The gas well explosion this week in Smith County reminds us of the dangers of any industrial process. A gas explosion more than 110 years ago gives some insight as to why I haven’t been able to find much information on… Read More ›
Month: January 2015
Crossing the Pascagoula Twenty Years Apart
To shake out the winter dust and get on the road I took a trip to George County. I had several stops to make but I had two destinations with a common thread: crossing the Pascagoula River. The first stop on… Read More ›
Mississippi Unbuilt: A Holabird & Roche Capitol
You may recall a 2012 post, “Mississippi Unbuilt: 1897 New Capitol,” about a proposed New Capitol for Mississippi, designed by the Memphis firm Weathers and Weathers, that was never built although it received full-page treatment in January 1897. Perhaps the… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-26-2015
You know what a two-week gap in news roundups means? Lots of catch-up! ———————————————— The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation recently gave a $2.5 million gift to the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, now under construction… Read More ›
Go Back to Architecture School (for a day or two)
Millsaps College has announced its newest round of Community Enrichment classes, and there’s a full slate of topics of interest to MissPresers. Pick one or more and head back to school for a few days–what else do you have to… Read More ›
Update on Mississippi Landmark Status for the Meridian Police Department
Although the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees voted to place the Meridian Police Station under consideration for Mississippi Landmark status in October 2014, it did not bring up the request to designate the Meridian Police Department as a Mississippi Landmark… Read More ›
Smokestacks: The nitty gritty or work of art?
Once soaring symbols of the Industrial Revolution and material progress, smokestacks later became the poster kids of environmental degradation. Today, legions of artists, urban planners and preservationists are seeking to change those carbon chugging chimneys from sooty to beauty. (Smokin’… Read More ›
MLK in Jackson, 1963
“The first “legal” civil rights march in the history of Mississippi. It was clear we were going to march come Hell, Blood, or Mississippi — and we did: 6,000 of us.” Question for Jacksonians–what street is this?
Twin Domes: Arkansas’ State House Commissioners Visit Mississippi
Well, it’s been a long time since we heard of our old friend George Mann, the architect of the Arkansas Capitol, and his nemesis, George Donaghey, so when I spied this little article in the Daily Clarion Ledger, May 21, 1903,… Read More ›
Architect Pics: Sidney V. Stratton
With winter’s cold weather upon us it might be fun to think of a warm weather vacation. On the other hand, imagine escaping the August heat of Mississippi and traveling to Atlantic City, New Jersey. That’s what amateur photographers and brothers Robert Livingston… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-12-2015
How about a little news roundup to get us back into the news in this New Year? There’s hopeful news out of Pascagoula, where the stunning Modern/Googie-style high-rise building built as the Pascagoula-Moss Point and later occupied by Hancock Bank… Read More ›
Going Inside: Lefleur’s Restaurant, Jackson
On Wednesday, MissPres set a new record for most views in a day, 2,383, and most of that was on the strength of one post, Tom Barnes’ Lost Mississippi: Jacksonian Highway Hotel/Lefleurs Restaurant, originally published in May 2011. That post… Read More ›
Old News: No-bid State Contracts
File this nugget from Jackson’s Northside Reporter, Sept. 21, 1961, in the “Nothing New Under the Sun” file and cross-reference in the “Shocked! Shocked!” folder. This editorial was presumably written by Hazel Brannon Smith, who published the Reporter in those days,… Read More ›
Top 11 MissPres Posts Written in 2014
Ladies and Gentlemen, skipping the fanfare here are your Top 11 MissPres Posts written in 2014. See if your favorite story made the list…
Suzassippi’s Mississippi: First 2015 road trip to 101 Places–Elvis Presley birthplace
We haven’t visited a 101 place in a while, so it seemed fitting to jump into the new year with a stop off at one of the most famous of the 101 Places in Mississippi to See Before You Die–the… Read More ›
2014 Annual Report
This annual report didn’t come out promptly on January 1 as I used to insist on doing, but eh, I’m older and wiser now and there was too much football watching and napping to do this holiday weekend to be… Read More ›
National Register 2014: Historic Districts
As you know, National Register listings can be either individual places, as shown in Wednesday’s post, or larger groups of buildings known as historic districts. Historic districts can be as small as a handful of houses in a rural community or… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 