A lot of news from this past week to share before we kick off the latest round of “Name This Place”: Gulfport Library is back in the news this week (for those not up on this issue, see the “Backstory”… Read More ›
Demolition/Abandonment
MissPres News Round-up 4-2-2012
No fooling – it’s April already. Don’t forget the Statewide Conference at the end of the month. And now, the news. I’m going to start this week with bad news out of Smithville. The story from this community is “that… Read More ›
Warren Port Commission Moves Again to Destroy Ceres
According to Alan Huffman’s blog, the Warren County Port Commission is on the warpath again in its ongoing quest to demolish the main house at Ceres Plantation. Read all about it here. Ceres Plantation, a rare surviving example of a… Read More ›
Abandoned: Vaughan, Mississippi
Recently I decided to take the Vaughan exit off I-55 to see how this little hamlet was doing. It’s been a while since I was through, maybe 2004 or 2005, but even then it seemed like things were slipping away…. Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 2-27-2012
March is almost upon us – and the MissPres calendar has all the events that are “Springing” up around the state. One to add to the calendar is the Loose Caboose Festival in Newton – which is this Saturday. And… Read More ›
Dear Baptist Hospital: Please Save This Building!
A concerned reader passed along the discouraging news that the old Patterson-Bradford Rexall Drug Store on N. State Street in Jackson may soon fall victim to yet more Baptist Hospital expansion. I hope Baptist will re-consider: this building’s architecturally significance… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 2-13-2012
Happy Monday! Here’s the latest preservation news from around the state: We’ll start on the Coast where 33rd Avenue School in Gulfport is back in the news. If you remember from a couple of posts last summer (here and here),… Read More ›
To Be or Not To Be, That Was the Question
Three years and one day ago after a full day of painting on my house renovation project, I sat down at my computer and started a blog. I had never started a blog before. I thought it would be an… Read More ›
Biloxi’s Blighted Banking Buildings Blowup (not really but they are getting demolished)
JRGordon first reported on the city of Biloxi’s blighted property list back in an early November round-up. The list is starting to generate either repairs or demolitions as reported recently by the Sun Herald. While most buildings on the list… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 2-6-2012
We have a short-ish round up this week – meaning that you will still have plenty of time to search for the most popular commercials from this year’s Super Bowl. Our first story this week is in regards to the… Read More ›
Corinth Machinery Building, 1869-2012
As JRGordon noted in last week’s News Roundup, the long-abandoned and highly endangered Corinth Machinery Building, built in 1869, suffered a large partial collapse in that weekend’s heavy storms. As you might remember from a post back in January 2010,… Read More ›
Two Photo Essays on Endangered Places
Check out these two recent photo essays on endangered historic places in Mississippi: “Decaying History” on the Modern Southerner blog, and “A beautiful dogtrot house, fading slowly away” on NMissCommentor.
MissPres News Roundup 1-23-2012
Disclaimer: I just roundup the news stories, so don’t shoot the messenger . . . Might as well start with the worst of it . . . the crazy weather lately has causes major damage to the Corinth Machinery Building. … Read More ›
Is that a hole in First Christian?
Just before the New Year, MissPres reader “M” (who, I’m told, is a first cousin twice removed from James Bond’s “Q”), alerted us in a comment left on “Friends We Lost in 2011” that there appears to be a large… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-17-2012
Wow! We’re already into the 3rd week of January. I know our friends at MDAH are busy this week – National Register Nominations will be considered at their Review Board meeting on Thursday and their Board of Trustees meets Friday… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-3-2012
Happy New Year MissPres! I was on vacation for the holidays – but preservation in the news kept going (and thanks to Malvaney and Theodore who helped make sure I didn’t miss these stories while I was gone). Unfortunately, the… Read More ›
Auld Lang Syne: Friends We Lost in 2011
As is traditional in this quiet week after Christmas and before New Years, we look back at the year and recount our wins and losses. We usually start with the “sad list” of buildings who lost their battle against time… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 11-21-2011
Since I can’t resist the joke – this week’s Roundup is stuffed with tidbits from around the state . . . Now that the joke’s out of my system, let’s get to the actual news. First, wonderful news from the… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 10-17-2011
Compared to the last couple of Mondays, this week’s roundup feels pretty short. So after you’ve caught up on the news, go check out the voting on the Delta Poll for our 101 Places list. We’re going to start in… Read More ›
Going Inside: St. Dominic’s Chapel
A while back, reader Gary E. Magee commented on an old post about Jackson architect Tom Biggs that one of Bigg’s designs, the chapel at St. Dominic hospital, is slated for demolition in a planned expansion of the adjacent emergency area…. Read More ›
“Because for instance the Meridian Hotel is much older, we feel it’s best to tear it down”
Back in June’s “Rumblings and Bumblings from Meridian” I noted some rumors about the possible demolition of downtown Meridian’s Meridian Hotel, built in 1910 as one of the first “skyscrapers” in Meridian, and an anchor of the downtown historic district… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 8-15-2011
This week’s Roundup makes me feel like I’m in a bad sequel to a previous summer blockbuster film like Jaws: The Revenge. Okay, so maybe comparing it to one of the worst films ever made exaggerates this week’s news a… Read More ›
Saving 33rd Avenue High School
The Sun Herald has a positive report on the efforts of the 33rd Avenue High School Alumni Association and MDAH to restore the once segregated Gulfport high school.
Lamar County Courthouse, Bless Its Heart
JRGordon’s mention of the planned renovations of the Lamar County Courthouse in Monday’s News Roundup gave me the perfect opportunity to jump back into blogging after lounging about while Susassippi and JR took over the last couple of weeks. A few… Read More ›
Destroying Modern Architecture?!
The Blog of the Preservation Research Office has an interesting post entitled “Destroying Modern Architecture in St. Louis” regarding the St. Louis Pruitt Igoe Housing Project among other St. Louis modern architecture icons. The post discusses some of the issues… Read More ›
Caillavet Street Bridge 1926-2011
It happened with so little fanfare that hardly anyone seemed to notice the demolition of the Caillavet Street bridge. This bridge once carried Caillavet Street to the north shore of back bay where Biloxi’s Caillavet Street became Central Avenue in… Read More ›
Capitol Street Methodist Is Falling Down
Once it was a landmark of growth and progress, only the second Methodist congregation in Jackson, just across the railroad tracks in the fashionable new suburban area being laid out on West Capitol Street. Then it became the symbol of… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 