Month: February 2011

Coast Poll Results

By ELMalvaney on February 28, 2011 • ( 3 )

On schedule, our Coast poll shut down around midnight Friday night, with a final total of 4,191 votes. This number is in the range of the Natchez total of 4,502 votes, so it’s good to see so much participation and… Read More ›

Some awfully cool furniture

By ELMalvaney on February 25, 2011 • ( 5 )

Every time I go into the Mississippi Museum of Art, I end up at a glass case right beside the entrance wishing I had brought my camera. The case is called Vitra Design Museum Miniatures Collection and it features a… Read More ›

Builder Pics: M.T. Lewman & Co.

By ELMalvaney on February 24, 2011 • ( 9 )

I supposed most of you have never heard of M.T. Lewman or his son H.L, or their building company, M.T. Lewman & Co. but if you’ve traveled around Mississippi or most any other Southern state, or looked at old postcards… Read More ›

New Book on Black Architect W.A. Rayfield

By ELMalvaney on February 23, 2011 • ( 9 )

Last week, W. White listed some of the architects mentioned in The American School and University publications beginning in the late 1920s. Another architect listed in that same directory but not mentioned last week (because there were no Mississippi buildings… Read More ›

Spring Pilgrimage Time

By ELMalvaney on February 22, 2011 • ( 6 )

JRGordon’s note about the pilgrimage in yesterday’s News Roundup reminded me that it is indeed about that time of year. In fact, with the crazily warm weather we’ve been having, it looks like the pilgrimages better get going soon before… Read More ›

MissPres News Roundup 2-21-2011

By JRGordon on February 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

I think Spring has sprung in the Magnolia State in the past week or so – which makes me very happy. If you’re like me, you’ve been enjoying the weather – but you may have missed some preservation news. Never… Read More ›

We’re halfway through the Coast poll. Do you know where your favorite place is?

By ELMalvaney on February 18, 2011 • ( 4 )

After a fairly slow start, the Gulf Coast poll to help us build our list of 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die has taken off in the last few days, helped apparently by a large contingent of Hancock… Read More ›

Out-of-State Architects and Mississippi Architecture from “The American School and University” 1928-1934

By W. White on February 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

Yesterday’s post, “Mississippi Architects and Architecture from ‘The American School and University’ 1928-1934,” covered Mississippi architects and the school buildings they designed in Mississippi (and occasionally elsewhere). Since architectural practices rarely stay inside state lines, today’s post contains the listings… Read More ›

Mississippi Architects and Architecture from “The American School and University” 1928-1934

By W. White on February 16, 2011 • ( 2 )

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 ›

New Grant Program for Civil Rights Sites

By ELMalvaney on February 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

In case you haven’t seen this post on the MDAH website, they are announcing a bricks-and-mortar grant program for civil rights sites. As you may recall, a few weeks ago W. White ran a very helpful summary list of the… Read More ›

Round the Blogosphere 2-14-2011

By ELMalvaney on February 14, 2011 • ( 3 )

In case you missed the significance of the date in today’s title, it is indeed Valentine’s Day. If you forgot, you still have a chance to recover and to pretend you had been planning a surprise all along. The blogosphere… Read More ›

Vote for your favorite Gulf Coast places

By ELMalvaney on February 11, 2011 • ( 19 )

Well we’ve had a week off from polling, but if we’re going to build a list of 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die, we need to keep at it. Last week we finished off the Natchez poll, and… Read More ›

Oxford Film Festival & Pruitt Igoe

By Thomas Rosell on February 10, 2011 • ( 10 )

The Oxford Film Festival is this weekend! A lot of the films look great though one that stands out is The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History.

Reflecting on the Old Capitol

By ELMalvaney on February 9, 2011 • ( 3 )

Yesterday was the second anniversary of Preservation in Mississippi, but in keeping with the tradition I began inadvertently last year, we will celebrate that grand occasion today instead. Since the very first post on MissPres–typed out on a whim before… Read More ›