Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons | Architects & Engineers PA
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Institutional/Corporate
William F. Winter Archives and History Building
Jackson, MS
The William F. Winter Archives and History Building serves as the main administration building and home for the State of Mississippi archives collection. It is situated on and shares a bluff in downtown Jackson with three prominent historic structures—the War Memorial Building, the Capers Building and the State Old Capitol Building. The architecture of this new 140,575-square foot facility blends with its historic neighbors and forms an appropriate backdrop for the Old Capitol. To ensure the correct scale, the building’s visual mass was reduced by building the two floors of archival storage into the hillside and by recessing the fifth floor along the two facades facing the Old Capitol block. The facility’s major programmatic divisions are public areas for the study of State archives, administrative office spaces, archivists work areas, and archival stack storage areas.
Joint Venture with ECD Architects
Photography Credits: Architectural Photography, Inc./Sheridan Photography
