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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.

• Meridian, You’re Blowing My Mind!

  By ELMalvaney on September 23, 2015 • ( 14 )

  

  News came yesterday from MDAH’s Historic Preservation Facebook page that at the request of Meridian Mayor Percy Bland, the MDAH Board of Trustees designated Chris Risher’s Modernist gem, the Meridian Police Station, at their monthly meeting. This only days after the… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-21-2015

  By ELMalvaney on September 21, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  In addition to the bad news about the Port Gibson fire and the great news about the Threefoot Building last week, here are a few more news stories from the past week to help you get back on your feet after this… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: Drew, 1937

  By ELMalvaney on September 18, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

• Fabulous News from Meridian?

  By ELMalvaney on September 17, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Meridian’s recently shaky preservation ethic has been the subject of much angst here on MissPres, so it’s exciting to be able to give congratulations and kudos to Meridian mayor Percy Bland, the Meridian City Council, and the Threefoot Preservation Society for… Read More ›

• Fire Fiend Takes Two Historic Buildings in Port Gibson

  By ELMalvaney on September 16, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  According to the Natchez Democrat: An abandoned service station and former hotel building were destroyed in the fire, the dispatcher said. The building was once reportedly home to the African-American entertainers of the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, which have a Mississippi… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-14-2015

  By ELMalvaney on September 14, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  Now that the first hints of fall have arrived, I have the energy to look around and see what preservation news is going on in our little postage stamp of the world. First off, if you’re near Rolling Fork tomorrow,… Read More ›

• Friday Film: Mississippi River Basin Model

  By ELMalvaney on September 11, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Today’s Friday Film by Atlas Obscura takes a new look at an old MHT 10 Most Endangered Place, the Mississippi River Basin Model in Jackson, aka “the greatest model ever made.” The model has been long abandoned by the Corps… Read More ›

• Brookhaven Craftsman: Y-Hut

  By ELMalvaney on September 10, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  This week’s Mississippi Craftsman building is the old Y-Hut on the former Whitworth College campus, now the Mississippi School for the Arts in Brookhaven. This is just one of several buildings on the previously abandoned campus that is now looking… Read More ›

• MS MOD Gallery Talk Sept. 10

  By ELMalvaney on September 4, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

• Architects of Mississippi: Fred Wagner (II)

  By ELMalvaney on August 27, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  In the late sixties Wagner and Oubré dissolved their partnership. James Oubré continued in New Orleans while Fred Wagner went on to Bay St Louis opening his office there on Main Street. He chose to restore a classic creole cottage for that purpose, a decision quite characteristic of his respect for the models of our regional architecture.

• Architects of Mississippi: Fred Wagner (I)

  By ELMalvaney on August 26, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  This is the first of a two-part article by Mark Davis of the Pearl River County Historical Society that originally appeared in the PRCHS newsletter, The Historical Reporter, in Septmber 2010. Mark has contributed articles on MissPres before, notably two biographical sketches of architects, P.J. Krouse… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-24-2015

  By ELMalvaney on August 24, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Events this week: Freen Melrose Tours, Delta Modern, Movie Night. Plus all the Mississippi preservation news that’s fit to print from Oxford to Natchez, from Gulfport to Greenville, and point in between, delivered direct to your computer, tablet, phablet, or other mobile device.

• Mississippi Streets: 1920s Port Gibson

  By ELMalvaney on August 21, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

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

• Mississippi Craftsman: Purvis Women’s Club

  By ELMalvaney on August 20, 2015 • ( 11 )

  

  Suzassippi’s post last week about the Mississippi Federation of Women’s Club building in Jackson reminded me of this sweet little Craftsman house that I photographed a couple years ago in Purvis. I assume it was originally a residence (it’s called… Read More ›

• Let’s Revisit Ceres, Shall We?

  By ELMalvaney on August 19, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  Maybe you remember the little brewhaha over the proposed demolition of antebellum Ceres Plantation, located on the north side of I-20 just east of Vicksburg, beginning in 2009. It had had the misfortune of being bought by the Warren County… Read More ›

• Craftsman Porches of Yazoo City

  By ELMalvaney on August 13, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Our Craftsman series usually focuses on the Craftsman bungalows found in even the smallest of Mississippi towns. But you don’t need a whole house to show your Craftsman style–sometimes a great porch will do the trick. Maybe you didn’t even… Read More ›

• Update on Endangered Holly Springs House

  By ELMalvaney on August 3, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  New research by Preserve Marshall County and Holly Springs on the endangered “little white house” behind Holly Springs City Hall indicates it was in fact the original surveyor’s office of Hugh Craft, who came to town as a surveyor for… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: 1960s Neshoba County Fair

  By ELMalvaney on July 31, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Welcome to Happy Hollow

• 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.

• 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 ›

• 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.

• 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 ›