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 ›
Architectural Research
Mississippi Architect, June 1963
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 ›
Claude H. Lindsley alive and well… in 1968
In a previous post there had been some discussion of what happened to Claude Lindsley, Jackson architect of the Art Deco Standard Life Building (among many other landmarks), later on in his life. He moved from Houston, Texas some time in the 1950’s… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 8-30-2010
This News Roundup will cover some new news and some of the older news that I could not fit into the last Roundup. And here is the news. Let’s start this News Roundup with news from Starkville, an area that… Read More ›
Springfield Sees New Life
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 ›
Concrete Block Structures of Biloxi
While concrete block has been around for thousands of years it did not become widely accepted as a quality building material in North America until the turn of the 20th century. This general acceptance came about as the manufacturing process… Read More ›
A Lustron House in Clarksdale and Sambo Mockbee all in one post?
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 ›
Mississippi Architect: Fellow Tom Biggs
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
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
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 ›
MissPres News Roundup 7-30-2010
Can you believe July is almost over? Since August is my least favorite month, I’ll be taking my summer vacation next week. You may say, “Good grief, Malvaney just took a long vacation in April!” To which I would respond,… Read More ›
To Leakesville and Back
Leakesville? Leakesville, you say? What’s in Leakesville and why would you go there? Well, for one thing, Leakesville boasts a fine courthouse and a nice school complex. Plus, there’s interesting stuff on the way there from Jackson, and it’s on… Read More ›
Laurel’s Contribution to Architectural History
I saw this postcard of the Masonite Plant on ebay recently (and no, I’m not addicted. Yet) and snatched it right up because it reminded me that we have our own Laurel, Mississippi to thank for all that pressed wood… Read More ›
Blog Roundup 7-26-2010
I think the blog roundup will become a regular feature, not every week but enough to start designating it with a date like the news roundups. I hope these links help pull together lots of good blog posts you might… Read More ›
Southern Mantel & Tile: Mission Furniture Too
Here we are at the last in our series “Best of the Southern Mantel & Tile Catalog.” Yesterday, I showed where the main office of the company was located, on South Gallatin Street, and I wondered if that was also… Read More ›
Southern Mantel & Tile: Selling Mantels and Mantel Accessories
Here we are on the third day of our series bringing some of Jackson’s construction history back out in the open. The Southern Mantel and Tile Company was based in Jackson, and apparently had their offices and maybe their whole… Read More ›
Southern Mantel & Tile: The secret’s in the lumber
Today, we pick up in the second part of our series showcasing the Southern Mantel & Tile catalog from 1908. Southern Mantel & Tile was based in Jackson, so presumably and depending on how long they operated, we might run… Read More ›
Book Quotes: Southern Mantel and Tile Catalog
I haven’t done a book quotes in a while, and I’m not sure this particular book qualifies, but I’ll say it does. A while back, I found a catalog published by the Jackson company Southern Mantel and Tile around 1908…. Read More ›
Hey, haven’t I seen you before?
A while back, in the middle of our frigid winter, I posted about two architectural twins I had run across in travels around the state, schools based on plans published in the early 1920s by the state department of education… Read More ›
Spreading Seeds of Beauvoir Everywhere
I spent more than I normally do to buy this postcard outright off of eBay recently–it’s the Mississippi Building at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, and as you can see, at least from this vantage point, it’s a… Read More ›
1930s Industrial History in Natchez
If there was much going on in the news this week, I either didn’t catch it or was not interested enough to tag it for a news roundup. One article from last week, however, was newsy enough for me to… Read More ›
Mississippi Architect: Hinton Hall, Perkinston Junior College
The latest in our ongoing series re-printing the 2-year run of Mississippi Architect from 1963 through 1965. Today’s article is the feature in the April 1963 issue. As always, you can view the full issue, which includes articles on non-Mississippi… Read More ›
Mississippi Architect: April 1963
Last month we ran the inaugural issue of the Mississippi Architect, published by the Mississippi Chapter of the American Institute of Architects from March 1963 through March 1965 under the editorship of Jackson architect Bob Henry. Editorial advisors in this… Read More ›
Blog Roundup
Since many of the lucky ones are off work today to recover from too much fun/food in the sun yesterday, it might be the better part of valor for me to just do a post catching y’all up on interesting… Read More ›
Now-angry buildings were once carefree mid-century moderns
Yesterday’s picture of the former Petroleum Building in Jackson brought out the inner-Modernists in all of us, a fun jaunt back to a time when colorful buildings were considered not only fashionable but suitable for the headquarters of an oil… Read More ›
Mississippi Architect: First Federal Savings & Loan, Jackson
Still in the inaugural issue of Mississippi Architect, March 1963, which we introduced with Bob Henry’s first editorial, about the architectural profession, yesterday. Today we’ll pass along the first building profile, which I love for many reasons: it’s an R.W…. Read More ›
Introducing Mississippi Architect
Today will be the first of a long-running series reprinting the editorials and articles from the short-lived but important Mississippi Architect, published by the Mississippi chapter of the AIA from March 1963 through March 1965. Those of you who keep… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 