Como in Panola County, Mississippi — The American South (East South Central)
Como Commercial Historic District/Como Local Historic District
Listed on National Register of Historic Places
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, September 18, 2024
1. Como Commercial Historic District/Como Local Historic District Marker
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Industry & Commerce • Religion & Religious Structures. In addition, it is included in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) series list.
Location. 34° 30.864′ N, 89° 56.503′ W. Marker is in Como, Mississippi, in Panola County. It is at the intersection of Main Street and Church Street, in the median on Main Street. The marker is located at the north end of Main Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 311 Main Street, Como MS 38619, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, and in the Mississippi Delta. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
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More about this marker. There is an identical marker in the Main Street median at the south end of Como, at the East Oak Street intersection.
Regarding Como Commercial Historic District/Como Local Historic District. National Register of Historic Places № 08000675.
From the National Register Nomination prepared by David Preziosi, 3/14/2008:
The Como Commercial Historic District is comprised of two streets running in a north-south direction, North Main Street and Elder Frank Ward Street. The district includes mostly commercial buildings with two religious structures, three residential structures, a few small scale agriculturalindustrial buildings, a medical clinic, public library, and municipal buildings. The character of the district is that of a small commercial area that grew around the former railroad depot for Como and as the center of the town providing commercial, municipal, and religious functions. The district has a strong commercial character to it with very similar commercial row buildings of mostly the same scale, massing and detailing.Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, September 18, 20242. Como Commercial Historic District/Como Local Historic District MarkerLooking northwest along Main Street; contributing property Holy Innocents' Episcopal Church is in the background.The town of Como was formed around the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad line that was built through the area in 1856. Thus the development of the commercial area of Como was centered on the former depot for the railroad line and grew from there but never more than three blocks long. Since the town was small the commercial development only occurred on the west side of the railroad tracks with the largest section of residential development occurring on the east side of the tracks with a smaller amount of residential development west of the commercial area. There are two important religious structures in the district built during the period of significance: Holy Innocents Episcopal at 311 North Main Street built in 1872 in the Carpenter Gothic style; and Como Methodist Church at 101 North Main Street built in 1912 in the Neo-Classical Revival style.
Related markers.Click here for a list of markers that are related to this marker.Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, September 18, 20243. Como Commercial Historic District/Como Local Historic District MarkerLooking north through the commercial historic district. This identical marker is at the south end of Main Street.Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, September 18, 20244. Como Commercial Historic District/Como Local Historic District MarkerLooking northwest across Main Street; contributing property Como United Methodist Church is in the background.Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, September 18, 20245. Holy Innocents' Episcopal Church
James B. Cook, architectA contributing property in Como Commercial Historic District. From the National Register Nomination: One-story, generally rectangular plan frame church in a vernacular variant of the Carpenter Gothic style with a steeply pitched front facing gable roof of composition shingles in a random pattern on brick piers with a stucco finish. Both the main roof and the entry porch roof are topped by wooden Celtic crosses. This church was listed separately on the National Register in 1987.Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, September 18, 20246. Como United Methodist Church
John Gaisford, architectA contributing property in Como Commercial Historic District. From the National Register Nomination: One-and-a-half story Neo-Classical religious building with a basilica or Greek cross form. Cross gable roof of composition shingles with a large octagonal wooden dome over the intersection with a metal clad roof topped by a cross on an octagonal cupola with louvered vents. The drum of the dome has arched wood windows with ten lights each. The front facade has a central front facing gable roof with two lower hip roof setbacks. Under the main gable is a recessed entry supported by two Ionic columns in antis. Monumental concrete steps with brick sidewalls to the entry.
Credits. This page was last revised on December 22, 2024. It was originally submitted on December 20, 2024, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 233 times since then and 21 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on December 22, 2024, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
