Noah Webster Overstreet

Noah Webster Overstreet FAIA (1888–1973) was an American architect in practice in Jackson, Mississippi from 1912 to 1968.

[1][2] According to the Mississippi Encyclopedia, few architects had as pronounced an impact on Jackson, Mississippi, the state capitol, in the early twentieth century as Overstreet who "worked for over fifty years, producing a large body of commanding institutional and large-scale commercial work.

Overstreet formally retired from the firm effective December 31, 1968, which was succeeded by the Ware, Lewis Partnership on January 1.

[7] The best known work of the successor firm is the Charlotte Capers Archives and History Building in Jackson, begun in 1969 and completed in 1971.

Robert K. Overstreet was also an architect and worked for his father in Jackson from 1946 to 1952 before moving to San Francisco.

[10] In addition to his professional affiliations Overstreet was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Kappa Alpha Order and the Newcomen Society of the United States.

The Franklin County Courthouse in Meadville , completed in 1914.
The Mississippi Building at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition , completed in 1915.
The Pontotoc County Courthouse in Pontotoc , completed in 1916.
The former Gulfport High School , in Gulfport , completed in 1923.
The Rankin County Courthouse in Brandon , completed in 1925.
The Prentiss County Courthouse in Booneville , completed in 1926.
The First Baptist Church in Jackson , completed in 1927.
The North Church Primary School in Tupelo , completed in 1938.
Columbia High School in Columbia , completed in 1938.