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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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MissPres News Roundup 2-15-2016
News about historic places from the Gulf Coast to Northeast Mississippi and beyond.
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Mississippi Streets: 1910s Meridian
See other Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City 1910s Vicksburg 1950s New Albany 1960s Meridian 1930s Camp Shelby 1950s Pascagoula 1960s Neshoba County Fair Drew 1937 Tupelo 1936 Vicksburg 1936 1940s Gulfport 1940s Columbus Greenville 1927 Lexington 1939
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Craftsman in Mississippi: Brick Bungalows and Plan Books
One of the things I love about the Craftsman style is how middle-class and democratic it was. You could build an amazing Greene & Greene house in California, if you had the money, but if you weren’t the owner of… Read More ›
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Happy 7th Birthday, Y’all
Yesterday was this blog’s seventh birthday, and as is traditional, we start our new year a day late and return to our first love, the subject of our first post, the Old Capitol in Jackson. I was flipping through the… Read More ›
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MissPres News Roundup 2-8-2016
As I write this on this Super Bowl Sunday, I’m afraid I can’t promise a news roundup even close to the breadth of W. White’s January posts, but I do want to thank him for taking over the roundup duty… Read More ›
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Mississippi Streets: Lexington 1939
Today’s picture is labeled in the Farm Security Administration archives as being taken in Belzoni, but that didn’t seem right to me. The three-story building with the Fincher Hardware sign sparked a memory, and sure enough, I found about the… Read More ›
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Industrial Mississippi: Manufacturer’s Record 1946
In January 1946, Manufacturer’s Record, whose byline was “A Publication for Executives,” published an issue dedicated to the business opportunities in Mississippi. A friend sent me this copy, and it contains a treasure-trove of information about all those mid-20th-century industrial buildings, many… Read More ›
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Going Inside: Ocean Springs Community Center
Some buildings are so amazing on the outside that you feel compelled to get inside and look around. And then there’s the Ocean Springs Community Center, a concrete-block building with aspirations of Colonial Revival, completed in 1950. But walk inside,… Read More ›
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Gulfport Tourist Court Craftsman
Today’s Craftsman post shows a place that no longer exists but that represents a whole category of bungalows that once dotted Mississippi highways, especially Highway 90 on the Coast, the tourist court. Tourist or motor courts arose with the new… Read More ›
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Mississippi by Air: 1960s University Medical Center
——————— See also: Mid-Century Mississippi: To VA or Not To VA?
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Craftsman in Mississippi: Webb School, Bay St. Louis
One of my favorite Craftsman-style school buildings in the state is actually listed on the National Register as a good example of the Colonial Revival style. But that’s ok, because both I and the MDAH Historic Resources Inventory say that it’s… Read More ›
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Mississippi Streets: Greenville, 1927
——————————— See other Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City 1910s Vicksburg 1950s New Albany 1960s Meridian 1930s Camp Shelby 1950s Pascagoula 1960s Neshoba County Fair Drew 1937 Tupelo 1936 Vicksburg 1936 1940s Gulfport 1940s Columbus
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Mid-Century Mississippi: To VA Hospital or Not?
Back before Jackson’s Veterans Administration Hospital became “Sonny Montgomery Medical Center” and before the building expanded into a labyrinth designed to confuse veterans and their families, the land it sat on was owned by the State of Mississippi. It had… Read More ›
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Water Rising in Rodney
According to Walt Grayson’s Facebook post, the Mississippi River is expected to crest this week at Rodney, where the water was already inside Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Sunday.
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Tylertown Craftsman
Now that our Craftsman in Mississippi series has been going for a year, I’m going to leave it to you, the MissPres experts, to tell me all the attributes of this Craftsman stunner that are almost enough to make me… Read More ›
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2015 Annual Report
As we bid adieu to 2015, and march toward this little blog’s 7th anniversary in February, let’s take inventory of how MissPres did this last year. Our big milestone was reaching 1 million views, which would have been exciting, but… Read More ›
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Auld Lang Syne: Friends We Lost in 2015
2015 has been a rough year for Mississippi’s historic buildings. Fire, storms, economic hardship, and public officials with no vision (a class of people who I hope will never receive an iota of sympathy here on MissPres no matter how… Read More ›
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Mississippi Landmarks 2015
Let’s follow up our two days of reviewing National Register listings for 2015 with a shorter list of the buildings designated as Mississippi Landmarks by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Often confused with the National Register, which is administered… Read More ›
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National Register 2015: Historic Districts
National Register listings come in two sizes: individual properties and historic districts. In this year’s National Register listings, historic districts outnumber individual properties, which is unusual because districts take more work than individual buildings or sites. The number of districts this year is a… Read More ›
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National Register 2015: Individual Listings
Five individual properties listed on the National Register in 2015 range from a Confederate earthwork to a cemetery to a wood-frame church to a Modernist department store, and a country club rounds out the list.
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Merry Christmas from Dixie
From Jackson, Mississippi, where it is raining in the pines, to your house, wherever it is, merry Christmas!
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Newspaper Clippings: Two millionth Chevy climbs Capitol steps
A friend sent me this article from May 1926, and I’ve filed it away in the folder labeled “Couldn’t Happen Nowadays” and tagged it “Too Good to Keep To Myself.” Enjoy! Two Millionth Chevy Climbs Capitol Steps The two millionth… Read More ›
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Mississippi Streets: 1940s Columbus
——————————- See other Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City 1910s Vicksburg 1950s New Albany 1960s Meridian 1930s Camp Shelby 1950s Pascagoula 1960s Neshoba County Fair Drew 1937 Tupelo 1936 Vicksburg 1936 1940s Gulfport
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Itta Bena Craftsman
This week’s foray into Mississippi’s wealth of Craftsman bungalows takes us to Itta Bena. Itta Bena, Itta Bena, Itta Bena. You can hardly keep from saying it over and over, like Nitta Yuma or Yalobusha or Tchoutacabouffa. Anyway, back to… Read More ›
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Community Heritage Preservation Grants 2015
From the MDAH website: More than $3M in Preservation Grants Awarded – posted December 04, 2015 At a special meeting on December 4 the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History awarded more than $3 million… Read More ›
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Mississippi by Air: Delta Experiment Station 1952
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MissPres News Roundup 11-30-2015
How about a quick News Roundup to ease ourselves back into work and life after what I hope was a (take your pick) quiet/relaxing/exciting/adventuresome/food-filled/family-packed Thanksgiving break in which you slept/worked in the yard/cooked/read/ate/watched football/avoided people/shopped on Black Friday/watched football (did… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 