Author Archives
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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MSU’s Love Affair With Building Plaques
I was up at Mississippi State University recently and decided to walk through a building I had never actually seen inside before, the Bost Extension Center. As always, I made sure to check out the plaque in the lobby telling… Read More ›
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Newspaper Clippings: Jackson’s Art Deco Icon at the Beginning
Details of revised plans for a million dollar 22-story office building, towering more than 100 feet above any structure in Jackson, and to be built by the Enochs and Flowers interests and the Paul Chambers and associated interests, were announced last night.
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New Blog Follows Manship House Project
Check out the new blog “Mississippi Victorian,” an MDAH site that will follow the major renovation work now underway at the Manship House, one of two Jackson house museums operated by MDAH.
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Homogeneously Eclectic Yazoo City Storefronts
Yazoo City’s downtown may qualify as the most homogenous in the state, by which I mean of the same period and of a piece. As most of you probably know, a great fire took out a couple dozen blocks of… Read More ›
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State Fair Commission Considers Hinds Armory’s Fate
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has offered the Fair Commission emergency stabilization money to save the Hinds County Armory by putting a new roof on the building and making the building weather tight to prevent deterioration until a full rehabilitation can take place.
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Going Inside: Brookhaven P.O.
Listed on the National Register both individually and as part of the Downtown Brookhaven Historic District, the Brookhaven Post Office is an impressive building. It’s also surrounded by impressive buildings, including the First Methodist Church and the Whitworth College campus… Read More ›
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Abandoned Mississippi: Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital
Now that we have hope for the future of Mound Bayou’s Taborian Hospital, maybe we can renew some energy for Yazoo City’s earlier Afro American Sons and Daughters Hospital, long abandoned and disappearing beneath ravenous vines. Mississippi’s first hospital for… Read More ›
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Mississippi Builders: Isaac C. Garber
You’ve probably never heard of Isaac Calvin Garber, better known on various cornerstones and building plaques around the state as I.C. Garber. But if you’ve been to Jackson or Laurel or dozens of other places around the state; attended Mississippi… Read More ›
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And then there were four . . .
We’ve been worried about the steep decline of the landmark Mississippi Industrial College property, especially the oldest building, Cathrine Hall (1905), which suffered structural damage in a storm back in 2009, damage that wasn’t addressed and quickly escalated into wholesale… Read More ›
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Mississippi Architect, August 1964: Greenville Motor Bank
The August 1964 issue of the Mississippi Architect magazine features a building type that I hadn’t even noticed on the landscape until Thomas Rossell started pointing it out to me: the motor bank, better known to us today as the… Read More ›
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Mississippi Architect, August 1964: “Assembly Line” Holiday Inn
In his editorial for August 1964, Mississippi Architect editor and Jackson architect Bob Henry calls architects to public service. If you know an architect, odds are, he or she is serving on a board of some kind, whether public or… Read More ›
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Mississippi by Air: School for the Deaf, Jackson
For a current view of the campus, check out the Birdseye view on Bing: http://binged.it/M3tmJW and see if you can spot which original buildings are still there.
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Port Commission Gets Its Wish on Ceres, Gains Large Vacant Space to Go Along With All Its Other Large Vacant Spaces
According to WLBT and the Vicksburg Post, Ceres Plantation was supposed to go to the wrecker on Tuesday. The antebellum house and its associated barns will be “dismantled” (i.e. salvaged as little building parts to be sold at upscale home… Read More ›
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Should the New Capitol Be a National Historic Landmark?
Starting around the centennial of our New Capitol in 2003, there have been occasional rumblings about trying to have the building bumped up from its current National Register listing to a National Historic Landmark designation. National Historic Landmarks are the… Read More ›
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Touring the “Other” Charnley House
A few weeks ago, during the official MissPres Summer Vacation, I had a chance to visit the “other” Charnley House, the one in Chicago. You’ve probably heard of and maybe even been able to get down to see the Mississippi… Read More ›
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Mississippi by Air: Camp Zion, Myrtle
Happy camping season!
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Newspaper Clippings: Save the Governor’s Mansion, Ditch the Old Capitol
This article/editorial, taking a stand on the preservation of the Governor’s Mansion and the Old Capitol, was re-printed in the Vicksburg Evening Post (July 21, 1905, p.2) from an original publication in the Biloxi Review. MISSISSIPPI’S OLD CAPITOL BUILDING With… Read More ›
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Jackson’s Mill Street, Pearl River Glass, and Other Assorted Randomness
This post is kind of a stream of consciousness post, although probably not qualifying as Faulkneresque. Back in May, I happened to catch most of the Mississippi Arts Hour on MPB (which I prefer to call by its old name,… Read More ›
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Prospect Hill this week’s topic at History Is Lunch
This just in from the MDAH website: “Wednesday, June 20, noon–1 p.m. at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building. As part of the History Is Lunch series, Archaeological Conservancy southeast regional director Jessica Crawford talks about the Conservancy’s… Read More ›
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Mississippi Architects: William A. Stanton (1870-1948)
Yesterday, we saw two portraits of Vicksburg’s builder/architect William Stanton. Today, thanks to granddaughter Sandra Stanton Toler and Dorothy O’Neill, we see a lifetime of portraits of Stanton’s architect son William A. Stanton. William A. Stanton perhaps was Mississippi’s first… Read More ›
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Architect Pics: William Stanton (1840-1908)
Back in January, you may recall, I ran a great obituary from the Vicksburg Post memorializing Vicksburg’s important architect/builder William Stanton, whose career spanned the transition from small-scale tradesmen to large-scale construction firms. Not too long ago, MissPres reader Dorothy O’Neil… Read More ›
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Vacation Postcards: Heritage Motel, Columbus
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
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Vacation Postcards: Gilhara Motor Hotel, Greenville
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
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Vacation Postcards: Blue Gables Tourist Court, Hattiesburg
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
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Vacation Postcards: Lakeview Motel, Brandon
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
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Vacation Postcards: No-el Motel, Corinth
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
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Visit Prospect Hill Next Saturday!
As you’re making plans for next weekend, think about taking our friend Jessica Crawford and the Archaeological Conservancy up on their offer to visit Prospect Hill in Jefferson County. As you recall Prospect Hill’s first Open House last fall was… Read More ›
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