Bank of Yazoo City

Main Street here is younger than the town. Fires in 1839 and 1904 consumed most of the Yazoo City business district. The 1904 fire destroyed 324 buildings and caused property damage of $2,250,000. Local architects A. N. Robelot and R. L. Moroney prepared drawings for rebuilding Main Street, and the reconstruction was finished in a year. The new storefronts were designed in Commercial Italianate, High Victorian Gothic and Renaissance Revival styles. The Bank of Yazoo City, a Post-Modern building of 1975, stands among them as a later arrival.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — steps away
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.
• Blue Front Cafe — 15 mi
  A cinder-block juke joint in Bentonia, opened in 1948 by Carey and Mary Holmes, home of the Bentonia school of blues and a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail.
• Delta National Forest — 22 mi
  The only bottomland hardwood forest in the national forest system, some 60,000 acres of oak, ash and cypress in Sharkey County, run with the state as Sunflower Wildlife Management Area.

More markers nearby

• Yazoo County Courthouse — steps away
• Bethel A.M.E. Church — steps away
• B.S. Ricks Memorial Library — steps away
• The Oakes House — 0.2 mi