This post is the sixth in a series reprinting the Mississippi Pilgrimage booklet of 1974. See also Natchez Holly Springs Columbus Woodville
Month: March 2014
Restoring Rural Mississippi – Clay County Agricultural High School in Pheba
For most of Mississippi’s history the state has been very rural in the sense that nearly all Mississippians lived in the countryside or in small towns not in cities. For every Vicksburg, Natchez, and Columbus were twenty or more small… Read More ›
Preservation Fail Corrected: Eugene P. Booze House
The Eugene P. Booze house, a “two-story American foursquare” with Colonial Revival detailing provides an excellent illustration of preservation fail, and thankfully, correction on inauthentic renovation (Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory). The c. 1910 home in… Read More ›
Three More Spring Events for Mississippi Preservationists
If you’re looking for somewhere to go other than one of the pilgrimages this Spring, maybe you’ll be interested in one of these events, all of which are dedicated to helping raise funds and awareness for a Mississippi historic building. Cotesworth,… Read More ›
Did Grant sleep here?
From up Oxford way, the Daily Journal reported February 5 that “site of a potential jail expansion may have unappreciated importance to both Civil War history and Jewish history.” Asher Reese has requested the property be designated for a Jewish… Read More ›
Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974–Columbus
This post is the fourth in a series reprinting the Mississippi Pilgrimage booklet of 1974. See also Natchez Holly Springs
Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974–Woodville
This post is the fifth in a series reprinting the Mississippi Pilgrimage booklet of 1974. See also Natchez Holly Springs Columbus
Victory Lap!
It is tremendously rewarding to see a historic building that was once listed as endangered come back from neglect and decay. Those of you who live in the Delta have been watching the progress on the restoration of the Taborian Hospital with… Read More ›
Happy 164th Birthday to Archt. Theodore C. Link!
Monday March 17th, 2014 was the 164th birthday of Mississippi’s New Capitol architect, Theodore C. Link. The biographical portrait that follows was published when Mr. Link was 56 years old and surprisingly does not mention his work in Mississippi. Theodore… Read More ›
Around the Mississippi Blogosphere
It’s been a while since MissPres toured the local blogs to see what is happening in the state, so since I am on travel delay for the time being, I thought a virtual trip to see what’s going on might… Read More ›
Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974–Holly Springs
This post is the third in a series reprinting the Mississippi Pilgrimage booklet of 1974.
Crisis Averted?
Update: Crisis Averted! The Mississippi State Historic Tax Credit had been reauthorized through December 31, 2017. Please be sure to thank your state elected officials for giving us this tremendously effective tool to make historic preservation happen in Mississippi. Historic preservationists had… Read More ›
Mississippi Unbuilt: Alternative appearances for two lost landmarks
I enjoy viewing architectural renderings of buildings. They often show a structure as its designer intended and depict the building at its peak of glory, though often the reality of a situation sets in and prevents that pinnacle design from… Read More ›
Preservation Fail: Beta Theta Pi House
There is an interesting (sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, but generally always disastrous) site called Preservation Fail that I have been following for a while. Apparently, no geographic area holds dibs on preservation failures, and every time I would see one… Read More ›
Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974–Natchez
This post is the second in a series reprinting the Mississippi Pilgrimage booklet of 1974. See also Holly Springs Columbus Woodville Hattiesburg and Gulf Coast Vicksburg Oxford Jackson and Raymond Meridian Carrollton and Sardis
Preservation Is Always In Style
On a recent trip to Jackson, I was introduced to the wacky and wonderful world of CHANE T-shirts. Not being from that part of the state, I don’t understand some of the slogans (Brandon versus Pearl?), but the preservation of… Read More ›
The NYA in Mississippi: Jeff Davis Vocational Building
As we have chronicled before, the National Youth Administration, one of the New Deal Administration programs from the 1930s, constructed some 66 documented and/or conjectured administration, classroom, gymnasium, home economics, shop/band hall and vocational buildings, along with several superintendent and… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 