Location Information
(for the Taylor School)
Name:Taylor School
Address:116 Leonhard (Leonard) Avenue
City/County:Bay St. Louis, Hancock County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1916
No. of Stories:1
Destroyed:Aug. 29, 2005 (Hurricane Katrina)
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:15 Jan 1987
Date Delisted:16 Jul 2008
    MPS:Historic Resources of Bay St. Louis
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Context/Comments
Taylor School was a rare example of the Craftsman style of architecture being utilized for an institutional building. The Craftsman style was associated primarily with residential architecture. The school maintained a high degree of architectural integrity. Taylor School, along with Webb School, was representative of the one and and two teacher schools that comprised the public education system on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This school building was individually listed on the National Register on 21 November 1986 (as a later addition to the "Historic Resources of Bay St. Louis," a group nomination submitted in 1980).

The building was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina on 29 August 2005. Following its destruction it was delisted from the National Register on 16 July 2008.
Brief Description
Taylor School was a one story, 5x2 bay, clapboarded silding raised on rusticated, concrete block piers. Its corrugated tin roof had exposed rafter ends and side gables with two attic windows each. The front facade was marked by a large, central gable set perpendicular to the main roofline and projecting out over a porch where it is supported by four Craftsman style columns resting on rusticated, concrete block pedestals. The gable, which was sheathed in shingle siding, contained a paired attic window and two smaller gables. The porch had two sets of steps leading up to it and a simple, wooden railing with a Colonial Revival style motif. Located in the porch area was a paired window flanked by two sets of double doors. Each door had paneling on its lower half and a multi-light window. The predominant window form was 8/4 double hung sash.