John M. Stone Cotton Mill

The John M. Stone Cotton Mill is a building in Starkville, Mississippi listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[3] Built in 1902, it was a cotton mill named for John Marshall Stone. It was renamed the E.E. Cooley Building after being purchased by Mississippi State University in 1965; afterward, the building was used for almost fifty years to house the university's physical plant.[4] The building reopened in 2015 as an event center named The Mill at MSU.[5]

John M. Stone Cotton Mill
John M. Stone Cotton Mill is located in Mississippi
John M. Stone Cotton Mill
Location600 Russell St.,[2] Starkville, Mississippi
Coordinates33°27′26″N 88°48′09″W / 33.45722°N 88.80250°W / 33.45722; -88.80250 (John M. Stone Cotton Mill)
Built1902
Built byW.T. Christopher
ArchitectStewart W. Cramer
NRHP reference No.75001055[1]
Added to NRHPApril 29, 1975

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ "Contact". The Mill at MSU. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  3. ^ "Historic Resources Inventory Fact Sheet". Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  4. ^ E.E. Cooley Building (John M. Stone Cotton Mill) Archived November 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "History of the Mill". The Mill at MSU. Retrieved February 11, 2022.

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