Preservation in Mississippi
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Corinth Machinery Building, 1869-2012
As JRGordon noted in last week’s News Roundup, the long-abandoned and highly endangered Corinth Machinery Building, built in 1869, suffered a large partial collapse in that weekend’s heavy storms. As you might remember from a post back in January 2010, there was some movement to try to at least stabilize the building, but nothing ever … Continue reading
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According to the Preserve Holy Springs and Marshall County Facebook page, Joe McGill of The Slave Dwelling Project will be spending the night in two Holly Springs slave quarters during Pilgrimage (April 13-15) and helping visitors understand these historic places. Mr. McGill, a historian with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a Civil War … Continue reading
As I mentioned yesterday, due to my natural soft-hearted nature, our famous and infamous list of 101 Places is actually a list of 106 Places, but I make no apologies. It’s not the list I would have come up with on my own, but that’s the point of doing polls–to find out what other people … Continue reading
Today and tomorrow, we will finally, at long last and after much fretting, announce the list of 101 Mississippi Places To See Before You Die (shortened to 101 Places for convenience). For those of you who weren’t around from start to finish, here’s a short recounting of how we arrived here (for a longer version, … Continue reading
After last week, I thought I might have to change my name and hide for a while with all the bad news to report, but found this week to be better, so I decided it was safe to do the roundup. Been trying to watch for stories on the Corinth Machinery Building, which was part … Continue reading
Today’s post is the second of a two-part series about the life and work of Meridian architect P.J. Krouse by guest author Mark Clinton Davis, reprinted from July 2011 issue of The Reporter of Pearl River County. If you’d like to start from the beginning, see yesterday’s post. ———————— Attention to detail is characteristic of … Continue reading
I spent a little time at the state archives this weekend scrolling through the microfilm newspapers. It was packed Saturday morning, and competition was fierce for the two remaining microfilm copiers in service. One thing I’ve learned in my years of research is that genealogists can fight dirty when it comes to grabbing the microfilm … Continue reading
As you may recall from a few News Roundups back in December and January, the University of Southern Mississippi, which now owns the beautiful old Gulf Park College campus in Long Beach, wants to use its FEMA money to demolish the old administration building, one of the three remaining historic buildings on the campus. When … Continue reading
I thought this post would be especially interesting when read in light of the three-part article last week, which, if you missed, you can pick up at Part 1 here. While looking through the N.W. Overstreet subject file at MDAH a while back, I came across a remarkable letter written by Overstreet himself and addressed to “The … Continue reading
Here we are at the final segment of N.W. Overstreet’s 1940 interview at the Portland Cement Association’s Spring meeting published as “An Architect Reviews Five Years with Architectural Concrete.” If you missed the previous two segments, make sure to read Part 1 where we get Overstreet’s background in architecture and his introduction to concrete construction, … Continue reading
Random Thoughts and Asides
- If you can get past the title, the Curator of Shit blog has several interesting Mississipp-related posts, ranging from "The Glorious Evolution of Messeur Elisaeus von Seutter's Pleasure Grounds at Ivy Cottage, Jackson, Mississippi," to "A typical early 20th century African American urban street, Jackson, Mississippi," to "Pre-FEMA Trailers, Thisildu, Hurricane of 1947, Mississippi." To find other Mississippi-related posts, do a search on the blog for "Mississippi."
- Check out these two recent photo essays on endangered historic places in Mississippi: "Decaying History" on the Modern Southerner blog, and "A beautiful dogtrot house, fading slowly away" on NMissCommentor.
- Check out Simon Jenkins' recent "Five Best Books About The City" in the Wall Street Journal. It includes Jane Jacobs' Death and Life of Great American Cities, our very first Book Quotes series here on MissPres.
- A short fun video for Friday afternoon. Click here to watch! This clip pokes fun at the ridiculous claims the vinyl window industry is known to make. For more info visit vinyl-windows.org
- Catch this NPR story about the completion of a 6-year restoration project of Boston's African Meeting House, the country's oldest African-American church, celebrating its 205-year anniversary.
- Restore Media is offering a free webinar on Classical Architecture! It focuses on the differences between Georgian and Federal style interiors and uses examples from rooms in the Winterthur Museum collection. The webinar lasts one hour and is available on demand, so you can pause it and take notes or fix another glass of tea. With it getting dark so early nowadays this is a great educational activity for an evening! Click to view the Webinar
- Ran across this slide show story about an old post office that a woman turned into her house. It's not in Mississippi, but I thought it was a good example of how creative people can be with historic buildings.
- Check out several interesting video updates on the damage and on-going assessment at the Washington Monument on the National Park Service's webpage.
- Although not really a new concept in the preservation world, the interest in preserving ranch houses and other mid-century buildings caught the attention of the Wall Street Journal in "Plain, Common . . . and Historic?."
- An article in the New York Times discussing the growing movement to retain old windows.
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