In Bay St. Louis there is a new Blues Trail Marker! It’s so new no info about the marker is up on the Mississippi Blues Trail website as of this post. But not to fear Preservation in Mississippi’s got ya… Read More ›
Month: July 2011
USS Mississippi Past and Present
If you’ve ever wandered about the grounds of the New Capitol, you might have spotted an odd sort of concrete planter on the northeast corner of the block (opposite from the much more grant Monument to the Women of the… Read More ›
Arcadia’s Gulfport Book
The Sun-Herald announces a new Images of America book for Gulfport.
Hot Coffee Cooling?
A while back I was going from Mt. Olive to Laurel, and decided to take the back road, County Road 532, which goes through the exotically named Covington County community of Hot Coffee. Hot Coffee isn’t an incorporated town, and… Read More ›
Caillavet Street Bridge 1926-2011
It happened with so little fanfare that hardly anyone seemed to notice the demolition of the Caillavet Street bridge. This bridge once carried Caillavet Street to the north shore of back bay where Biloxi’s Caillavet Street became Central Avenue in… Read More ›
Old Glory
The Peoples Bank of Biloxi, Biloxi Miss. Built 1913-1914
Books about The City
Excellent review of books about the city and urbanism in the New Yorker.
Linking Around for the Long Weekend
Technically this isn’t a blog roundup post, since it covers mostly out-of-state newspaper and other journalistic sources, so just consider it a way to catch up on some interesting reading during your long weekend. Here’s a story from Architectural Record… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 