Occasional multi-part series highlighting important but usually unpublished or rare documents about Mississippi’s architecture found in libraries or archives.

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“An Architect Reviews Five Years with Architectural Concrete”: 1940 N.W. Overstreet Interview with the Portland Cement Association
(Dec 2009)

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

The Story of Mississippi’s New Capitol
(Jan 2010)

• Hiring an Architect
• Hiring a Contractor
• Git-R-Done
• Barnes and Link Report In

William S. Hull’s 1909 Report on the Governor’s Mansion
(March 2010)

• W.S. Hull’s Governor’s Mansion Report
• The Original Downtown Booster
• An Argument for Preservation
• What They Did in 1909

Bernard Green’s 1900 Critique of the New Capitol Designs
(May 2011)

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

Joseph W. Molitor‘s architectural photographs of Mississippi according to the Columbia University Avery Library records. (March 2011, February 2012)

• Architectural Photographer Joseph W. Molitor 1907-1996
• Photographer Joseph Molitor’s 1952 Trip to Mississippi
• Molitor’s Mississippi: February 3, 1954
• Molitor’s Mississippi: February 8-10, 1954
• Molitor’s Mississippi: February 11, 1954

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