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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.

• A New Capitol Thanksgiving

  By ELMalvaney on November 23, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Mississippi’s beloved New Capitol moved a big step toward becoming a National Historic Landmark last week, according to the MDAH Historic Preservation Division’s Facebook post: This Monday at the historic Charles Sumner School in Washington DC, Ken P’Pool, Mississippi’s Deputy… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: 1940s Gulfport

  By ELMalvaney on November 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  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

• Weather Takes Down Two Okolona Buildings

  By ELMalvaney on November 19, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Two historic buildings in downtown Okolona, the old Merchants & Farmers Bank and its next-door neighbor, met their demise in the bad weather on Tuesday night, according to WTVA. A third building, dating to the 1880s, appears to be in a… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: Vicksburg 1936

  By ELMalvaney on November 13, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Who will be the first to identify which street and which building Walker Evans captured in 1936?

• Craftsman in Mississippi: Terry Bungalow

  By ELMalvaney on November 12, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  I don’t know anything about this little bungalow on Cunningham Street in Terry, south of Jackson, except that the geometry of the gable ends made me stop in the post office parking lot across the street and snap these pictures…. Read More ›

• Veterans Day 2015

  By ELMalvaney on November 11, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  See more Veterans Day posts: 2014: Doughboy Monument, Meridian 2013: Greenville Army Flying School 2012: Reprint of Art and the Soldier: Keesler Field 2010: Camp Shelby in WWII 2009: War Memorial Building, Jackson

• MissPres News Roundup 11-9-2015

  By ELMalvaney on November 9, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Let’s get right to a few items of note from the past two weeks in our little rainy, finally fall-like part of the world. Up in Holly Springs, work may finally be on the horizon to stabilize the Carnegie Auditorium on… Read More ›

• Mississippi by Air: State Sanatorium

  By ELMalvaney on November 6, 2015 • ( 20 )

  

• Merigold Craftsman

  By ELMalvaney on November 5, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  When you’re driving through the Mississippi Delta, where there is no building stone, and you see stone columns, you stop to take pictures. That’s what I did while poking around Merigold after a stop at McCartys Pottery. As I recall,… Read More ›

• Newspaper Clippings: Death of an Ancient Black Builder

  By ELMalvaney on November 4, 2015 • ( 4 )

  I can’t claim to have come across this little gem on my own. I found a reference to it in John Hebron Moore’s The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest, and just had to track it down. To… Read More ›

• New Capitol Nominated for NHL Status

  By ELMalvaney on November 2, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  According to the MDAH Historic Preservation Division Facebook page: We are excited to announce that at its November 2015 meeting, the National Park Service’s Landmarks Committee will be considering whether to recommend the Mississippi State Capitol for National Historic Landmark… Read More ›

• Going Inside: Cotton Warehouse, c.1940

  By ELMalvaney on October 30, 2015 • ( 11 )

  

  It’s that time of year when the cotton has been brought in from the fields, which now look a bit bereft and battered. Cotton warehouses are scattered all over the state (last time I was in Holly Springs, the massive… Read More ›

• Money Craftsman

  By ELMalvaney on October 29, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  In the rural Delta community of Money, and next door to the crumbling Bryant’s Grocery, which became infamous as the beginning of the Emmett Till tragedy in 1955, is the Craftsman-style Ben Roy Service Station. Because the Money Store itself is… Read More ›

• Mississippi Unbuilt: A Capitol at Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on October 28, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  In the banner of the Vicksburg Weekly Whig appear the names of Marmaduke Shannon, Publisher and Proprietor, and James K. Carnes, Editor. I’m not sure which one of them is responsible for this zinger of an editorial, but it deserves an… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 10-27-2015

  By ELMalvaney on October 27, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Due to an unexpected power outage this weekend, just as I was beginning to think about putting together an overdue news roundup, this roundup is filling Suzassippi’s usual Tuesday slot. Following up on last month’s exciting announcement about a new… Read More ›

• MHT Announces Mississippi’s 10 Most Endangered Places for 2015-2016

  By ELMalvaney on October 23, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  MHT’s 10 Most Endangered Places unveiling for 2015 came off without a hitch at MHT’s Lowry House, still under construction but looking pretty spiffy. This was the 10th unveiling since the list was introduced in 1999, meaning that we have reached… Read More ›

• Belhaven Craftsman: Emmett J. Hull House

  By ELMalvaney on October 22, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  One of the things on my To-Do list for November is to go down to the Mississippi Museum of Art and spend time looking at the big exhibit on Jackson artist Marie Hull, “Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull.”… Read More ›

• Tallahatchie Courthouse Is SESAH’s Best of the South

  By ELMalvaney on October 19, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Congratulations to Belinda Stewart Architects and everyone involved in the multi-year restoration of the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner. The project has been awarded the 2015 Best of the South award by the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians at their latest… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: Port Gibson 1940

  By ELMalvaney on October 16, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  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

• Roadside Mississippi: Holiday Terrace Motel, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on October 14, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Construction Begins On New Modern Motel Construction has been started on Jackson’s ultra modern motel, “Holiday Terrace” on Highway 80 West, at the corner of Valley Street, according to Louis W. Cotton and Company, agents for Cleve Myers, Incorporated, owners…. Read More ›

• Drummond Street Craftsman

  By ELMalvaney on October 8, 2015 • ( 12 )

  

  This sprawling house at 3220 Drummond Street in the southern suburbs of Vickburg doesn’t fit neatly into the categories of the “Craftsman style” as defined in McAlester’s A Field Guide to American Houses, but I’m including it in our Craftsman… Read More ›

• Then & Now: Sheraton Motor Inn

  By ELMalvaney on October 7, 2015 • ( 14 )

  

  Today’s Then and Now is a lesson in the life-cycle of hotels in our throw-away society. If you’ve driven down I-55 in Jackson recently, you’ve seen the former Sheraton Motor Inn just north of the Northside Drive exit, but you… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 10-5-2015

  By ELMalvaney on October 5, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Well, at our last news roundup, times were good in Mississippi football. This time around, not so much. You win some, you lose some, but as we know in preservation, you must get back on your feet, adjust your helmet, and… Read More ›

• Mississippi by Air: Vicksburg 1940

  By ELMalvaney on October 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• Mid-Century Mississippi: Fondren’s First National Bank

  By ELMalvaney on September 30, 2015 • ( 15 )

  

  Today’s blast to the past is just a nice little Modernist bank building in my Fondren neighborhood that I’ve always admired. It’s one of the earliest drive-through banks I’ve documented, since I started noticing drive-through banks, prodded by Thomas Rosell… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: Tupelo 1936

  By ELMalvaney on September 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• 10 Most Endangered List Unveiling October 22

  By ELMalvaney on September 24, 2015 • ( 0 )