Triangle Homes

Triangle Homes went up in 1940 and 1941 on the triangle of land formed by South Maple Street and South 4th Avenue, as two-story row houses for Black families. The contractor, W. J. McGee and Son, also built Beacon Homes; the base bid was $325,866, which the Living New Deal lists as the federal cost. The row houses were still in use when the site was listed. A 2018 grant was paying for replacement units, with new buildings under construction across the street, and the date for demolishing the old row houses was unknown.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lauren Rogers Museum of Art — 0.6 mi
  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 — 6.8 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 — 26 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.
• Longleaf Trace — 27 mi
  A 44-mile paved rail-trail from Hattiesburg to Prentiss on the old Pearl & Leaf Rivers and Mississippi Central line that hauled the Piney Woods timber.

More markers nearby

• Dr. King Visits Laurel — steps away
• Jones County Blues — 0.3 mi
• Hotel Pinehurst — 0.4 mi
• Laurel City Hall — 0.4 mi