Laurel City Hall

The architect behind Laurel's city hall liked variety. Penn Jeffries Krouse, born in 1877 and based in Meridian, designed in Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Egyptian Revival, Beaux Arts and Art Deco, and his work runs from a synagogue and a Scottish Rite cathedral to courthouses in Clarke, Jones, Yalobusha, Lauderdale and Pearl River counties. He also drew Meridian's city hall, finished in 1914. During the Second World War he chaired the War Price and Rationing Administration, resigned when his health failed, and died in April 1944.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lauren Rogers Museum of Art — steps away
  Mississippi's oldest art museum, a 1923 memorial to a timber heir in Laurel, with a major Native American basket collection and no admission fee since it opened.
• Amos Deason House — 7.0 mi
  A Greek Revival house in Ellisville where a Confederate major was shot in 1863, tied to the history of the Free State of Jones.
• African American Military History Museum — 27 mi
  The wooden USO club that opened in March 1942 for Black soldiers training at Camp Shelby, now a museum of African American military service from the Revolutionary War to Iraq.

More markers nearby

• Hotel Pinehurst — steps away
• Jones County Blues — 0.2 mi
• Triangle Homes — 0.4 mi
• Dr. King Visits Laurel — 0.5 mi