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| designated_other1_num_position=bottom | location= Meridian, Mississippi | lat_degrees = 32 | lat_minutes = 21 | lat_seconds = 52 | lat_direction = N | long_degrees = 88 | long_minutes = 42 | long_seconds = 2 | long_direction = W | locmapin = Mississippi | map_caption = Location of Threefoot Building in Mississippi | area = | built =1929 | architect= Claude H. Lindsley, principal architect; Frank Fort, associate architect; Threefoot Realty Co. | architecture= Art Deco | added = December 18, 1979 | governing_body = Private | mpsub=(Meridian MRA ) | refnum=79003408 }} The Threefoot Building is an historic office building located in downtown Meridian, Mississippi. Designed by Claude H. Lindsley and completed in 1929 in the Art Deco style, the building at 16 stories is still the tallest in the city. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1979, under the Meridian Multiple Property Submission of buildings contributing to downtown. In 2008 it was recognized by the state as a Mississippi Landmark. The building has been mostly abandoned since the 1990s, following suburban development's drawing off tenants. In 2002 the city started the annual Threefoot Arts Festival, naming it after the city's downtown icon. Plans for redevelopment foundered with changes in city administration in 2009, resulting in the National Trust for Historic Preservation listing the building in 2010 in its annual group of "America's Most Endangered Places." A group of citizens formed the Threefoot Preservation Society in 2013 and have hosted events to increase public interest in the building and support for its renovation. ==History== The 16-story brick structure was developed by and named for the Threefoot family, German-Jewish immigrants who arrived in the mid-19th century and anglicized their name from Dreyfuss ("three foot" in German〔(InterTran - Translation )〕) to join their new American home. Abraham Threefoot began to make a name for the family in the late 1860s.〔 He owned a grocery store on 25th Avenue in mid-1870. It may have been his grocery that was located at the corner of 4th Street and 25th Avenue on the ground floor of what was known as the Grand Opera House. The grocery moved at least once to a different location on the same street in 1884, but sources are unclear if it had three sites or two. The grocery was taken over by Abraham's sons–H. Marshall, Kutcher, and Lewis, collectively known as the "Threefoot Brothers"–after his death.〔 By 1910, sales at Threefoot and Sons exceeded $100,000 per year.〔 When the YMCA building was being constructed, the builders ran into financial trouble, but the Threefoot Brothers donated $35,000 to the project, allowing construction to continue.〔 Just before the beginning of the Great Depression, the company built the Threefoot Building in downtown Meridian on 22nd Avenue adjacent to the Marks-Rothenberg Department Store and the Grand Opera House.〔(ISJL Digital Archive: Meridian, MS )〕 It was the tallest building in the city and admired as a symbol of the city's growth. The office building was finished in 1929, shortly before the stock market crash. A combination of shaky finances and the onset of the Great Depression caused the family's business to cease operation.〔("The Tallest Threefoot Building in Town" ), ''Intelligent Travel'' blog, November 2007〕 The building operated as an office building under different ownership for several decades. Demographic changes followed suburban development, stimulated by highway construction. After Meridian's first suburban mall was built in the 1970s, continued development outside the city drew off tenants and other businesses. By the 1990s, the Threefoot Building had been mostly abandoned. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Threefoot Building」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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