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In addition to ruling over the MissPres universe with an iron fist, Malvaney enjoys reading, wandering around old buildings, stopping to smell the magnolias, fiddling with databases, and sitting on the porch with a good book and a big ol' dog. Non-interests include but are not limited to tweeting, texting, Instagramming, planking, Candy Crush, Donald Trump, and unecessarily destructive home renovation shows.
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Checking in on the Historic Preservation Tax Credit
This was supposed to be a traditional Monday news roundup, but . . . well, the weekend got the better of me, and then I heard that the Legislature was finally working the historic tax credit bill through its conference committee… Read More ›
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Mississippi Streets: 1920s Hattiesburg
I’m not 100% sure that this is the correct perspective, but it’s the best I can do given that many of these buildings are apparently no longer standing. See other Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City 1910s Vicksburg 1950s New Albany… Read More ›
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Greenville Craftsmen “Twins”
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 ›
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HABS in Mississippi: Rosalie, Natchez
In last week’s series, “Cataloguing HABS in Mississippi,” Virginia Price introduced us to the Historic American Buildings Survey, begun in the 1930s, and explained how the federal program worked in Mississippi. Architect A. Hays Town, later known for his creative… Read More ›
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MissPres News Roundup 4-11-2016
Since I spent the weekend grumpily working on taxes, this will be a fairly truncated roundup, but I hope it will catch most of the big stuff. If you know of something I’ve missed, be sure to add it in… Read More ›
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Cataloguing Mississippi for HABS: Early Recording Efforts
The following list of buildings and sites was taken from documents in Record Group 515 at the National Archives. Twelve buildings were recorded through measured drawings in the 1930s, and in 1939 additional places were considered. The resulting list, entitled “Structures Proposed for Measurement,” was compiled by the state office led by District Officer Emmett J. Hull.
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Cataloguing Mississippi for HABS, Part 3
In the final episode of this three-part series about HABS in Mississippi, Virginia Price explores the dominance of the old river towns Natchez and Vicksburg in the HABS collection for Mississippi, and the consequent impression that the Greek Revival style constituted Mississippi’s architectural golden age.
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Cataloguing Mississippi for HABS, Part 2
In Part 2 of 3 in a series about HABS in Mississippi, Virginia Price explores the role and work of Mississippi’s first two district officers, A. Hays Town and Emmett J. Hull, and compares Mississippi’s HABS documentation to other states. Plus, C.H. Lindsley, mystery man extraordinaire, appears unexpectedly.
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Cataloguing Mississippi for HABS, Part 1
If you’ve hung around this blog for a while, or if you’re a regular on various Facebook groups, you’ve probably seen beautiful black-and-white images of buildings, or even floorplans and detail drawings, with the citation “HABS” or the spelled-out version… Read More ›
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The Renaissance of the Ridgelanders
The heretofore untold story of rampaging Ridgelanders, marauding Madisonians, Piazza del Ruth’s Chris, the true orgin of the Washington Monument, hippocamps, and more! Plus, did Michaelangelo visit Renaissance?
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MissPres News Roundup 3-28-2016
The biggest preservation news this week comes from the Legislature, where lawmakers are debating renewal of the Historic Preservation Tax Credit, which provides a tax credit for rehabilitation of National Register-listed properties amounting to 25% of the cost of renovation…. Read More ›
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Happy Easter 2016 A.D.
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Industrial Mississippi 1946: N&W Overall Company
Here’s another episode from the January 1946 edition of the Manufacturer’s Record, which focused on Mississippi’s industrial potential. To read more about the N&W Overall Company (later Dickies) building, which still stands on the south side of downtown Jackson, see the National… Read More ›
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MissPres News Roundup 3-21-2016
From sunken treasures to interpretive plaques on Confederate monuments, this week’s roundup proves it’s definitely not all moonlight and magnolias here in azalea-blooming, early-Spring Mississippi.
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Vacation Postcards: Johnnie Cleveland’s Trailer Town
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
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Vacation Postcards: Elvis Presley Memorial Chapel
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
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Vacation Postcards: Greenville Cadet Club
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
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Vacation Postcards: Northwood Country Club, Meridian
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
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Vacation Postcards: Methodist Seashore Camp Grounds
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
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New Capitol Updates
If you’ve been in downtown Jackson in the last two months, you’ve noticed that the scaffolding has come down from the dome, or more precisely from the cupola above the dome. This won’t be the last time we see the… Read More ›
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More Gordon-Van Tine Southern Bungalows
Today’s post will end our regular Thursday Craftsman-style series, but we’ll have more Craftsman posts pop up on an irregular basis because there are just too many great Craftsman buildings in Mississippi to ignore. These are just a sampling to… Read More ›
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Fire Destroys Hazlehurst’s I.N. Ellis House
Fire has completely destroyed Hazlehurst’s I.N. Ellis House, a Queen Anne-style George Barber design built in 1891, according to a story on MSNewsNow (WLBT). Highlighted in Thomas Rosell’s post about George Barber’s mail-order houses, this was perhaps the most architecturally… Read More ›
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Removing the Scar from the War Memorial
If you’ve been to an event at the Old Capitol or the War Memorial Building in the last five to six months, you’ve probably noticed the disturbingly large brown Rorschach Test-like marking on the limestone of the War Memorial’s south wall,… Read More ›
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Mississippi Craftsman: Gordon-Van Tine’s Pre-Cut Bungalows
A couple of weeks ago, the post “Brick Bungalows and Plan Books” showed how house builders, using plan books and newspaper advertisements, sold the Craftsman style and more generally the bungalow’s “modern” open plan to middle-class buyers. Today and next week… Read More ›
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Mid-Century Mississippi: “This building was moved from the airfield”
It is not an uncommon experience when traveling the back roads of Mississippi and talking with people about the buildings they know about to hear, “This building was moved from the airfield after World War II.” This seems most common… Read More ›
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Webster County Courthouse Demolition Begins
Knowing it was coming doesn’t make it any easier. The Webster County Courthouse demolition has begun, according to Facebook posts and WCBI. The two-story brick Craftsman/Prairie style building was built in 1915 by the Little-Cleckler Construction Company of Anniston, Alabama, and… Read More ›
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Industrial Mississippi: Knox Glass Company
One of the advertisers in the 1946 Mississippi edition of Manufacturer’s Record was Knox Glass Company. This rang a bell for me, and I went searching back through the trusty WPA Guide to Mississippi, which gives directions and a little information… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 