For the Broadwater’s story, see “Pleasure Domes Past” by Tom Barnes.
Hotels
MissPres News Roundup 5-11-2015
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a proper news roundup, so we have lots to catch up on (or “on up which to catch”?). A couple of stories and videos in the last few weeks have kept us updated… Read More ›
Hotels in Mississippi, 1938
I don’t usually publish lists, but this one is interesting enough for research purposes that I thought I would type it up. Although I found this 4-page typed list in an MDAH subject file called “Jackson Hotels and Motels, 1900-1979,”… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 2-2-2015
Kiss those Kress neon signs good-bye, Meridianites, in a “preservation” project that defies the definition of preservation.
Abandoned Mississippi: Pinewood Motor Court
Three years ago, after a long day of bumping around Vicksburg looking at cool old stuff, I decided to take one of my favorite stretches of highway back to Jackson, Highway 80 between Vicksburg and Edwards. It was about this… Read More ›
From the Age of Hi-Fi to Wi-Fi…the Rex Plaza in Tupelo
Those passing Gloster Square at 619 North Gloster Street in Tupelo might easily miss the significance of the place. The low-slung buildings hardly suggest the sleek modern look that once heralded a new age of travel in Mississippi. Builder Cy… Read More ›
Mississippi by Air: Biloxi’s Buena Vista Hotel-Motel
The Buena Vista Hotel-Motel, Biloxi, Miss., convention center on the Golden Mississippi Gulf Coast, offers the finest in modern Hotel-Motel accommodations. Complete convention and resort facilities on U.S. Highway 90.
Architectural Siblings? Hotels Tupelo and Pinehurst
I recently was perusing the Boston Public Library’s Tichnor Brothers Collection. This collection contains approximately 25,000 office proofs of postcards of the United States published by the Boston firm Tichnor Brothers Inc. These are touristy color postcards dated circa 1930-1945. There are… Read More ›
Vacation Postcards: Court Royale, Clarksdale
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: El’s Motel, Forest
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
White House Hotel Nears Completion
Just a quick photo update of the White House Hotel. The exterior work appears to have come a far piece since our last update three months ago. It is awesome to see the historic windows retained! The pool under restoration……. Read More ›
Mississippi Time Travel
If you are a Google maps user you may have noticed that Google finally took me up on my idea to make multiple generations of its street views visible. (It’s scary to think if I say stuff loud enough in… Read More ›
Mississippi Unbuilt: Alternative appearances for two lost landmarks
I enjoy viewing architectural renderings of buildings. They often show a structure as its designer intended and depict the building at its peak of glory, though often the reality of a situation sets in and prevents that pinnacle design from… Read More ›
Biloxi’s White House Hotel Reborn
In a story similar to that of the King Edward Hotel in Jackson, after almost thirty years of vacancy a Biloxi landmark will be restored. On February 17 WLOX reported that according to its developers the White House Hotel is… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-6-2014
Good Morning MissPres community and a Happy New Year to everyone on our first News Roundup of 2014. Some of you may remember that I used to do the News Roundups a few years ago. I am kicking off the… Read More ›
Vacation Postcards: LaFont Inn, Pascagoula
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: Pinehurst Hotel, Laurel
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: Sea Isles Hotel Court, Gulfport
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: Washington Court, Natchez
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
The Buena Vista and a Hyperbolic Parabaloid that should have been
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy I was glad to see that the Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District in New Jersey made it through relatively unscathed. This got me thinking about some of our lost motels on the Mississippi… Read More ›
Newspaper Clippings: Walthall Hotel When It Was New
I hate to see the Walthall Hotel in downtown Jackson still closed and wonder what lies in its future. The Clarion-Ledger ran an article last week “Let’s make a (hotel) deal” about the building being in receivership: “It (looks) better than… Read More ›
Vacation Postcards: Naaman’s Motel, Greenwood
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: Magnolia Motor Hotel, Vicksburg
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: Hotel Lamar, Meridian
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: Jackson TraveLodge
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Before and After: Admiral Benbow Inn, Jackson
I haven’t done a Before-and-After in a while, but one of yesterday’s masonry screens came from the old Admiral Benbow Inn (now Admiral Retirement Center) and reminded me I had an old postcard from its glory days of colorful panels… Read More ›
Mississippi Architect, August 1964: “Assembly Line” Holiday Inn
In his editorial for August 1964, Mississippi Architect editor and Jackson architect Bob Henry calls architects to public service. If you know an architect, odds are, he or she is serving on a board of some kind, whether public or… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 