The Coldwater School may not look like much on a gray and raining day, but a closer inspection reveals some nice details. The classroom and auditorium buildings, completed in 1944, were attributed to Edgar Lucian Malvaney (Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory).
Categories: Historic Preservation, Schools
Preservation in Mississippi 
Someone told me that the old town of Coldwater was lost to Arkabutla dam project. Any truth to that?
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From the Times (Hammond, Indiana) 8 August 1940, p. 14: “Town sells out and will move.” Coldwater citizens–every one of them–are getting ready to move for the townsite is going to be flooded. For six years…residents of this little community have argued the point: Shall the century-old town be moved to a new location, or shall U. S. engineers build an encircling levee?…Mayor Smith Cooper anounced that the federal government would buy the town “lock, stock and barrel. We have decided to sell…and we have selected the hilltop on Highway 51, south of the present location, for our new town.”
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The E.L. Malvaney was pretty involved with the moving of Coldwater if I remember correctly.
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In what way? Getting to design all the new buildings?
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I think so and the layout of the new town, moving buildings, etc.
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Must be why he put that school up on the hill with the complex all around it. Looks like I might need to go back to Coldwater.
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I learned about Coldwater and Malvaney from and old article by the Times Picayune. If I can find it I’ll forward it to you.
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You are right, there doesn’t appear to be much here until you look at the details. They are wonderful, like little surprises!
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