercial building. The school building was remodeled in 1934, at which time the attic story was removed and replaced with a truncated hip roof. The original roof configuration was replaced when the building was restored in 2003-04 using Community Heritage Preservation Grant funds. {John N. Cain Lodge No. 259, F&AM, was chartered in 1865 at Red Land and moved to Houlka in 1887.}