Comments on: Overstreet Interview, Part 3 http://misspreservation.com/2009/12/17/overstreet-interview-part-3/ It ain't all moonlight and magnolias Mon, 28 May 2012 12:44:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Carunzel http://misspreservation.com/2009/12/17/overstreet-interview-part-3/#comment-2505 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:19:54 +0000 http://misspreservation.com/?p=3628#comment-2505 Don’t know how I missed this comment way back then, but I think she meant Roman as in the Roman Empire.

Thanks for pointing me here; that (Vicksburg) is a great school building.

]]> By: ELMalvaney http://misspreservation.com/2009/12/17/overstreet-interview-part-3/#comment-706 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:28:48 +0000 http://misspreservation.com/?p=3628#comment-706 Lol, that’s funny, but a brilliant insight! It really does have a classic Palladian form when you stop to look.

]]> By: Carunzel http://misspreservation.com/2009/12/17/overstreet-interview-part-3/#comment-705 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:20:58 +0000 http://misspreservation.com/?p=3628#comment-705 As my middle school Latin scholar daughter and I drove by Chester Rhea Underwood’s old house on Pinehurst this weekend, I summarized for her this interview, adding a bit of annotation about International Style philosophy, etc. and quoted Overstreet quoting whomever, “The classical is passe.” The daughter said, staring at the old Underwood place, “It looks a lot like a Roman villa.”

]]> By: ELMalvaney http://misspreservation.com/2009/12/17/overstreet-interview-part-3/#comment-696 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:23:02 +0000 http://misspreservation.com/?p=3628#comment-696 I’ve also always wondered what was in Overstreet’s library, but as far as I know, while many of his firm’s plans ended up at MSU, the library doesn’t exist anywhere, or even a list of what was in it. You’re right, that’s a great line, and really gives alot of insight into his thinking. I never realized how anti-classical he was–or maybe not so much as anti-classical, but believing that its time had passed and it was time to move on.

]]> By: ELMalvaney http://misspreservation.com/2009/12/17/overstreet-interview-part-3/#comment-695 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:22:07 +0000 http://misspreservation.com/?p=3628#comment-695 Yes, it’s not only still standing, but still in use as an elementary school. It’s on North Church Street, north of downtown.

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