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NHL Photo Contest 2013
It’s that time of year for the annual National Historic Landmark Contest! If you’re going to a Pilgrimage, or if you’re just hanging around Jackson, you have the chance to take a winning shot of an NHL. So far, we… Read More ›
MissPres Word of the Week & Friday Fun: Screen Block Bingo Sheet
I thought with carnival coming to its crescendo this upcoming week it might be fun to have a contest to go along with our word this week. Mr. Cyril Harris defines our word in the 2006 edition of his Dictionary… Read More ›
Name This Place 10 – The Results
Oops – I meant to post the results Friday night – but the evening and then the weekend got away from me. Friday’s Name This Place photo was a great source of our Word of the Week Terms. It was… Read More ›
Name This Place 10.5
It’s the last day of our latest Name This Place! Yesterday, we had the iconic Illinois Monument in the Vicksburg Military Park (1906, William Le Baron Jenney as the architect – although I think if anyone had ventured to the… Read More ›
Name This Place 10.4
Yesterday was an interior shot of Hawkins Junior High in Hattiesburg. 1951, N.W. Overstreet & Associates as the Principal Architect. The atrium space has a very cool Mushroom Capital column and is a good use of Terrazzo in the floor… Read More ›
Name This Place 10.3
Well, I didn’t fool anyone again yesterday. Yesterday was the Chapel of Memories at Mississippi State. 1966, Dean & Pursell and featuring Flemish Bond in the alter details. ThomFred thought it was a softball and quickly IDed the building. CRPIII… Read More ›
Name This Place 10.2
I pitched a hanging curve yesterday that was knocked out of the park by you savvy MissPresers. Yesterday was the Citizen’s National Bank building in Meridian. 1968, Richard B. Clopton and featuring a Hyperbolic Paraboloid Shell design with it’s roof. … Read More ›
Name This Place: 10.1
And we’re off:
Name This Place 10.0: Architectural Word of the Week Edition
It’s been a little while since we’ve done our little online gameshow Name This Place. Last time, Thomas took home the honor of *Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire* with his knowledge of doors. At the end of the week, we’ll know who… Read More ›
!["White Arches" [Harris-Banks House], Columbus, Lowndes County, Photo by Jennifer Baughn, MDAH 04-10-2009. Retrieved 08/20/2012 from Mississippi Historic Resources Inventory (HRI)](http://misspreservation.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/white-arches.jpeg?w=120&h=120&crop=1)
MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Quatrefoil
Time for another MissPres Architectural Word of the Week. As we move right along through the alphabet, you can check out our past words here. This week’s word is a Gothic and Renaissance (both original and revival) architecture staple, but… Read More ›
A Little Contest: Like a Ton of (Concrete) Bricks
So this morning we had a mini contest about a material that is on the primary facade of a building on 28th Avenue in downtown Gulfport. All the answers were pretty spot on but the answer that contained all the… Read More ›
A Little Contest
A while back at Preservation In Pink Kaitlin had a little quiz to identify a specific material, which turned out to be plaster scored to give the appearance of ceramic tile. I thought that it would be fun to have… Read More ›
Wanted: Mississippi NHL Photos
The National Park Service has announced its annual National Historic Landmark photography contest on Flickr for 2012. For all you shutterbugs out there in MissPres territory, it’s a great time of year to get out and capture the essence of… Read More ›
New Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire!
I fully intended to pronounce the winner of last week’s Name This Place Contest: The Doors edition on Friday evening while it was fresh on everyone’s mind. But first the siren song of crystal clear Spring weather called me outside… Read More ›
Name This Place 9.5.1
We’ve reached the final innings of this week’s Name This Place contest. Harry Caray has sung Take Me Out to the Ballgame, but there’s still game to be played. Yesterday, gstone grabbed the first post of the day, Lexington’s Asia… Read More ›
Name This Place 9.4.2
This is my knuckleball for the week. Hint: These doors have been on MissPres before.
Name This Place 9.4.1
New MissPreser Thomas grabbed the lead in this week’s Name This Place contest, correctly identifying the doors at both St. John’s Episcopal in Ocean Springs and the back entrance at Rosalie. For a while I thought I might have stumped… Read More ›
Name This Place 9.3.1
The Name This Place contest heated up yesterday. The last post of the day, Jacinto Courthouse, which is on the 101 Places list, turned out to be the stumper for the day, with a late-night entry by Belinda winning the… Read More ›
Name This Place 9.2.1
In yesterday’s exciting and confusing Name This Place, Suzassippi, aka Ms. Early Bird, grabbed a bonus point for correctly identifying Longwood in her 4:55 AM answer to the first-ever pre-dawn Name This Place post. Today, I promise not to screw… Read More ›
