Downtown Corinth Historic District


Downtown Corinth Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


Location	Roughly bounded by Wick, Jackson, Foote and Webster Sts., Corinth, Mississippi
Area	31 acres (13 ha)
Built	1855
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Italianate, Romanesque
NRHP Reference #	92001792^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 28, 1993

The Downtown Corinth Historic District in Corinth, Mississippi is a 31-acre (13 ha) historic district. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993,^[1] at which time it included the majority of Corinth's downtown commercial buildings. The street plan of the area was laid out in 1855 by surveyors Houston Mitchell (1824-1877) and Hamilton Mask, who intended for the city to be named "Cross City". The plan conformed to the rights-of-way granted to the Memphis & Charleston Railroad and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad lines; the downtown area evolved from c.1855 to c.1941.^[2]

Coliseum Theatre

It includes 88 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and a contributing object.^[2] It includes:

Old U.S. Post Office, individually listed on the National Register
Coliseum Theatre, individually listed on the National Register
Corinth Depot

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 John Linn Hopkins (July 9, 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Downtown Corinth Historic District" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved January 17, 2017. with 22 photos (see photo captions pages 67-69 of text document)

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