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 ›
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Deupree’s Historic Homes: Jacob Thompson’s Home
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 ›
Deupree’s Historic Homes: Kirkwood
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 ›
Deupree’s Historic Homes: Concord
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
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 ›
Deupree’s Historic Homes: Porterfield, Vicksburg
This paper, so far devoted to descriptions of plantation and suburban homes, will now give a story of a city home, the “Porterfield” home of Vicksburg. It is a large, square-built brick house, three stories high, with long wide halls, three in number, two rooms on each side of the hall on each floor except the first; this has two on the right of the entrance and one, the banqueting hail, on the left, a room 24 by 42 feet, with ceiling 18 feet in height.
Deupree’s Historic Homes: Mount Salus
The building is fashioned after the style of the old English manor-houses: square built, with wide windows, broad, heavy doors, and solid floors. The doors bear the marks of spurs and bayonets made by Grant’s soldiers as they tried in vain to force their way into stores and mansion, when on the raid from Vicksburg to Jackson in 1863.
Architectural Siblings? Jackson, MS and St. Louis, MO J.C. Penney Department Stores
If you’ve ever read the MissPres post The Beauty of Modernist Storefronts, you’ve seen some HABS images of Jackson’s long gone, international style, J.C. Penney department store. This unique building was taken away before it had the opportunity to be appreciated. J.C. Penney Department… Read More ›
Photo Update of the Hub City Lofts
A few weekends back I made a day trip to Hattiesburg to check out the progress made on the adaptive reuse projects of the Carter and Ross buildings. I had been wanting to check these two projects out in person… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-28-2013
Can you believe that it’s the last week of January already? Pretty soon, we’ll be talking about Spring Pilgrimages around the state. We’ve had a ton of news since our last round up – so away we go. We’re going… Read More ›
Abandoned Mississippi: Kings Daughter’s Nurses Home, Greenwood
I was in Greenwood recently and while there I decided to go check on a hunch I had about a scene in The Help. I don’t actually have a great visual memory, but for some reason, this scene reminded me… Read More ›
Webster County Courthouse Burns
We heard early yesterday that the Webster County Courthouse in the tiny town of Walthall caught fire around 2:30 AM and was not completely under control until 7 o’clock. Tom Freeland at the North Mississippi Commenter posted an update yesterday afternoon. Preservation architect… Read More ›
Architectural Twins? Eaton and Walthall Schools, Hattiesburg
Schools are structures that are often duplicated from one set of plans, as seen in some of Malvaney’s early Architectural Twins posts (January 14, 2010 & July 14, 2010). The school board of Hattiesburg was no different when they hired… Read More ›
Mississippi’s Connection to the New York Public Library
Before we get back to our regular programming next week, I thought I might catch up with a few interesting tidbits I’ve come across in my news reading over the holidays. If you’re a new reader, you might not catch… Read More ›
Auld Lang Syne: Mississippi Places Lost in 2012
We lost some very old friends this year and some friends we hardly had a chance to meet. The list is shorter than last year’s, but still contains some significant places that we will no longer have around. As usual,… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 12-21-12
Yes – it’s Friday and we’re doing a news roundup. No – the world did not end. With the holidays and our annual “Year in Review” posts over the next week or so, we figured we’d do one last roundup… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 12-10-2012
After a period of slow news weeks, for the second week in a row we have a lot of news stories to share with MissPres readers. Starting this week in Tupelo with a story that we have been following for… Read More ›
Project updates from Biloxi
Back in June JR Gordon reported on the rehabilitation of the White Pillars restaurant in Biloxi. Since the restaurant has been closed since the early 1990′s my interest was piqued and I went by for a look. Work has been… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 12-3-2012
It’s been nearly a month since I’ve done a news roundup – between slow news weeks (preservation wise) and holidays – but I’m back with a long one this time. Starting in Pascagoula where there is news concerning the Brumfield… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 10-22-2012
Now that our latest Name This Place is done, it’s back to our regular routine around MissPres – which means our Monday morning news round up. Here’s what’s been going on since our last one: First, news out of Natchez… Read More ›
Meridian Federal Courthouse makes the New York Times
Thanks to MissPreser John C for passing along this link to an article in the New York Times this week, “Last Chapter for a Court with a Place in History.” The Meridian Star has recently announced that the federal courthouse… Read More ›
Lost Mississippi: Father Ryan House, Biloxi (1841-2005)
On this 7th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we think of our friends and landmarks on the Gulf Coast and hope to see them on the other side of Hurricane Isaac. Meanwhile, we pause to remember another one of our landmarks… Read More ›
Lost Mississippi: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fuller House
Forty-three years ago today, Mississippi lost one of its handful of Frank Lloyd Wright designs, a house in Pass Christian known as the Fuller House. Located at 317 Sandy Hook Drive, the house, designed in 1951, was considered part of… Read More ›
Gulf Park Update
Intrepid MissPreser and Gulf Coast preservation reporter Mark Davis took note of recent comments on the March 2010 Gulf Park post and went down to the campus, located right on Beach Boulevard in Long Beach, to see the state of things… Read More ›
MissPress News Roundup 8-13-2012
News picked up again this past week, so I’m going to dive right in: First up, the Spain House in Tupelo was in the news again this week. This is a story we’ve been following for a while here on… Read More ›
State Fair Commission Considers Hinds Armory’s Fate
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has offered the Fair Commission emergency stabilization money to save the Hinds County Armory by putting a new roof on the building and making the building weather tight to prevent deterioration until a full rehabilitation can take place.
Abandoned Mississippi: Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital
Now that we have hope for the future of Mound Bayou’s Taborian Hospital, maybe we can renew some energy for Yazoo City’s earlier Afro American Sons and Daughters Hospital, long abandoned and disappearing beneath ravenous vines. Mississippi’s first hospital for… Read More ›
