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Article Excerpt
LAUREL -- In 1903, when Laurel was booming as the sawmill center of the Pine Belt, Nina and Wallace Rogers built a Prairie-style redwood mansion on Fifth Avenue. Wallace Rogers managed one of Laurel's largest lumber companies.
Their son, Lauren, was five years old at the time and it was expected that he would grow up and become, like his parents, a community leader. When Lauren died at the age of 23, his parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Eastman, decided to build a museum and library in his memory.
The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art (LRMA), which opened in 1923 as Mississippi's first art museum, stands across Fifth Avenue from the home in which Rogers grew up. In 1950, the house passed to Eleanor and Gardiner Green Sr. who were cousins of the Rogers. When the Greens began to consider what to do...
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