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CUWV * * • . United States Department of the Interior * * National Park Sen/ica National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet onward oaks WUIIUUUdUVii Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi Section number -§--.9 Page —i. Vr child and has recently undertaken the rehabilitation of the house based on historic photographs and physical evidence. The hcus« retains its raised Creole cottage form with side-gabled roof and French doors opening onto undercut galleries. The galleries were originally decorated with jigsawn balustrades, column brackets, and scalloped fascia, and the owner plans to replicate these. Nevertheless, at the present time the house retains sufficient architectural integrity to be eligible as a good local example of .. pos~»bei.iuKi raised Creole cottage. V. BIBLIOGRAPHY Barrow, Pauline. Site visits to onward Oaks. Early 20th Century historic photographs of Camp Onward in p. ion of owner. n. 'Hilton, Libby. Interviewed by Christine Caroilo in New Crlea:v;». July 26, 1995. Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Preserva-, tion Division. Historic Resources Inventory. Hancock Courtv Mississippi Department of Archives and History. History* ?r*s«~r- . tion Division. National Register Files for Hancock. county Rowland, Dunbar. Mississippi. Volume l. Atlanta: Southern Historical Publishing Association, 1907. Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Map for Bay St. Louis, 1930. microfilm at the Mississippi Department of Archives and Kis.or - 10, GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Verbal Boundary ;:v-^lotion j The nominated property is label 1^ “Parcel 2“ on the accompanying property plat map* Boundary Justification: Boundary lines follow the pro^.rtv l\. ■- the parcel of land upon which the nominated resource is locate-:, the accompanying map.
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