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BIIk CITY HALL WAS A //?60 00551	COMBINED	MARKET	PLACE AND
CITY HALL 1895 to 1922 AFTKR MANY PREVIOUS LOCATIONS UNTIL SETTLING AT JACKSON AND LAMEUSE STREETS IN I960
'•193^ Biographies of Mississippi Coast Souvenir Golden Jubilee Number Commemorating 50 years of Newspaper Service by The Daily Herald”
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Before the 193^ occupied City Hall was built in l ftag. the
Council meetings were held In the old Flr»n»»nJj» TTnn t amanafl__________
1^36 and in Spanish Hall, corner Lameuse and Washington In 1887 and later In the old city hall, a part of vhich is now included in the property next the railroad on the east side of Vain Street.
The City Hall at Main-St r e et_and~Hova r d^verjua—v«&-tuiUL_In—189 5 vith a bond issue of $15,000. B.C. Taylor of Keridlan started the vork vhich vas completed by John R. Harkness and L* A. Harkness •
In 1922 it vas remodeled, greatest change being made In front entrance~and turning of first floor market stalls Into city offices,
A court room and city offices occupy second floor.
In I960 the Biloxl_Clty->Hall moved from this most ugly building to the beautiful on3ro'f the l$LQ8__£ost OffjLca—and_JFj?deral~Court Building at the corner of Jackson anc!h€-aj^3A-£lr6ets. (personal viewT of~M. James Stevens De<rr"30f 1975)
The	Main Street and Howard Avenue plot of	ground was given to
the City	of Biloxi	in the late 1850s (probably	1858)	by Gaspar Dldier
vlth one reservation. Apparently the Didler family proposed to give a forty foot vide street (Main) to run from Front Street to Back Bay, vlth a widened spaced on the north side of the Intersection of Main and Pass	Christian	Road (nov Hovard Avenue) on	vhich	a Market House
would be	built—if	they vere given all revenues from	the Market House
for ten years, at the end of vhich time they vould cede said property to Biloxi.
MJSj This is possibly the first super.rflrkrt proposal^gadf_&a a deal along the Mississippi Coast.