Preservation in Mississippi
W. White
A Few of W. White’s Favorite Things
This Christmas week, the MissPres authors are pulling out some of their favorite posts and re-packaging them with our comments about why they’re our favorites. “Architects of Mississippi: Penn Jeffries Krouse“ “Penn Jeffries Krouse in Pearl River“ These two posts enhance our knowledge about one of Mississippi’s most important architects. P.J. Krouse’s name comes up … Continue reading
Out-of-State Architects and Mississippi Architecture from “The American School and University” 1928-1934
Yesterday’s post, “Mississippi Architects and Architecture from ‘The American School and University’ 1928-1934,” covered Mississippi architects and the school buildings they designed in Mississippi (and occasionally elsewhere). Since architectural practices rarely stay inside state lines, today’s post contains the listings of out-of-state architects who, in the directory of “Architects for Educational Buildings” in The American … Continue reading
Mississippi Architects and Architecture from “The American School and University” 1928-1934
From 1928, the first year the American School Publishing Corporation in New York began publishing The American School and University: A Yearbook Devoted to the Design, Construction, Equipment, Utilization, and Maintenance of Educational Buildings and Grounds, until the Sixth Annual Edition in 1933-1934, the educational architecture journal published a section entitled “Architects for Educational Buildings.” According … Continue reading
Civil Rights Sites from Charles E. Cobb Jr.’s “On the Road to Freedom”
I mentioned in the comments section for “Another Vanishing Civil Rights Landmark” that there was a book (that I could not think of at the time) that has a list of various Mississippi Civil Rights Movement sites. That book is Charles E. Cobb Jr.’s On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil … Continue reading
Corinth and the Limitations of the MDAH
This is the second of two posts on Corinth regarding this situation; the first post was published yesterday. Corinth, a place apart from the rest of Mississippi, on the periphery, in the corner, in the farthest reaches. Corinth is Pluto, and Jackson is the Sun. In some ways, Corinth is not a part of Mississippi, … Continue reading
This is Not Historic: Corinth’s Reclassification of a Historic District
This is the first of two posts on Corinth regarding this situation, the second post will be published tomorrow. Per the October 21, 2010 edition of the Daily Corinthian, the Corinth aldermen met on October 19 and voted to remove an area south of the Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks from the Corinth preservation district. The … Continue reading
Preservation in Mississippi Fall Reading List
I know that we are nearly a month into Fall, the season where the weather entices one to go outside and enjoy the air, but that does not mean I cannot publish a reading list for the season. Of course the South usually has only about two or three weeks of Autumn weather squeezed in between Summer … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 9-13-2010
Let me start out with the most important news of the last week: I am the new Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire. The third try was the charm for me. I led from the first day (which I had done before) but this time did not relinquish the lead. Let me repeat that news: I am the … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 9-4-2010
Since preservation is of course not limited to Mississippi and there is a number of national (or at least non-Mississippi) news articles that have piqued my interest, this is a special edition of the MissPres News Roundup. And here is the news. The first comes from al.com, specifically from The Birmingham News (thank you Mitchell Memorial Library for … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 8-30-2010
This News Roundup will cover some new news and some of the older news that I could not fit into the last Roundup. And here is the news. Let’s start this News Roundup with news from Starkville, an area that is largely ignored by Preservation in Mississippi because the area usually ignores its architectural heritage. … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 8-23-2010
This is a supplemental News Roundup to Malvaney’s Friday post and my first News Roundup since late April. This post is simply to cover the stories that have fallen through the cracks the past few weeks/months. And here is the news. It appears that, although I hope I am not saying this prematurely, the Gulfport … Continue reading
An Alabama-Mississippi Architectural Partnership
Multiple times on Preservation in Mississippi, the Meridian City Hall has been discussed. We all know that it was designed by preeminent Meridian architect P. J. Krouse. Or do we? Well, yes he designed it but the story is much more complicated than that and requires a detour back to 1902. During that year, P. … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 4-25-2010
Welcome back from France, Malvaney. Most of the news that I have found for the past two weeks has concerned various Pilgrimages. It almost seems that every small town in Mississippi has people parading around in hoop skirts and Confederate uniforms. Yet I have noticed no one is re-enacting the experience of being a slave … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 4-10-2010
I have not had the time to sift through newspapers, thanks to end of the semester work, merely search online. Since there is a lot of important preservation news in the major communities, I have been able to pull together a fairly long post. And here is the news. In Bay St. Louis, the Scafidi … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 4-1-2010
And here is the news. Calhoun City’s urban renewal efforts continue. According to the March 25 edition of The Calhoun County Journal, the structure I mentioned in the last News Roundup on the corner of Main St. and Taylor Ave. was razed by the Square PEG. The site will become a “‘park-like’ space with plantings … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 3-27-2010
Saturday Morning, I promised another News Roundup and there is enough news to create another News Roundup. And here is the news. I reported in the 3-12-2010 News Roundup that a group of citizens in Calhoun City has spearheaded a move to clean-up the Calhoun City Square. Unfortunately, clean-up to these citizens equates to demolishing dilapidated … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 3-26-2010
Good Morning MissPres community, I am back in Mississippi. I will start off the post with some scheduling information. This will be the last News Roundup posted by me on a Friday. Due to my schedule (and when the MSU Library receives newspapers), I will now start posting News Roundups on Saturday morning. This week … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 3-19-2010
My apologies for not producing my usual in-depth News Roundup for this week; the normal News Roundup will return next week. Of course, I am on vacation and used some of my vacation time to create last week’s News Roundup, starting a long discussion which brought all the Oxonians out of the woodwork like so … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 3-12-2010
MissPres readers, greetings from Alabama (the current location of yours truly). And here is the news. The Calhoun County Journal reports in the February 25 paper that Calhoun City is beginning a clean up effort of the Calhoun City Town Square. I am all for improving a city but the first sentence of the article … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 3-5-2010
This is my first News Roundup. It will be longer than Malvaney’s News Roundups normally are as I have gathered news from the last several weeks from these papers. Many of these stories are from small town Mississippi newspapers, printing entities that are sans websites. The Friday, February 26 edition of The Bolivar Commercial reported … Continue reading
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