Bailey Magnet High School, originally known as Bailey Junior High School, is a high school in Jackson, Mississippi (USA). The current principal of Bailey Magnet High School is Calvin Lockett.
The mascot of Bailey Magnet is the Mighty Knights.
Built in 1938, Baily Magnet's art-deco building has been marveled as an architectural wonder. It was recently voted as a top architectural site by the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects. A...
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Bailey Magnet High School, originally known as Bailey Junior High School, is a high school in Jackson, Mississippi (USA). The current principal of Bailey Magnet High School is Calvin Lockett.
The mascot of Bailey Magnet is the Mighty Knights.
Built in 1938, Baily Magnet's art-deco building has been marveled as an architectural wonder. It was recently voted as a top architectural site by the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects. According to the Washington Post, its Architect, A. Hays Town, while employed at J.W. Overstreet designed the building & it "made the cover of a 1938 Life magazine for the school's forward look and his revolutionary technique of formed-in-place concrete", with the marvel lying "in the details" which include "carved stone reliefs of Andrew Jackson (the...namesake [of the city of Jackson]) with his troops and Chief Pushmataha with his braves, allies in the Indian wars," at the front footsteps of the building. The halls are terrazzoed and the...
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