Today’s article takes us back to the grand opening of what is today known as University of Mississippi Medical Center, or UMMC for short, or UMC for even shorter. This institution has become so woven into the fabric of health… Read More ›
Hospitals/Medical
Hill-Burton Before and After: Franklin County Health Dept.
Unlike some of our previous Hill-Burton medical buildings, Franklin County’s 1949 health department in Meadville is easy to find right on the courthouse square, and other than the . . . very red metal roof, it’s very intact to its… Read More ›
HABS in Mississippi: Stealing an Alabama HABS Structure – “Jacinto” Doctor’s Office
A bit of a clickbait title if I am honest, but Mississippi does have one of Alabama’s HABS structures. Located on the Old Tishomingo County Courthouse Square in Jacinto is a diminutive but vividly painted and striking building. Yet almost… Read More ›
Two Mississippi Hill-Burton Clinics in Architectural Record
Two Mississippi health clinics funded under the Hill-Burton program were published in the October 1951 issue of Architectural Record, a high honor for our state, which is still often overlooked in the architectural world. The two-page spread focused attention on… Read More ›
Hill-Burton Before and After: Kemper County Hospital
This week’s Hill-Burton hospital, located over in the tiny county seat of DeKalb, had this eye-catching rendering in New Hospitals and Health Departments for Mississippi, which was published by the Mississippi Commission on Hospital Care around 1950. As you may remember,… Read More ›
Friday Film: Taborian Hospital, Mound Bayou
Friday Film: Taborian Hospital
Mississippi’s Best Buildings of 1975
This post is a follow up to a series begun a few weeks back that stimulated quite a bit of conversation about the appreciation of buildings from the late 1960s and early 1970s that are now reaching the golden fifty-year mark… Read More ›
Magee General Hospital: The Early Years
One of the many Mississippi projects under consideration for Public Works Administration funding in 1935 was the Magee General Hospital. The state PWA office announced approvals for a number of new projects, and many more were proposed, but never funded. … Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 4-9-2018
This week news stories from Oxford, to Jackson, to Biloxi.
MissPres News Roundup 4-2-2018
Let’s jump right into this week’s roundup. Remember you can catch the preservation news as it breaks in our Twitter sidebar to the right. =====>> Our lead story is from Lexington, about the arson investigation relating to the old Holmes… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 3-26-2018
Let’s jump right into this week’s roundup with news from Meridian, Philadelphia, Jackson, & Natchez.
MissPres News Roundup 3-20-2018
Just because we were on vacation last week didn’t stop the preservation news from coming. We’ve got a lot to catch up on. Remember you can catch the preservation news as it breaks in our Twitter sidebar to the right…. Read More ›
Hill-Burton Before and After: Northeast Mississippi Regional Hospital
This week’s Hill-Burton hospital, originally called Northeast Mississippi Regional when it opened in 1949, was the first to be completed in the state and, since Mississippi was a leader in building Hill-Burton medical clinics and facilities, it was therefore one… Read More ›
Plans for Gulfport’s 1918 U.S. Naval Camp buildings are available online
Several weeks back, when I came across the 1918 U.S. Naval Camp yearbook, I also noticed some plans for Gulfport’s 1918 U.S. Naval Camp buildings. Thanks to the J. Murrey Atkins Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte,… Read More ›
Mississippi’s Best Buildings of 1974
In 1974, the Mississippi Chapter of the American Institute of Architects held its fourth annual convention, according to a Delta Democrat Times blurb, and presented six honor awards. The awards were dominated by a Greenville firm that picked up four awards. Below the… Read More ›
Hill-Burton Before and After: Washington County Hospital
You may recall a newspaper clipping post (“Hospitals in Every County“) about the federal Hill-Burton program (technically titled the “Hospital Survey and Construction Act”) in the 1940s and 1950s that aimed to build health clinics and hospitals accessible to even… Read More ›
Mississippi Builders: A.C. Samford Company
Today’s post sheds light on a construction company that was fairly active on the Coast during the 1920s and early 1930s. The projects the company was bidding on and constructing were and are landmarks in the communities of Gulfport and Biloxi…. Read More ›
Mid-Week Mid-Century: Hospitals in Every County
Rural and small-town hospitals have been in the news lately, and it reminded me of this article from 1948, a period of great optimism in public health when Mississippi’s network of public hospitals was the talk of the nation. Mississippi… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 8-15-2017
Let’s jump right into this week’s roundup. Tonight in Hattiesburg there is a public meeting to determine a course of action for the former Mount Carmel Baptist Church on Main Street. Hattiesburg City Council will hold a public hearing at 5 p.m…. Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 7-11-2017
Two weeks since our last round-up and a lot has happened so let’s jump right into this week’s roundup. Starting on the coast in Gulfport, a new developer is taking over former Gulfport VA redevelopment project. Virginia Attorney Robert Lubin… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 6-13-2017
Lets jump right into this week’s roundup. Starting in Starkville, fourteen structures including three historic houses were demolished this week for an “a planned upscale, mixed-use development that will include retail shops and loft apartments” The article gives the developers… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 5-9-2017
Let’s start this week’s roundup big news of the National Historic Landmark plaque dedication ceremony at the New Capitol.
MissPres News Roundup 5-2-2017
Let’s start this week’s roundup with the news on the damaging storms that crossed the state over the weekend. On Monday we reported some on the damage that occurred to historic places in Durant and Flora, but reports of the extent… Read More ›
Newspaper Clippings: Pike County Health Center, 1938
I see in the news that some legislators want the state department of health to save lots of money by going “back to the 1900s” and, instead of treating people in county health clinics, they could just hand out educational… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 3-20-2017
Round ups might become an every-other week event if my schedule doesn’t let up soon. I still feel a little behind on the preservation goings on in Mississippi but let’s jump right on in to this week’s roundup. Since our last news… Read More ›
Mississippi Landmarks 2016
I had expected to get this post up when we were still in the year 2016, and I certainly didn’t think it would end up coming out in the second week of 2017, but this year’s list of new Mississippi Landmarks… Read More ›
Before and After: Taborian Hospital
If you are up in Bolivar County this weekend for MHT’s Delta Drive-In, try to leave time to head up the road to Mound Bayou where you can see the Taborian Hospital, now called Taborian Urgent Care Center, reopened after… Read More ›
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