Preservation in Mississippi

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• New Deal on UM Campus: Kennon Observatory

  By Suzassippi on May 21, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  …conditions in Mississippi were worse than at any time since the Civil War (Harry Hopkins, 1936, Spending to Save: The Complete Story of Relief).  With a state government in bankruptcy, Mississippi welcomed the federal funds that finally began to trickle down… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-20-2013

  By JRGordon on May 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Just a handful of stories from around the state this week: News out of Corinth is the report that an unauthorized demolition in the Historic District was halted because the owner did not have the proper permits to tear down the building. … Read More ›

• Mississippi Hills

  By ELMalvaney on May 17, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Take a little time as you sip your Friday morning or afternoon beverage to watch the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area’s promotional video. Maybe you’ll catch sight of a place you want to go visit in person.

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Jacob Thompson’s Home

  By ELMalvaney on May 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VI (1902). Jacob Thompson’s Home Among the historic homes of Mississippi in ante-bellum days there were none more… Read More ›

• Concrete Blocks of McComb

  By ELMalvaney on May 15, 2013 • ( 13 )

  

  As you know, we at MissPres are fascinated by concrete block and all the forms it took before it became boring old cinder block. Lately, I was driving around McComb and noticed a number of very finely detailed concrete-block houses,… Read More ›

• Lewis Hall: The New Deal on the UM Campus

  By Suzassippi on May 14, 2013 • ( 9 )

  

  Ya’ll all know I’ve been fascinated the past few months with the New Deal architecture.  I was recently lunching with a history professor and telling her about this new passion and she exclaimed, “I was shaped by the New Deal!”… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-13-2013

  By JRGordon on May 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  While much of the news around the state this past week was centered around the municipal elections most communities held this week, but we managed to find a good number of preservation stories this week as well. We’ll start off… Read More ›

• Mississippi by Air: Natchez-Vidalia Bridge

  By ELMalvaney on May 10, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  After Suzassippi’s recent post about the New Deal Natchez-Vidalia Bridge and its toll plaza, I realized I had a postcard that would show the relationship better than we can see today with the new highway right-of-ways.

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Malmaison

  By ELMalvaney on May 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VI (1902). For more about Malmaison and its tragic loss to fire, see Lost Mississippi: Malmaison. Malmaison Malmaison,… Read More ›

• How Paul Rudolph gave Vicksburg a Brutal piggyback

  By Thomas Rosell on May 8, 2013 • ( 23 )

  

  The other day I was surfing the Society of Architectural Historians Digital Resources webpage scoping out all the neat links.  As I checked out the pages I keep my eagle eye out for Mississippi connections. So I was very excited… Read More ›

• Village Apartments: Mid-century surviving on Ole Miss campus

  By Suzassippi on May 7, 2013 • ( 9 )

  

  Whether you call it a masonry screen or a concrete block screen, I sort of fell in love with them first when Malvaney (not the original) wrote In Praise of Masonry Screens.  Then, Thomas Rosell whetted my appetite with a little Screen… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-6-2013

  By JRGordon on May 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Preservation Month! A couple of our stories relate to events being held this month – some specifically noting that they are for Preservation Month, others that aren’t, but are still in pretty cool historic places. First up is this… Read More ›

• Updating two MissPres Architectural Words of the Week

  By Thomas Rosell on May 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  If you are like me you are always searching for examples of past MissPres Architectural Words of the Week. I recently found two that will hopefully get all y’all’s creative juices flowing for the weekend. The Standard Oil Building in… Read More ›

• Miss Pres Architectural Word of the Week: English Bond

  By Thomas Rosell on May 3, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  AWOTW is back this week!  I had a word request from our very own E.L. Malvaney. Sent along with this image was the following text: “To get the ball rolling again with requests for word of the week, Susasippi’s Hazelhurst… Read More ›

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Wexford Lodge (Shirley House)

  By ELMalvaney on May 2, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VI (1902). This post is particularly timely, since we are now in the midst of the 150th anniversary… Read More ›

• Cruise the Capital, See Preservation In Action!

  By ELMalvaney on May 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Monday, May 13, 9:30 a.m.–noon at the Old Capitol Museum. Cruising the Capital. Join architectural historian Todd Sanders for a tour of Jackson by trolley. A box lunch and discussion of Jackson preservation projects will follow at the Old Capitol Museum…. Read More ›

• Rural Mississippi–From Early Days to Present

  By Suzassippi on April 30, 2013 • ( 16 )

  

  The mural by Lucile Blanch in the Tylertown post office can claim something that few other post offices can.  Not only did the artist (also known as Lucille Blanch, Lucile Lunquist Blanch, Lucile Lundquist-Blanch,  and Lucille Lundquist-Blanch) actually paint the… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-29-2013

  By JRGordon on April 29, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  April is wrapping up quickly – which means that Preservation Month will soon be here. If any Miss Pres readers have events to share for our special month – let us know and we’ll get them on the calendar. One… Read More ›

• Preservation Grants Awarded by MDAH

  By JRGordon on April 26, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  We’ll have our regular News Roundup on Monday, but this was a story that we wanted to single out to share with the MissPres world.  Thanks to our friends at MDAH for allowing us to share this release – and… Read More ›

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Kirkwood

  By ELMalvaney on April 25, 2013 • ( 2 )

  Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VI (1902). Kirkwood In the northeast corner of Madison county is Kirkwood, the home of Gov. McWillie. In… Read More ›

• New Capitol Crowded, AG Camps in Lt. Gov’s Office

  By ELMalvaney on April 24, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Whenever a large new building is built, or we move into a huge new house, two or three times bigger than we have ever had, there’s a period of delusion in which we can’t see how we will ever fill… Read More ›

• Dedicated to the People: Natchez-Vidalia Bridge

  By Suzassippi on April 23, 2013 • ( 7 )

  

  On making my first trip to Natchez several years ago, I was curious as to why there was a circular “park” just before one crossed the Mississippi bridge to Vidalia.  It is next to the tourist information building, and I… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-22-2013

  By JRGordon on April 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Just because I took a week off from doing a roundup doesn’t mean that the news took a break.  Events are still on the calendar – and I hope that in the next round up we get to share a… Read More ›

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Concord

  By ELMalvaney on April 18, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VI (1902). Concord, the old residence of the Spanish governors, was situated about three miles east of the… Read More ›

• Presentations from Preservation in Economic Development Conference

  By Thomas Rosell on April 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  While not breaking news, I learned this week that shortly after the April 2012 Power of Preservation in Economic Development Conference, the Mississippi Heritage Trust made available on their website several of the presentations given at that conference in Ocean… Read More ›

• Natchez City Auditorium: Another New Deal building still benefitting Mississippi citizens

  By Suzassippi on April 16, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Natchez’ 1938-39 auditorium was a product of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, Project number 1350 in Mississippi (Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory database).  Its “broad, hexastyle pedimented Doric portico” (which is an architectural term… Read More ›

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