Campus Architecture
Scheduled to Open November 2010:
Exhibition spaces are provided in the pavilions for the Exhibition Gallery, the Gallery of African American Art, and the George E. Ohr Gallery. Each of the gallery pavilions is residential in scale and in placement. |
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The Mississippi Sound Welcome Center The Welcome Center serves as the primary entry building to the campus. The main volume of the Welcome Center consists of a large brick and glass main hall housing the ticketing foyer, a café, and a small gallery. A plaster element recalling the shotgun vernacular contains a kitchen, administrative offices and support facilities, and a more sculptural element clad in stainless steel panels houses the retail shop. Recalling the shoofly vernacular, the Welcome Center is topped by an overlook that is sheltered by a roof clad in stainless steel panels, providing visitors with views of the campus and the Gulf of Mexico. |
Gallery of African-American Art The Gallery of African American Art is a pavilion clad in brick and stainless steel panels. The Gallery of African American Art provides 1,700 square feet of exhibition space divided between a main gallery and a collection of smaller alcoves intended for the display of smaller works. |
IP Casino Resort Spa Exhibitions Gallery The IP Casino Resort Spa Exhibition Gallery is a white plaster pavilion with a roof and entry canopy clad in stainless steel panels. The Exhibition Gallery provides 1,050 square feet of flexible exhibition space intended to accommodate works of varying size and in varying media. |
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George E.Ohr Gallery (The Pods) The George E. Ohr Gallery consists of four gently sculptural volumes clad in stainless steel panels and connected by a central glass-enclosed gallery. The George E. Ohr Gallery provides 2,900 square feet of exhibition space devoted to the display of pottery created by Ohr in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each of the gallery pavilions includes hardwood floors and receives indirect natural light via skylights. In addition, each of the gallery pavilions includes a front porch where didactic text describing each of the current exhibitions will be displayed, allowing the works on display to be presented in environments entirely free from distraction. |
Center For Ceramics The Center For Ceramics houses the ceramic arts education center, community meeting space, programming space, and administrative offices. The Center for Ceramics is clad in brick, white plaster, and stainless steel panels, and provides a full working studio and work yard joined with large glass overhead doors on the first floor which also houses a brick storage vault. The second floor is community meeting |
The Original Pleasant Reed Home Pleasant Reed (1854-1936) purchased a small lot of Elmer Street in Biloxi in May of 1887 and began construction of his home in the same year, as suggested by receipts from local lumber suppliers in 1887. The house he built was a side hall cottage, with a plan that allowed privacy to the rooms by locating the room-to-room circulation in a hallway along one side of the house. The side hall cottage is a common house type throughout the coastal areas of the nation as well as in the entire Mississippi River Valley region, but side hall cottages are found in greatest concentration in New Orleans, Louisiana and the neighboring areas. |
The two structures were joined to form one building around 1910 when the Reed House was connected to the public water supply, along with much of the rest of the City of Biloxi. The garçonnière or long room above the kitchen was used exclusively as the "dormitory" bedroom for the boys of the Reed family. The addition of the garçonnière created a side hall, camel back cottage creating an upstairs room over the rear of the building. A garçonnière or camelback plan was not an uncommon element in Gulf South architecture of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
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The Pleasant Reed Interpretive Center The Pleasant Reed Interpretive Center is a reconstruction of the original house built as it was built by Pleasant Reed. Working from Reed’s original plans the house was reconstructed on the site of the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art. The interior of the house was changed to accommodate tours and exhibitions while the exterior is an exact model of the house Pleasant Reed built. The Pleasant Reed Interpretive Center is now open by appointment. Click Here for More on the Pleasant Reed House and Pleasant Reed Interpretive Center |
| The Creel House The Creel House was damaged by Katrina, and moved to its current site for renovation. It will open as the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art Neighborhood Center and temporary administrative offices in the Fall of 2009 |
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The Creel House, circa 1895, is a fine example of regional vernacular architecture known as the Biloxi Cottage because the form appeared in more concentrated numbers here than anywhere else on the Gulf Coast. Originally located on Reynoir Street, Biloxi, the house was owned by Jamie Creel. Damaged in Hurricane Katrina, the property was sold to Key Largo Holdings, LLC in August 2006. The house was then donated to the Ohr-O’Keefe and moved to its current address at 370 Meaut Street in 2006. Renovation of the house was made possible by funding designated for restoration of historic structures in the South Mississippi counties affected by Hurricane Katrina. The single story frame house at one time had a hipped lateral wing added to the rear of the house. It was not original to the house and was not moved to Meaut Street. At the façade of the house, a hipped roof perpendicular to the street extends out to cover a gallery that is supported by four turned posts which in turn support sawn scroll brackets and a spindle band. The four main bay facades have on each of the two center bays finely detailed panel and sash entry doors with transom above. Flanking bays each have 2/2 windows. Major construction was done prior to 1914. Creel House Restoration funding provided by:
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