Old Pascagoula High School

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(Old) Pascagoula High School

1939

Pascagoula, Mississippi (Jackson County)

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Opened in January, 1939 - closed in June 1997

Designed by the Gulfport architectural firm of Smith & Olschner, the High School was hailed as the “most modern and complete high school unit in the state.” Housed with in the Art Moderne style buildings one foot thick walls were; 2 auditoriums, a science laboratory, a large library, a music department, a cafeteria, and business and homemaking classrooms. The school, with a final cost of $150,000, was constructed with funding from the Public Works Administration, a Depression-era federal program that was responsible for thousands of public buildings during the 1930s.

Currently vacant, the City of Pascagoula wished to demolish the building and send it the way of the similarly styled Pascagoula South Elementary school. Residents of Pascagoula fought this action and saved the structure from the wrecking ball.

The Old Pascagoula High School was placed on the 10 most endangered historic places in 2005 by the Mississippi Heritage Trust.

As of 2007 the Old Pascagoula High School is being considered to be turned into apartments, and the larger auditorium (at seating capacity for 755) to be restored and used for functions by the near by new high school.

References

Mississippi Heritage Trust web site. http://www.mississippiheritage.com/10most.html

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