Here’s another episode from the January 1946 edition of the Manufacturer’s Record, which focused on Mississippi’s industrial potential. To read more about the N&W Overall Company (later Dickies) building, which still stands on the south side of downtown Jackson, see the National… Read More ›
If you’ve hung around MissPres for a while now you might have become familiar with Claude Lindsley and come to know his reputation as a bit of a mystery man. Malvaney first posted a picture back in 2010 of Lindsley… Read More ›
MissPres will be celebrating its seventh anniversary during 2016. To acknowledge this achievement we will be looking back at some of our earlier posts while sharing thoughts and any developments that have occurred since the post originally debuted. Today’s post is on a… Read More ›
If you’ve been in downtown Jackson in the last two months, you’ve noticed that the scaffolding has come down from the dome, or more precisely from the cupola above the dome. This won’t be the last time we see the… Read More ›
Today’s post will end our regular Thursday Craftsman-style series, but we’ll have more Craftsman posts pop up on an irregular basis because there are just too many great Craftsman buildings in Mississippi to ignore. These are just a sampling to… Read More ›
The earliest standing European structure in Mississippi may soon have a specific date associated with its construction. While it is agreed that the La Pointe Krebs House is the oldest extant structure, it’s not known exactly how old the building is. Differing reports… Read More ›
A couple of weeks ago, the post “Brick Bungalows and Plan Books” showed how house builders, using plan books and newspaper advertisements, sold the Craftsman style and more generally the bungalow’s “modern” open plan to middle-class buyers. Today and next week… Read More ›
It is not an uncommon experience when traveling the back roads of Mississippi and talking with people about the buildings they know about to hear, “This building was moved from the airfield after World War II.” This seems most common… Read More ›
Rostone was one of many “simulated masonry” developments. Produced in 1933 for the Chicago World’s Fair Century of Progress exhibition, it was used to create the Wieboldt-Rostone House designed by Walter Scholer (McKee, Stonewalling America: Simulated Stone Products). Last week,… Read More ›
One of the things I love about the Craftsman style is how middle-class and democratic it was. You could build an amazing Greene & Greene house in California, if you had the money, but if you weren’t the owner of… Read More ›
In January 1946, Manufacturer’s Record, whose byline was “A Publication for Executives,” published an issue dedicated to the business opportunities in Mississippi. A friend sent me this copy, and it contains a treasure-trove of information about all those mid-20th-century industrial buildings, many… Read More ›
Last week, reader Carl mentioned the Avalon Motor Lodge in Biloxi and wondered about the history. I could not turn up much, but located an article about renovating the Avalon with “Stonekote–a veneer of stone-like material that encases the building… Read More ›
In 1958 the ninth annual conference of the Gulf States Region of American Institute of Architects was held in Biloxi. It had several big names planned as speakers including Dr. Wernher Von Braun (who ended up not being able to attend) and designer, author, inventor,… Read More ›
Back before Jackson’s Veterans Administration Hospital became “Sonny Montgomery Medical Center” and before the building expanded into a labyrinth designed to confuse veterans and their families, the land it sat on was owned by the State of Mississippi. It had… Read More ›
This week’s foray into Mississippi’s wealth of Craftsman bungalows takes us to Itta Bena. Itta Bena, Itta Bena, Itta Bena. You can hardly keep from saying it over and over, like Nitta Yuma or Yalobusha or Tchoutacabouffa. Anyway, back to… Read More ›
Recently the Tulane Southeastern Architectural Archives blog featured a post about the time-saving office of New Orleans architect Rathbone DeBuys. In addition to having a pretty swell name, Rathbone Debuys was a pretty smart fellow, having several degrees from Tulane… Read More ›
I don’t know anything about this little bungalow on Cunningham Street in Terry, south of Jackson, except that the geometry of the gable ends made me stop in the post office parking lot across the street and snap these pictures…. Read More ›
When you’re driving through the Mississippi Delta, where there is no building stone, and you see stone columns, you stop to take pictures. That’s what I did while poking around Merigold after a stop at McCartys Pottery. As I recall,… Read More ›
I can’t claim to have come across this little gem on my own. I found a reference to it in John Hebron Moore’s The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest, and just had to track it down. To… Read More ›
In the rural Delta community of Money, and next door to the crumbling Bryant’s Grocery, which became infamous as the beginning of the Emmett Till tragedy in 1955, is the Craftsman-style Ben Roy Service Station. Because the Money Store itself is… Read More ›
One of the things on my To-Do list for November is to go down to the Mississippi Museum of Art and spend time looking at the big exhibit on Jackson artist Marie Hull, “Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull.”… Read More ›
This sprawling house at 3220 Drummond Street in the southern suburbs of Vickburg doesn’t fit neatly into the categories of the “Craftsman style” as defined in McAlester’s A Field Guide to American Houses, but I’m including it in our Craftsman… Read More ›
Well, at our last news roundup, times were good in Mississippi football. This time around, not so much. You win some, you lose some, but as we know in preservation, you must get back on your feet, adjust your helmet, and… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
George Franklin Barber was a successful architect known for his mail order plan business. He was widely published in his time and he extensively advertised his plan books and services. His Victorian couture designs can be seen all over Mississippi,… Read More ›
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