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Road in Crane Creek (Table 5. # 30), the property at 19039 Road 546 in Kiln (Table 3, # 22) and the Elizabeth Gerard Home at 919 Old Spanish Trail in Bay St. Louis (Table 1. # 4)
Major retail establishments in Bay St. Louis included Bontemps’ grocery store and McDonald’s general merchandise store, which sold everything from groceries to building supplies. The A and G Theatre, a Spanish Colonial Revival building, was constructed in 1927 and/aces the bay at 150 North Beach Boulevard (Scharff, 1999). Another existing commercial building from this period includes W.A. McDonald’s building supply store at 301 South Toulme Street, built between 1924 and 1930.
A and G Theater building (1927), 150 North Beach Boulevard, Bay St. Louis (FEMA photo 2013).
New education facilities came into existence in this period as well. A new Bay Central High School, a Spanish Revival style building (extant), was erected on Second Street in 1927 (Scharff, 1999). St. Augustine’s Seminary, founded in Greenville, MS in 1920 and moved to Bay St. Louis in 1923, became the only seminary in the country training African American men for the priesthood and as brothers. The first black priests were ordained in 1934. Other resources associated with''the African American community included Gulfside Chautauqua and Camp Meeting Ground, founded in 1923 by Robert E. Jones, the first black Methodist Bishop. At the time, it was the only resort in the Gulf Region open to black Methodists. This facility is still in operation, but Hurricane Katrina destroyed its historic buildings.
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