To play this exciting week-long game, see The Rules. Congratulations to Joseph A for grabbing the first points yesterday. Today we’ll go to a different part of the state and a different era. Current Standings: Joseph A: 2 points tsj1957:… Read More ›
In response to a reader’s request after last week’s School for the Blind post, it seemed only fitting that I follow up that first-ever in the “Abandoned Mississippi” series with a first-ever “Lost Mississippi” post about the institution that preceded… Read More ›
Somewhat of a slow week in the news this week, at least as far as preservation in Mississippi is concerned. Happy Friday! July 2, 2009: From the Greenwood Commonwealth, “Inferno Consumes Most of Downtown Block” July 2, 2009: A photographic… Read More ›
One of my personal landmarks on Hwy. 98, just before you get to the Lucedale exit(s), is the Bexley School, a small frame building standing off on a red-dirt hill on the north side of the highway. At first glance,… Read More ›
I know this isn’t a particularly preservationist thing to say, but one of the things I love to do is find abandoned places and explore and take photographs of them. I guess part of it is the thrill of discovery,… Read More ›
Ol’ “Eagle Eyes” Malvaney caught this exciting announcement on MDAH’s website yesterday, which not coincidentally was the first day of the state’s fiscal year: $2M Available for Preservation Projects Statewide The 2009 Legislature has authorized the seventh round of the… Read More ›
To play this exciting game, see The Rules. Current Standings: Carunzel: 3 tsj1957: 2 doakley: 1 Everyone Else: 0 (still plenty of time to catch up!) Hint: This place has never appeared in Preservation in Mississippi or on my Flickr… Read More ›
Fire broke out at Laurel’s Stewart M. Jones Middle School last Friday evening, gutting one of the three wings of the historic building. The school building, one of the finest examples of high-style Georgian Revival in the state, was built in 1927… Read More ›
The Vicksburg Post has published a follow-up to its earlier story about the impending demolition of Speed Street School (1894), one of a handful of 19th century public school buildings left in the state. I posted previously on this topic a couple of… Read More ›
I had occasion to visit Waveland this week and saw that the old Waveland School, a brick building built in 1920, is completing finishing touches before its grand re-opening. As many of us know, Waveland took a straight shot from Katrina,… Read More ›
I saw this article last week, but since it’s pretty much a done deal and because it’s so depressing, I decided I didn’t want to destroy the beautiful symmetry of my Jane Jacobs’ series to insert it into last week’s… Read More ›
Here’s sending good thoughts to Carr Central–an amazing 1920s school and Vicksburg landmark. I still don’t understand why the historic preservation tax credits amounting to, I think, 45% of the total cost, aren’t enough to get this project going, but… Read More ›
A few days ago I made the incredibly long trip up to the Far North, to Union and Tippah Counties and Holly Springs. When you have to make such a trip, you’re always torn between scheduling as much as possible so… Read More ›
Those who know me well (and to know me is to love me, am I right? :-) are aware that I have a horror of debt. I try very hard to live within my means, and I would like my government to… Read More ›
On a whim, I took advantage of this fine February Friday to take a jaunt up to Columbus and see a few sites and meet a few people. Columbus isn’t as old as Natchez, but by the 1850s, Columbus had enough fine… Read More ›
Over at Preservation in Pink Kaitlin muses about the “Urban Exploration Movement.” She asks: “Urban Explorers aren’t the typical preservationists, but are their hearts in the right place? Or would something like this have a negative effect? After all, preservation is more than… Read More ›
More specific information from the Christian Science Monitor about what the allegedly final stimulus package contains: Local school districts get to divvy up $40 billion for paying teachers and school upgrades. But importantly for preservation and in contrast to Pres. Obama’s statements about… Read More ›
Always on the prowl for news that might affect historic schools, I found this in the New York Times summary of the almost-passed stimulus bill: The plan would shower the nation’s school districts, child care centers and university campuses with $150… Read More ›
Kaitlin brought up in her comment about President Obama’s rather disparaging reference to historic schools that the National Trust has done a lot of work in the past decade or so to help local citizens talk to their school boards… Read More ›
Some thoughts from the National Trust blog about President Obama’s statement during his press conference last night. Here’s what he said that made me (and I think a lot of us who love old buildings) go “AAAAAK!” “Education — yet… Read More ›
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