Downtown Booneville Historic District

The Downtown Booneville Historic District in Booneville, Mississippi is a 10 acres (4.0 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It then included 32 contributing buildings and 16 non-contributing ones.[1][2]

Downtown Booneville Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Booneville Hardware Store, a contributing property in the Downtown Historic District
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Location	Roughly bounded by Church, College, Court, First, Hotel, Main, Market and Mill Sts., Booneville, Mississippi
Coordinates	34°39′21″N 88°33′48″W
Area	10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built	1922
Architectural style	Italianate, Colonial Revival, Mission/Spanish Revival
NRHP reference No.	98001337[1]
Added to NRHP	November 5, 1998

Significant buildings in the district include:

• Old Post Office, 100 North Main Street, (Colonial Revival)
• Prentiss County Courthouse (c.1925), 101 North Main Street, (Mediterranean Revival)
• Masonic Lodge, 104 North Main Street,
• 101 South Main Street,
• 106 South Main Street, (Italianate),
• Booneville Hardware Store, 112 South Main Street, (Italianate),
• Mobile & Ohio Railroad Depot, 100 West Church Street, (Late 19th Century Railroad Depot),
• Warehouse at 101 East Church Street, and
• Ashcroft Feeds Store.[2]

The old Post Office includes a mural by artist Stefan Hirsch, completed in 1943 under the Treasury Bureau's Section of Fine Arts program at the cost of $750 (see accompanying photo #9).[2]

The Prentiss County Courthouse is a three-story Mediterranean Revival-style hipped roof brick building with a five bay arcaded loggia and two two-story flat-roofed wings (see accompanying photo #10).[2]