Comments on: The Story of Mississippi’s New Capitol: Hiring an architect

By: A Rosetta Stone and Truth about the Dome? « Preservation in Mississippi

A Rosetta Stone and Truth about the Dome? « Preservation in Mississippi — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:04:29 +0000

[...] Stone may have been under our digital noses on MissPres for over a year. In the January 2010 post “The Story of the Mississippi’s New Capitol: Hiring and Architect,” Malvaney reprinted a 1902 Report to the State Legislature by building committee chairman Governor [...]

By: From the Archives: Critiquing the New Capitol Designs (1900) | Preservation in Mississippi

Tue, 24 May 2011 11:02:22 +0000

[...] set the stage (and some of this is reported in “The Story of Mississippi’s New Capitol,” the State House Commission had announced their intention to hire an architect and invited [...]

By: ELMalvaney

ELMalvaney — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:15:16 +0000

I wondered that too–I’ve never seen them, but then again, I haven’t spent much time looking for them. Presumably, if they exist they’d be at the state archives.

By: JRGordon

JRGordon — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:39:47 +0000

Wow – a consultant from DC who’s fees and costs were less than $500 . . . that’s incredible.

I don’t suppose that the non-winning designs are still available anywhere. I think it’s always fun to see what COULD have been built.

By: ELMalvaney

ELMalvaney — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:18:30 +0000

And there Bernard Green is–thanks for that link!

You MUST go back to the Jefferson Building–and if possible you should find something to research there. It doesn’t take much to get your library card, and when you do, you can go right into the main reading room, which is one of the most amazing spaces I’ve ever spent time in. Well worth whatever effort it takes to get there.