Stroll through the streets of some of Starkville’s historic districts and Mississippi State University to view the different architectural styles and buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.
Nash Street Historic District
Nash Street National Register District The Nash Street Historic District is locally significant to Starkville and Oktibbeha County because, as the earliest and most intact of the city’s twentieth-century suburban subdivisions, it represents and embodies the transformation of Starkville from a small, agriculturally-oriented trading center to a modern, university-oriented city in response to the substantial…
Overstreet School Historic District
The Overstreet School Historic District is significant to Starkville and Oktibbeha County because it is an important physical expression of the growth and development of Starkville during the period 1870 to 1940, when Starkville changed from a small courthouse village with an agricultural economy to one of Mississippi’s major educational and industrial centers. Additionally, the…
Greensboro Street Historic District
The Greensboro Street Historic District is a highly cohesive and architecturally/historically significant collection of primarily residential structures. The district is important as containing perhaps the highest concentration of residences of the economic and civic leaders of Starkville from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. The original Greensboro Street Historic District was written in 1982…
Cotton District
Adjacent to the Mississippi State University campus, the Cotton District was once the site of a substantial cotton mill and an adjacent area of workers’ homes, shops, and schools. The award-winning redevelopment of this area for student and faculty housing and shopping captures the flavor of the Deep South. It is a national model for the new…
