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 ›
Greenville 
“Harping” On About Water Meter Covers
With carnival over for another year I’ve bagged up all my beads and recycled them. But I have one throw this year that I’ll be holding on to. On Joe Cain day (is it Joe Cain day if it’s not… Read More ›
The Living New Deal Project
The Living New Deal Project, University of California-Berkeley, is an ambitious project with two primary goals: to map and describe every New Deal Project in the United States in one location, easily accessible to people, and to publicize how we… Read More ›
Shelby Foote on Mount Holly
I recently read through the Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy (1997) and came across this interesting little tidbit from Shelby Foote about Mount Holly south of Greenville, which had been owned by his grandfather after the Civil War:… Read More ›
National Register Historic Districts 2012
As you know, National Register listings can be either individual places, as shown in yesterday’s post, or larger groupings of buildings known as historic districts. Historic districts can be as small as a handful of houses in a rural community… Read More ›
National Register Listings (Individual) 2012
The National Park Service oversees the National Register of Historic Places, the most popular tool nationally for recognizing historic properties. According to the NPS: The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy… Read More ›
Happy Hanukkah Y’all
Hanukkah begins tomorrow at sun down. In celebration of the festival of lights I’ve gathered some photos from the MDAH Historic Resources Database of some of Mississippi’s cultural sites associated with the Jewish faith. Along with the places of worship featured… 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 Architectural Word of the Week: Y-Tracery
Time for another MissPres Architectural Word of the Week! If you want to check out any previous word you can do that here. As always our example photographs come from the MDAH Historic Resources Database. This week’s word is typical… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 10-1-2012
Not a lot of preservation news around the state in recent weeks – so I have a short roundup to start your October. We’re going to start in Greenville. One of our last roundups had a story about their new… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 9-10-2012
With Isaac cleared out and the nicer temperatures settled in, I’d say it’s the perfect time to venture around the state to see some cool old places. Speaking of Isaac – judging from the lack of news, I’d say our… Read More ›
Mississippi Architect, August 1964: Greenville Motor Bank
The August 1964 issue of the Mississippi Architect magazine features a building type that I hadn’t even noticed on the landscape until Thomas Rossell started pointing it out to me: the motor bank, better known to us today as the… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 7-9-2012
With the holiday this week, and the big news being Ceres Plantation (which Malvaney covered in a single post) I wasn’t sure we were going to get enough news for a round-up this week – but we did. Starting off… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 6-11-2012
Wow – can’t believe it’s June already. Despite the heat, there are some things on the MissPres Calendar to check out – including a two day “Historic Preservation Boot Camp” held by our friends at MDAH. Been a while since… Read More ›
Vacation Postcards: Gilhara Motor Hotel, Greenville
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Dentil
This is our fourth MissPres Architectural Word of the Week. We are moving right along through the alphabet with our past words having been Abacus, Bracket, and Corbel. Have you been keeping an eye out for these elements like I… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 11-21-2011
Since I can’t resist the joke – this week’s Roundup is stuffed with tidbits from around the state . . . Now that the joke’s out of my system, let’s get to the actual news. First, wonderful news from the… Read More ›
Vacation Postcards: King’s Rest Modern Court, Greenville
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Travelling by Trolley in Mississippi: Greenville
Today’s post is Chapter 2 in our series re-printing Frank Brooks’ “Travelling by Trolley in Mississippi: Stories about Streetcars.” View other posts in the series at the “Streetcars” tab. ———————————————————— Judging from the information I was able to gather, Greenville’s… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 9-13-2011
The nicer temps last week made me yearn for Fall – and I hope the weather is nice for all of us to plan trips to Fall Pilgrimages that are on the calendar and/or to see places likely to end… Read More ›
Mississippi River Flooding Update
Preservation related news around Mississippi was light since our last round-up, which would normally mean Malvaney would catch us all up on the blogosphere. Instead, however, one of our friends at MDAH, Vicki Myers, is giving us at MissPres some… Read More ›
2011 CLG Grants Announced
I had a quiet Easter and enjoyed getting outside in the beautiful late Spring weather. Take advantage of it while it lasts, because it won’t last much longer. Over the weekend, I checked in on the MDAH website and found… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Modernism in the Mississippi Delta
One thing that surprised me when I moved to Mississippi and ventured into the Delta–a place that I had understood from various news stories was a place that time forgot–was how much the region had changed over the latter half… Read More ›
Before and After: Coleman High School, Greenville
You may remember back last summer around this time when I was doing the Book Quotes about Hitchcock and Johnson’s The International Style, I posted this old postcard of Coleman High School in Greenville. I was in Greenville recently and… Read More ›
New Internet Resources for MissPresers
While lounging around on vacation last week, and when not sitting on the white sandy beaches (NO OIL!!) of Northwest Florida (this has been a non-paid advertisement for the Gulf Coast tourism industry), I had a chance to catch up… Read More ›
The Beauty of Modernist Storefronts
I admit I sometimes spend a good amount of money on a book that 99.999% of the population wouldn’t pay two cents for. I found one such book on a trip to Cincinnati a while back. Published in 1946, it’s… Read More ›
