This week’s word is brought to you by the letter T as defined by William J. Hornung’s Architectural Drafting:
Building Types
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 ›
Meridian Federal Courthouse makes the New York Times
Thanks to MissPreser John C for passing along this link to an article in the New York Times this week, “Last Chapter for a Court with a Place in History.” The Meridian Star has recently announced that the federal courthouse… Read More ›
Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Inside View of Progress on the Taborian Hospital
Ever since my first glimpse of the Taborian Hospital, I have waited for the day I would be able to go inside. Abatement complete and the general clean-up done, and the long-awaited trip inside became reality last month. I am… Read More ›
MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Return
I hope every one has made it through Isaac well. I don’t ever remember a storm lasting nearly so long, and it looks like we might have the spawn of Isaac becoming a Tropical Storm…. but its time for another… Read More ›
Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Senatobia High School
Senatobia High School was constructed in 1938, apparently as a project of the Works Progress Administration (National Register of Historic Places nomination form, John L. Hopkins, 1993). The Art Moderne auditorium is located on the approximate original site of the… Read More ›
MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Quatrefoil
Time for another MissPres Architectural Word of the Week. As we move right along through the alphabet, you can check out our past words here. This week’s word is a Gothic and Renaissance (both original and revival) architecture staple, but… Read More ›
Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Tate County Courthouse
I think it is part of my nature that I tend to root for the underdog. When it comes to things like world peace and hunger and poverty, this is hugely important. When it comes to the 101 Places in… Read More ›
Welcome To Our Fine City
Many towns use their historic (or newer) water tanks to announce their name to visitors, such as Mendenhall or nearby Magee. But others go the extra mile, getting creative with landscaping to bring their name closer to earth. Possibly the… Read More ›
Gulf Park Update
Intrepid MissPreser and Gulf Coast preservation reporter Mark Davis took note of recent comments on the March 2010 Gulf Park post and went down to the campus, located right on Beach Boulevard in Long Beach, to see the state of things… Read More ›
MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Pilaster
Time for another MissPres Architectural Word of the Week. As we move right along through the alphabet, you can check out our past words here. Have you been keeping an eye out for these elements like I have? This week’s… Read More ›
Suzassippi’s Mississippi: St John the Baptist Catholic Church
Another building that failed to make the final 101 Places in Mississippi to see before you die list is St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Sardis. It took only 1% of the vote in the Holly Springs/Oxford area of the… Read More ›
Going Inside: MSU’s Chapel of Memories
We had a little fun at MSU’s expense in yesterday’s “MSU’s Love Affair With Building Plaques,” but the truth is, MSU has many many great buildings on its campus. In fact, I’m going out on the limb here to assert… Read More ›
MSU’s Love Affair With Building Plaques
I was up at Mississippi State University recently and decided to walk through a building I had never actually seen inside before, the Bost Extension Center. As always, I made sure to check out the plaque in the lobby telling… Read More ›
W. A. Rayfield: Mt. Gilead Baptist Church
Back in February 2011, Malvaney ran a post about Wallace Augustus Rayfield, one of the first African American architects: Rayfield, a native of Georgia, was educated at Howard, Columbia and the Pratt Institute, and taught architecture and drafting at Tuskegee… Read More ›
Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Leland M. E. Church, South
The Leland Methodist Church was constructed 1923-24 in a Mission, Spanish Revival style. The MDAH HRI database references similarity of the design of the Fayette, Alabama Methodist Church in crediting the architect (T. L. Brodie, conjectured) and builder (L. Vance, conjectured)…. Read More ›
Going Inside: Brookhaven P.O.
Listed on the National Register both individually and as part of the Downtown Brookhaven Historic District, the Brookhaven Post Office is an impressive building. It’s also surrounded by impressive buildings, including the First Methodist Church and the Whitworth College campus… Read More ›
Abandoned Mississippi: Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital
Now that we have hope for the future of Mound Bayou’s Taborian Hospital, maybe we can renew some energy for Yazoo City’s earlier Afro American Sons and Daughters Hospital, long abandoned and disappearing beneath ravenous vines. Mississippi’s first hospital for… Read More ›
And then there were four . . .
We’ve been worried about the steep decline of the landmark Mississippi Industrial College property, especially the oldest building, Cathrine Hall (1905), which suffered structural damage in a storm back in 2009, damage that wasn’t addressed and quickly escalated into wholesale… Read More ›
Mississippi Architect, August 1964: Greenville Motor Bank
The August 1964 issue of the Mississippi Architect magazine features a building type that I hadn’t even noticed on the landscape until Thomas Rossell started pointing it out to me: the motor bank, better known to us today as the… 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 ›
Mississippi by Air: School for the Deaf, Jackson
For a current view of the campus, check out the Birdseye view on Bing: http://binged.it/M3tmJW and see if you can spot which original buildings are still there.
MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Mushroom Capital
Time for another MissPres Architectural Word of the Week. As we move right along through the alphabet, you can check out our past words here. Have you been keeping an eye out for these elements like I have? While only… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 