Original SEC Office

The Southeastern Conference had no formal headquarters for its first eight years. In 1940 it named a former Mississippi governor, Martin "Mike" Conner, as its first president, and the league set up its first corporate office on the thirteenth floor of the Standard Life Building in downtown Jackson. The office stayed until 1948, when the conference moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where it remains. Sewanee, one of the founding members, left after the 1940 season to drop athletic scholarships and become a Division III independent.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — 0.3 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Old Capitol Museum — 0.6 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 0.7 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 3.2 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• Ace Records — steps away
• Edwards Hotel — steps away
• Jesse Robinson — steps away
• Scott Radio Service — 0.2 mi