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re: Oxford Square second story balconies built to look like New Orleans balconies...
Posted on 2/28/21 at 4:48 pm to Cdawg
Posted on 2/28/21 at 4:48 pm to Cdawg
Dan was a true visionary. I love visiting college towns and while Starkville as a whole doesn't really peak much interest, the Cotton District is about as cool an area you will find in any college town.
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Posted on 2/28/21 at 4:51 pm to Fatboy22
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The use of the style in Starkville can mostly be attributed to Dan Camp. He owned a lot of the properties you see in the Cotton District neighborhood of Starkville.
Thank you Fatboy 22! Someone with an inkling of knowledge on here.
Dan Camp built and remodeled a lot of Cotton District properties in the same architectural designs.
I know, because I built apartments within 1/8 mile of the Cotton District and I knew Dan Camp pretty well (even if he was a jackass).
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:55 pm to PanhandleDawg
Dan “I’d rather be in Oxford” Camp
Posted on 2/28/21 at 9:27 pm to PanhandleDawg
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because I built apartments within 1/8 mile of the Cotton District
Which ones? The Balcony or Midtown?
Posted on 2/28/21 at 9:30 pm to HamzooReb
The Cotton district is actually really cool from when I've been in Starkville. Would have loved to frequent the scene if I had gone to MSU
Posted on 2/28/21 at 9:40 pm to TrendingRight
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Oxford did NOT originate the New Orleans "Oxford" architectural look the OP described. Oxford was a patch of Indian trails when New Orleans French Quarter was built. The French Quarter was surveyed and it's 70 block grids laid in 1719. The buildings and designations were designed in Paris in 1721-1722 and built in Louisiana beginning in 1734. Fires destroyed most of the French Quarter in the 1780s and it was rebuilt in the late 1790s. The Town Square in Oxford was built in the 1840s & 1850s, burned during the Civil War and was very slowly rebuilt between the 1870's and 1890's. There is NOTHING original in the Oxford or Starkville flat roof board & batten balcony architecture. They're copies of French architecture most famously built in New Orleans many years before Oxford or Starkville had a single building.
Posted on 2/28/21 at 9:42 pm to DownSouthJukin
New Orleans, Natchez, and Charleston have architecture. Oxford has never been mentioned in all my years in conversation unless somebodies ginger child goes to school in Oxford from one of the 3.
Posted on 3/1/21 at 3:26 pm to HamzooReb
Likely story
Posted on 3/1/21 at 3:33 pm to TimeOutdoors
I'm using this thread as my doctoral dissertation
Posted on 3/1/21 at 3:50 pm to Numberwang
I lived in New Orleans
Posted on 3/1/21 at 7:32 pm to Sparetime
Natchez has some sneaky good homes
Posted on 3/1/21 at 7:53 pm to Numberwang
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have you ever been to New Orleans? Oxford, Mississippi bears no resemblance.
Yeah New Orleans looks like a third world shite hole throughout most of the city.
Posted on 3/1/21 at 8:07 pm to ManBearSharkReb
Posted on 3/1/21 at 8:12 pm to DownSouthJukin
You're fired Jukin
Fired!!!
Fired!!!
Posted on 3/1/21 at 8:14 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
This post was edited on 3/1/21 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 3/1/21 at 8:31 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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I lived in New Orleans
Posted on 3/1/21 at 9:32 pm to Rohan Gravy
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I lived in New Orleans
I had a long term lease in New Orleans.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 7:54 am to DownSouthJukin
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Oxford was the originator of that architecture style. There's a reason its called the "Oxford balcony" in all architecture literature. You can look it up.
New Orleans, and to a lesser degree Starkville, stolt it.
This is some of the funnier shite i've seen recently. how fricking stupid are you?
clearly your ole miss education paid off Posted on 3/2/21 at 8:15 am to DownSouthJukin
I had Covid back in December and for my ten days of fricking quarantine, I rediscovered my love for (and fear of) whiskey
Now I'm still on the whiskey and I come in here in the mornings and look at what I posted the night before and don't even remember posting it
Now I'm still on the whiskey and I come in here in the mornings and look at what I posted the night before and don't even remember posting it
This post was edited on 3/2/21 at 8:18 am
Posted on 3/2/21 at 8:16 am to Hailstate15
i'll allow it Hail 
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