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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.

• Name This Place 6.5.2

  By ELMalvaney on September 10, 2010 • ( 7 )

  

• Name This Place 6.5.1

  By ELMalvaney on September 10, 2010 • ( 8 )

  

  Well, y’all could have seen me do my specially choreographed end-zone dance that I was planning yesterday afternoon when it looked like nobody was going to guess the second Name This Place, but then Belinda popped in after 6 hours… Read More ›

• Name This Place 6.4.2

  By ELMalvaney on September 9, 2010 • ( 25 )

  

  This may be the one that gets ol’ Malvaney a spot in the Name This Place standings . . .

• Name This Place 6.4.1

  By ELMalvaney on September 9, 2010 • ( 11 )

  

  Ok, yesterday I thought I’d throw a little slow pitch on the first post (Rosalie) to get everyone complacent and then whip a couple of blistering fast balls past in the next two posts (Grover Hotel, Runnelstown Gymnasium). But you… Read More ›

• Name This Place 6.3.3

  By ELMalvaney on September 8, 2010 • ( 11 )

• Name This Place 6.3.2

  By ELMalvaney on September 8, 2010 • ( 9 )

• Name This Place 6.3.1

  By ELMalvaney on September 8, 2010 • ( 8 )

  

  Under the old Name This Place rules, W. White’s current 5 point lead would be insurmountable, but nowadays, with up to three pictures a day, it’s still anybody’s game. If you’re just joining us, read The Rules first and jump… Read More ›

• Name This Place 6.2.2

  By ELMalvaney on September 7, 2010 • ( 13 )

  

• Name This Place 6.2.1

  By ELMalvaney on September 7, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  In yesterday’s first post, Susan Allen became our first leader by correctly identifying the Quitman County Courthouse in Marks. W. White also got a point on that first post and then grabbed two more by identifying the Rocky Springs Methodist… Read More ›

• Name This Place 6.1.2

  By ELMalvaney on September 6, 2010 • ( 8 )

  

• Name This Place 6.1.1

  By ELMalvaney on September 6, 2010 • ( 13 )

  

  If you’re just joining us, you’ve picked a great time. We’re at the very start of our 6th Annual Name This Place contest, wherein MissPres readers battle for the much-coveted title of Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire. At the end of the… Read More ›

• Not Your Grandma’s Name This Place Contest

  By ELMalvaney on September 5, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Tomorrow, we’ll start a new Name This Place contest, an exciting time in the life of all MissPresers. It’s been a while since we’ve had a contest, and I know we’ve had a number of new readers join our group… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-3-2010

  By ELMalvaney on September 3, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I think we’ve set a record for most News Roundups in two weeks (four total). This puts us in fine shape to take next week off for a little contest. Yes, MissPresers, you heard right! It’s been almost four months… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, June 1963: Reid Residence

  By ELMalvaney on September 2, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  The second article from the June 1963 Mississippi Architect is about a house in Jackson’s Woodland Hills neighborhood, the Reid House. Those of you who have been around MissPres for a while may remember that this house was featured in… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, June 1963

  By ELMalvaney on September 1, 2010 • ( 18 )

  

  Today and tomorrow are the fourth in the Mississippi Architect series, an on-going effort to reprint (with permission of course) the monthly journal of the Mississippi AIA, published originally from March 1963 through March 1965. In today’s edition, we can… Read More ›

• MissPres Blog Roundup 8-27-2010

  By ELMalvaney on August 27, 2010 • ( 3 )

  

  Time for another look around at the blogosphere: Imagine my surprise to see a post titled “Mississippi Gulf Coast Architecture” on the Preservation in Pink blog, which is normally focused more on North Carolina and now New England. The post… Read More ›

• Before and After: Coleman High School, Greenville

  By ELMalvaney on August 26, 2010 • ( 35 )

  

  You may remember back last summer around this time when I was doing the Book Quotes about Hitchcock and Johnson’s The International Style, I posted this old postcard of Coleman High School in Greenville. I was in Greenville recently and… Read More ›

• Springfield Sees New Life

  By ELMalvaney on August 25, 2010 • ( 2 )

  I have to admit Springfield, down in Jefferson County, is one historic house I’ve never made it out to see, even though it was open for tours for many years before the death of the last owner, Arthur LaSalle. Mr…. Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-20-2010

  By ELMalvaney on August 20, 2010 • ( 4 )

  Three weeks of August down, only one and a little bit to go. We can do it, y’all! This week’s roundup has lots of national stories in it, I don’t know why. ————————————- NPR had a fascinating story on All… Read More ›

• Newspaper Clippings: Save Downtown Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on August 18, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  We haven’t done a newspaper clipping post in a while, and given yesterday’s post about the Naval Reserve Center down by the fairgrounds in downtown Jackson, I thought this one would be appropriate. First some context: when we walk down… Read More ›

• Demolition begins on Jackson’s Naval Reserve Center

  By ELMalvaney on August 17, 2010 • ( 5 )

  

  Workers have been spotted at the Naval Reserve Center behind the Old Capitol in Jackson over the last week removing windows, interior debris, and sections of the rear wings in preparation for the demolition of most of the rear wings… Read More ›

• A Lustron House in Clarksdale and Sambo Mockbee all in one post?

  By ELMalvaney on August 16, 2010 • ( 7 )

  

  A couple months ago, as you recall, we highlighted the one Lustron house left in Jackson (out of originally three), and I made passing mention to the only other known Lustron house in the state up in Clarksdale. Well, lo… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-13-2010

  By ELMalvaney on August 13, 2010 • ( 3 )

  Long ago in the Year of our Lord 2007, the first two weeks of August, expected to be hot and steamy and muggy and generally uncomfortable, instead became cool, with lows even into the 50s at night, gloriously cool nights… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect: Fellow Tom Biggs

  By ELMalvaney on August 12, 2010 • ( 5 )

  

  This last installment from the May 1963 issue of Mississippi Architect is an unusual one for the magazine, as it focuses on one particular Mississippi architect who was being honored by the A.I.A. We’ve looked at a few of Tom… Read More ›

• Miss. Architect, May 1963: Lafayette County Jail

  By ELMalvaney on August 11, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  LAFAYETTE COUNTY JAIL OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI This county jail is located on one of the main streets in town. The architects who designed it took into account two primary needs: the need for privacy and the need for fresh design. The new… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, May 1963

  By ELMalvaney on August 10, 2010 • ( 0 )

  We begin our third entry in the Mississippi Architect series, reprinted courtesy of the Mississippi Chapter of the AIA. If you’ve missed the previous entries, just click the MSArcht tab above to see the tables of contents and read each… Read More ›

• New Internet Resources for MissPresers

  By ELMalvaney on August 9, 2010 • ( 8 )

  While lounging around on vacation last week, and when not sitting on the white sandy  beaches (NO OIL!!) of Northwest Florida (this has been a non-paid advertisement for the Gulf Coast tourism industry), I had a chance to catch up… Read More ›