A Mississippi Landmark is a building officially nominated by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and approved by each county's chancery clerk. The Mississippi Landmark designation is the highest form of recognition bestowed on properties by the state of Mississippi, and designated properties are protected from changes that may alter the property's historic character. Currently there are 890 designated landmarks in the state. Mississippi Landmarks are spread out between eighty-one of Mississippi's eighty-two counties; only Issaquena County has no such landmarks.
In October 2011, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History removed the .pdf listing from its website, adding a searchable database that is kept up-to-date as new landmarks are designated. This database contains information about many historic buildings in Mississippi, but to return a list of designated Mississippi Landmarks, click the "MS Landmarks" link and enter desired city or county.
Following are the properties listed as landmarks by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History as of August 2009.
- Beauvoir
- Confederate Cemetery
- Confederate Veterans Home Dormitories (non-extant)
- Confederate Veterans Home Hospital (non-extant)
- Hayes Cottage (non-extant)
- Beauvoir Library (non-extant)
- Manager's House (Beauvoir) (non-extant)
- Biloxi City Hall (also Old U.S. Post Office, Courthouse, and Customhouse)
- Biloxi Lighthouse
- Biloxi VA Medical Center buildings
- Biloxi Visitors Center (also Paul W. Brielmaier House) [Destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005]
- Creole Cottage (also First Biloxi Library)
- G.B. Dantzler House (also Robinson-Maloney House) [Destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005]
- Dr. Hiram A. Roberts House (also Joseph William Milner House and Grasslawn)
- Fisherman's Cottage
- Gillis House [Destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005]
- Glenn L. Swetman House completed in 1926 or 1927
- Grasslawn II
- Gulf Coast Center for the Arts (also Old Biloxi Public Library)
- Gulfport Army Air Field Hangar (also FBO Hangar)
- Gulfport City Hall
- Gulfport Firehouse No. 4
- GulfportâÂÂHarrison County Library
- Old Gulfport High School
- Gulfport Veterans Administration Medical Center
- Building 1âÂÂMain Medical Building
- Building 2âÂÂKitchen and dining hall
- Building 3âÂÂWard B
- Building 4âÂÂWard C
- Building 5âÂÂWard D
- Building 41âÂÂInfirmary
- Building 57âÂÂHospital building
- Building 62âÂÂWard G
- Building 63âÂÂChapel
- Building 64âÂÂAdministration Building
- Old Harrison County Circuit Clerk's Office [Destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005]
- Gulfpark Campus, University of Southern Mississippi buildings
- Gulfport Depot (also Gulfport Centennial Museum)
- Magnolia Hotel
- Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum (also U.S. Coast Guard Barracks)
- Henriques-Slay
- Phoenix Naval Stores Office in Turkey Creek Community
- Kimble House
- Legier-Frye House
- Masonic Hall (Long Beach, Mississippi)
- Mississippi Sound Historical Museum (also Gulfport Carnegie Library) built in 1916
- Old Brick House (Biloxi, Mississippi), also known as Biloxi Garden Center
- Old Pass Christian High School
- Old Pass Christian Middle School (also Old J.W. Randolph School)
- Marshal and Fannie Nichols House
- Masonic Hall (Rectitude Lodge No. 323)
- Masonic Hall (Southern Star Lodge No. 500, F&AM) / Hancock Bank
- O. G. Swetman House
- Pleasant Reed House
- Saenger Theater designed by Roy Benjamin it opened in January 1929
- Soria City School
- Town Library [Destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005]
- Tullis-Toledano
- Crawford House [Destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005]
- Tullis Manor (also Philbrick House, Pradat House, and Tullis-Toledano House)
- W.J. Quarles House and Cottage moved from 120/122 East Railroad Street
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