MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Month: May 2013
Vacation Postcards: Pinehurst Hotel, Laurel
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: Sea Isles Hotel Court, Gulfport
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: Washington Court, Natchez
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Briber Gibson, the Hustling Contractor REVEALED!
One of the things I love about MissPres is that it allows one person who has a tiny bit of information about Mississippi’s architectural history to throw it out there and see if others have other tiny bits of information that… Read More ›
Deupree’s Historic Homes: “Blue Mountain”
Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VI (1902). Blue Mountain Blue Mountain Home was built by Frederic Brougher, a pioneer of Tippah county, a… Read More ›
A Hustling Contractor and the Governor of Mississippi
Schemes and scams by unscrupulous hucksters are nothing new as we’ll see in today’s post. The American Architect and Buildings News reported about one such hustle that occurred during the 1900 bid opening of the New Capitol. A Hustling Contractor… Read More ›
New Deal on UM Campus: Kennon Observatory
…conditions in Mississippi were worse than at any time since the Civil War (Harry Hopkins, 1936, Spending to Save: The Complete Story of Relief). With a state government in bankruptcy, Mississippi welcomed the federal funds that finally began to trickle down… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 5-20-2013
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 ›
Mississippi Hills
Take a little time as you sip your Friday morning or afternoon beverage to watch the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area’s promotional video. Maybe you’ll catch sight of a place you want to go visit in person.
Deupree’s Historic Homes: Jacob Thompson’s Home
Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VI (1902). Jacob Thompson’s Home Among the historic homes of Mississippi in ante-bellum days there were none more… Read More ›
Concrete Blocks of McComb
As you know, we at MissPres are fascinated by concrete block and all the forms it took before it became boring old cinder block. Lately, I was driving around McComb and noticed a number of very finely detailed concrete-block houses,… Read More ›
Lewis Hall: The New Deal on the UM Campus
Ya’ll all know I’ve been fascinated the past few months with the New Deal architecture. I was recently lunching with a history professor and telling her about this new passion and she exclaimed, “I was shaped by the New Deal!”… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 5-13-2013
While much of the news around the state this past week was centered around the municipal elections most communities held this week, but we managed to find a good number of preservation stories this week as well. We’ll start off… Read More ›
Mississippi by Air: Natchez-Vidalia Bridge
After Suzassippi’s recent post about the New Deal Natchez-Vidalia Bridge and its toll plaza, I realized I had a postcard that would show the relationship better than we can see today with the new highway right-of-ways.
Deupree’s Historic Homes: Malmaison
Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VI (1902). For more about Malmaison and its tragic loss to fire, see Lost Mississippi: Malmaison. Malmaison Malmaison,… Read More ›
How Paul Rudolph gave Vicksburg a Brutal piggyback
The other day I was surfing the Society of Architectural Historians Digital Resources webpage scoping out all the neat links. When checking out the pages I always keep my eagle eye out for Mississippi connections. So I was very excited… Read More ›
Village Apartments: Mid-century surviving on Ole Miss campus
Whether you call it a masonry screen or a concrete block screen, I sort of fell in love with them first when Malvaney (not the original) wrote In Praise of Masonry Screens. Then, Thomas Rosell whetted my appetite with a little Screen… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 5-6-2013
Happy Preservation Month! A couple of our stories relate to events being held this month – some specifically noting that they are for Preservation Month, others that aren’t, but are still in pretty cool historic places. First up is this… Read More ›
Updating two MissPres Architectural Words of the Week
If you are like me you are always searching for examples of past MissPres Architectural Words of the Week. I recently found two that will hopefully get all y’all’s creative juices flowing for the weekend. The Standard Oil Building in… Read More ›
Miss Pres Architectural Word of the Week: English Bond
AWOTW is back this week! I had a word request from our very own E.L. Malvaney. Sent along with this image was the following text: “To get the ball rolling again with requests for word of the week, Susasippi’s Hazelhurst… Read More ›
Deupree’s Historic Homes: Wexford Lodge (Shirley House)
Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VI (1902). This post is particularly timely, since we are now in the midst of the 150th anniversary… Read More ›
Cruise the Capital, See Preservation In Action!
Monday, May 13, 9:30 a.m.–noon at the Old Capitol Museum. Cruising the Capital. Join architectural historian Todd Sanders for a tour of Jackson by trolley. A box lunch and discussion of Jackson preservation projects will follow at the Old Capitol Museum…. Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 