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Greenville Craftsmen “Twins”

By ELMalvaney on April 14, 2016 • ( 4 )

I’m deep in the middle of a months-long project to geo-code my photo library, and it’s been a sometimes tedious, but often fun exercise in re-discovering pictures I took a while back and intended to do something with but then… Read More ›

Architectural Twins: The A&Ps

By ELMalvaney on January 22, 2014 • ( 43 )

Today’s post is about mid-20th-century design, but it’s not about Mid-Century Modern. Instead, it’s about the perhaps less-hipster Mid-Century Colonial style. I’m sure I’m not the first to notice these cupola-ed Colonial Revival buildings on the edges of many Mississippi… Read More ›

Architectural Twins? Eaton and Walthall Schools, Hattiesburg

By Thomas Rosell on January 17, 2013 • ( 6 )

Schools are structures that are often duplicated from one set of plans, as seen in some of Malvaney’s early Architectural Twins posts (January 14, 2010 & July 14, 2010). The school board of Hattiesburg was no different when they hired… Read More ›

Architectural Twins: Natchez’s Legitimate Siblings?

By Thomas Rosell on January 9, 2013 • ( 15 )

In my post “Happy Hanukkah Y’all” one of the buildings featured was the Gerard Brandon V house designed by the firm Weiss, Dreyfous, & Seiferth. It’s a handsome house that I had seen before but never really studied before writing… Read More ›

Architectural Twins: Vicksburg’s Mystery Mission-Style Bungalows

By ELMalvaney on April 18, 2012 • ( 11 )

I love driving in the southern neighborhoods of Vicksburg, along Cherry and Drummond streets especially. The early twentieth century houses are stunning–some of the highest quality in the state in my opinion. The thing about driving a neighborhood instead of… Read More ›

Architectural Twins: One Happy, One Glowering

By ELMalvaney on May 19, 2011 • ( 3 )

Tuesday’s post about the Trailways station and the former Petroleum building across that street that’s been transformed into what some have called a Darth Vader Building reminded me of a similar but smaller scale transformation to a building here in… Read More ›

Architectural Twins–Jackson Bungalows

By ELMalvaney on March 31, 2011 • ( 8 )

Well, when I wrote my first post on architectural twins, I certainly didn’t expect it to become an on-going series, but I think this might be the fourth post on that theme, which means it was meant to be a… Read More ›

Architectural Twins: Two Overstreet Churches

By ELMalvaney on December 17, 2010 • ( 6 )

Here’s a little light fare for Friday. I can’t claim any credit for today’s post, as I came across images of these two buildings while reading David H. Sachs’ 1986 Ph.D. dissertation, The Work of Overstreet and Town: The Coming… Read More ›

Architectural Twins

By ELMalvaney on January 14, 2010 • ( 4 )

I’ve been out and about the Magnolia State braving wind, snow, sleet, and broken water mains to scout out cool old buildings and bring you, my loyal MissPres readers, a report of what’s out there. As you remember, I drove… Read More ›

Happy 130th Birthday, N.W. Overstreet!

By Thomas Rosell on July 4, 2018 • ( 11 )

Happy Birthday, N.W. Overstreet! Just like Yankee Doodle Dandy, he was born on the 4th of July. Today would be N.W. Overstreet’s 130th birthday, as he was born on July 4th, 1888. Overstreet has left an indelible imprint all across… Read More ›

MissPres News Roundup 1-22-2018

By W. White on January 22, 2018 • ( 3 )

This first News Roundup of 2018 will compile the historic preservation news related articles from the first three weeks of this cold, flu-riddled year, with some from December that fell through the cracks. Now for the news. The Belzoni Banner… Read More ›

Last Minute Holiday Gifts For The Preservationist On Your List

By Thomas Rosell on December 20, 2017 • ( 8 )

If you’re still scratching your head for the holiday gift for the preservationist on your list, here’s a quick run-down of the architectural dictionaries and other books I find most helpful and which you might want to add to your library…. Read More ›

Chicken Chef: Mississippi’s Own A-Frame

By Thomas Rosell on April 26, 2017 • ( 35 )

A-frame buildings tend to stand out to me just because they are not too common around Mississippi, or anywhere else for that matter. The term A-frame comes from the shape of the structure, where the roof extends down steeply on… Read More ›

With Gratitude

By Thomas Rosell on December 30, 2016 • ( 10 )

2016 has been quite the year: the struggles, the places we’ve lost. I am hopeful we learned from these losses to maybe prevent similar losses in the future. Looking beyond, I would like to share this list of the things I am grateful… Read More ›

Mississippi Capitol Earns National Landmark Status

By ELMalvaney on November 4, 2016 • ( 8 )

I didn’t plan on taking a vacation from the blog this week, but how could I have known the Cubs would take me through such a nerve-wracking World Series and making me stay up so late on Wednesday to get them through those… Read More ›

Mississippi Streets: Jackson’s Capitol Street, 1960s

By ELMalvaney on September 30, 2016 • ( 3 )

I’ve seen a lot of postcards of Jackson’s Capitol Street looking from the far west end near the King Edward Hotel up to the Old Capitol, but this one goes in the opposite direction and shows some buildings that don’t… Read More ›

Friday Puzzler: A Tale of Two Domes

By Thomas Rosell on April 22, 2016 • ( 7 )

Here is a Friday puzzler for all you puzzle masters out there. You might be familiar with “Tale of Two Domes” a saga in which architect George R. Mann claimed that the Mississippi New Capitol building’s dome is based on… Read More ›

Rathbone Debuys Bank Identified

By Thomas Rosell on December 2, 2015 • ( 10 )

Recently the Tulane Southeastern Architectural Archives blog featured a post about the time-saving office of New Orleans architect Rathbone DeBuys. In addition to having a pretty swell name, Rathbone Debuys was a pretty smart fellow, having several degrees from Tulane… Read More ›

Craftsman Style in Mississippi

By ELMalvaney on February 26, 2015 • ( 9 )

At long last I have finally gotten around to starting a series on the Craftsman style in Mississippi, something I promised to do two years ago. Hopefully, having it percolate around in my head for that long will make the… Read More ›

Twin Domes: Arkansas’ State House Commissioners Visit Mississippi

By ELMalvaney on January 15, 2015 • ( 3 )

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 ›

Chris Risher: Colonial Revivalist?

By ELMalvaney on December 18, 2014 • ( 19 )

I’ve often admired this little brick commercial building on Old Canton Road in Jackson, just south of Highland Village for its use of traditional motifs like the brick veneer, columned gallery, pilastered door surround, and other thoughtful details in what is clearly a 1960s or 1970s building.