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ARCHITECTURAL INFLUENCES 1780-1970 Continued
24.	119 Washington Street - McDonald House - This house dates from
around 1910 and is the only good example of what was very popularly and nationally known as the Shingle Style. The angles, projections, the textured shingles, the barge rafter ends all are excellent examples of this style. The stone work though not native to this part of the country is nevertheless characteristic of this design. Only the screening of the . front porch detracts from the purity of this example.
25*	200 block South Second Street - Bay Saint Louis City Hall - Built
in 1905 from designs by the eminent New Orleans firm of Diboll and Owens, Ltd. The drawing on this page is a reproduction of the front elevation from the original blue prints of this building in the writer's collection. The style is early Neo-Classic and the classic portico and leaded glass entrance transom are excellent examples of the period. Unfortunately the handsome cupola destroyed in Hurricane Camille has not been replaced.
26. Railroad at Second Street - The three houses side by side on the north side of the railroad tracks and east of Second Street are little noticed but very interesting structures. They were built in the 1890s by Eugene Ray a "free man of color". They are Queen Anne style - not very distinguished but almost unchanged from a picture in the 1895 "Along the Gulf". Porch screening on the second and third houses are distracting. The painting of the middle house to accentuate the design is characeristic of the period though the green tones are not quite true to the original.
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