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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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Memorial Day, 2012
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Sometimes It Is About Magnolias
This Memorial Day weekend, I hope you’ll have a chance to get out and smell the magnolias whether in your own yard or your neighbor’s. Take a blossom to the cemetery and put it on the grave of a soldier…. Read More ›
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Jackson’s Lakewood Cemetery: Mississippi AIA Founding Generation’s Final Resting Place
It took me only two trips to Jackson’s Lakewood Cemetery–way out on West Capitol after it turns into Clinton Boulevard–to figure out that a significant number of our founding generation of professional architects had been laid to rest there. Overstreet,… Read More ›
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Where Have All the Roof Signs Gone?
My little postcard collection continues to grow, although more slowly now that you can’t get even a really boring common postcard on eBay for less than three or four dollars. One thing I started to notice was the prevalence of… Read More ›
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1000
Congratulations to Preservation in Mississippi and the MissPres universe for sticking around for this, the 1000th post :-)
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Which Preservation Organization?
In case you’ve missed it, a fairly robust conversation has sprung up in the comments to Monday’s discouraging post about Ceres Plantation and its destruction-minded owners, the Warren County Port Commission. In addition to comments about the irrationality of the… Read More ›
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Warren County Port Commission spending $29,000 to demolish . . . uh . . . “recycle” Ceres
Now that so many local newspapers have moved to an online subscription system, we rely on readers from around the state who subscribe to the print editions to let us know of important preservation issues in their neck of the… Read More ›
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History of Art in Mississippi: Churches (II)
Finally at long last we are at the end of the Architecture chapter in History of Art in Mississippi, published in 1929. In addition to this chapter, several other chapters concentrate on the state’s historic buildings, including two chapters on… Read More ›
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History of Art in MS: Churches (I)
Well, this is embarrassing. In October 2010 I started a Book Quotes series from the valuable little book History of Art in Mississippi, published in 1929. After a week, I hadn’t made it through the chapter titled Architecture, and I… Read More ›
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Mississippi Architect, July 1964: Amory Middle School
The July 1964 edition of Mississippi Architect skips the editorial in favor of a notice about the AIA providing a speaker’s bureau to interested groups. Then it jumps straight to its highlighted Mississippi building, Amory Middle School, designed by Jackson… Read More ›
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A Few Preservation Month Activities Before It Gets REALLY Hot
As you all no doubt know, May is Preservation Month. It is also Mother’s Day, and count this as fair warning to make your arrangements and avoid getting the infamous Mother’s guilt trip. But I digress. Below is a non-comprehensive… Read More ›
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Going Inside: First National Bank, Jackson
I can be pretty bold about taking pictures of historic buildings or just any building that I consider architecturally impressive, but one place I’ve never even tried to take a picture of is the inside of my bank, Trustmark Bank… Read More ›
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Wanted: Mississippi NHL Photos
The National Park Service has announced its annual National Historic Landmark photography contest on Flickr for 2012. For all you shutterbugs out there in MissPres territory, it’s a great time of year to get out and capture the essence of… Read More ›
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Rural Studio Tour in WSJ
The Wall Street Journal’s article “Avant-Garde in Alabama” recognizes the work of Auburn’s Rural Studio in western Alabama. Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee, who founded the Rural Studio, was a Mississippian and had a practice here before Auburn drew him back to… Read More ›
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Architectural Twins: Vicksburg’s Mystery Mission-Style Bungalows
I love driving in the southern neighborhoods of Vicksburg, along Cherry and Drummond streets especially. The early twentieth century houses are stunning–some of the highest quality in the state in my opinion. The thing about driving a neighborhood instead of… Read More ›
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New Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire!
I fully intended to pronounce the winner of last week’s Name This Place Contest: The Doors edition on Friday evening while it was fresh on everyone’s mind. But first the siren song of crystal clear Spring weather called me outside… Read More ›
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Name This Place 9.5.3
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Name This Place 9.5.2
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Name This Place 9.5.1
We’ve reached the final innings of this week’s Name This Place contest. Harry Caray has sung Take Me Out to the Ballgame, but there’s still game to be played. Yesterday, gstone grabbed the first post of the day, Lexington’s Asia… Read More ›
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Name This Place 9.4.3
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Name This Place 9.4.2
This is my knuckleball for the week. Hint: These doors have been on MissPres before.
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Name This Place 9.4.1
New MissPreser Thomas grabbed the lead in this week’s Name This Place contest, correctly identifying the doors at both St. John’s Episcopal in Ocean Springs and the back entrance at Rosalie. For a while I thought I might have stumped… Read More ›
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Name This Place 9.3.2
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Name This Place 9.3.1
The Name This Place contest heated up yesterday. The last post of the day, Jacinto Courthouse, which is on the 101 Places list, turned out to be the stumper for the day, with a late-night entry by Belinda winning the… Read More ›
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Name This Place 9.2.3
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Name This Place 9.2.2
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Name This Place 9.2.1
In yesterday’s exciting and confusing Name This Place, Suzassippi, aka Ms. Early Bird, grabbed a bonus point for correctly identifying Longwood in her 4:55 AM answer to the first-ever pre-dawn Name This Place post. Today, I promise not to screw… Read More ›
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