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Author / Creator:	Cawthon, Richard J.
Imprint:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 240 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Church buildings -- Mississippi. Lost architecture -- Mississippi. Church buildings. Lost architecture. Mississippi.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13538649

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ISBN:	9781604734379 160473437X 9781604734362 (cloth : alk. paper) 1282917285 9781282917286 9786612917288 6612917288 1604734361
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-221) and index. English. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	Lost Churches of Mississippi is a collection of archival photographs, postcards, and drawings of more than one hundred notable churches and synagogues vanquished by fire, disaster, development, or neglect. Constructed primarily from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s, these places of worship were often among the most visually prominent and architecturally striking buildings in Mississippi. Storms, floods, tornadoes, flames, bulldozers, or the disbandment of congregations razed what once was hallowed. In Lost Churches of Mississippi, architectural historian Richard J. Cawthon reclaims such n.
Other form:	Print version: Lost churches of Mississippi Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2010. 9781604734362 (cloth : alk. paper)

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