Month: July 2015

Mississippi Streets: 1960s Neshoba County Fair

By ELMalvaney on July 31, 2015 • ( 1 )

Welcome to Happy Hollow

Follow the Preservation Trail

By Lolly Barnes on July 30, 2015 • ( 3 )

As we approach the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, it is hard to look back over the past ten years without feeling a tidal wave of emotions. Yes, loss and sadness are certainly there, but I find, for myself, that I… Read More ›

Roadside Mississippi: Green Derby Restaurant, Jackson

By ELMalvaney on July 29, 2015 • ( 27 )

Green Derby New Restaurant Being Built A handsome new dining place is under construction in West Jackson to be operated by the Green Derby Restaurant for the Drake Motel. Wise Construction Company of Jackson is building the 4,000 square foot… Read More ›

MissPres News Roundup 7-27-2015

By ELMalvaney on July 27, 2015 • ( 18 )

Remember the good ol’ days when we could take a week or two off from news roundups in the summer and not miss much? Those days are gone, my friend, and things have been hopping, and not in a good way, in the last couple of weeks.

Unbuilt Mississippi: An R.H. Hunt Bank in Biloxi

By Thomas Rosell on July 23, 2015 • ( 9 )

This Unbuilt Mississippi post features what would have been the tallest structure in downtown Biloxi until the construction of the Santa Maria del Mar in the early 1970’s. I was able to find this nugget in a 1908 issue of The… Read More ›

Another One Bites the Dust

By ELMalvaney on July 22, 2015 • ( 9 )

It’s not suspicious at all when a backhoe appears on a Saturday morning behind a historic city-owned building that’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been the subject of intense local debate, has been included on the… Read More ›

Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Hawkins Field Terminal Restoration

By Suzassippi on July 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

Construction began on Jackson’s municipal airport terminal building in 1936, financed by the Works Progress Administration. Currently undergoing extensive renovation in a project supported by the United States Department of Interior, National Park Service, Mississippi Department of Archives and History,… Read More ›

Mississippi Modern Exhibit

By ELMalvaney on July 20, 2015 • ( 7 )

If you find yourself in or near downtown Jackson, be sure to swing by the Old Capitol Museum, where “Mississippi Modern,” a photographic exhibit of Modernist buildings around the state, is on display from July 14 through November 15, 2015. The… Read More ›

Mississippi Streets: 1950s Pascagoula

By ELMalvaney on July 17, 2015 • ( 2 )

See other Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City 1910s Vicksburg 1950s New Albany 1960s Meridian 1930s Camp Shelby

Mississippi Architect, Feb. 1965: River Hills Country Club

By ELMalvaney on July 16, 2015 • ( 2 )

The true, for-real last article from the original Mississippi Architect.

Battered Bay St. Louis Bungalow

By Thomas Rosell on July 15, 2015 • ( 3 )

I had mentioned several weeks ago to reader gstone that I had seen post Katrina photographs of the Craftsman cottage featured in the Bay Bungalow post. Due to ongoing computer problems I am not able to find the photos I… Read More ›

MissPres News Roundup 7-13-2015

By ELMalvaney on July 13, 2015 • ( 3 )

Murder, mayhem, and money top the list of news items in this week’s MissPres News Roundup.

New Round of Community Heritage Preservation Grants Is Open

By ELMalvaney on July 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

From the Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History website. Preservation Grants Available –posted July 06, 2015 A popular grant program for preservation projects across the state has been reauthorized. The 2015 Mississippi legislature provided for $2.8 million in competitive grants… Read More ›

Mississippi Architect, March 1965: Whitten Jr. High School

By ELMalvaney on July 9, 2015 • ( 7 )

The last issue of the first run of Mississippi Architect, published monthly from February 1963 through March 1965, highlighted Whitten Junior High School in Jackson, a building constructed in 1960 as a close twin of Chastain Middle School in northeast… Read More ›

Mississippi Architect: March 1965

By ELMalvaney on July 8, 2015 • ( 5 )

Editor Bob Henry’s final editorial in the Mississippi Architect is a precient warning about the encroaching blandness of Modernism. You can almost catch a wiff of post-Modernism around the corner waiting to jump out and surprise a bored American public.