Thinking of all our friends around the state who are picking up the pieces today from this week’s tornadoes. In honor of these great towns, where so many good things are happening, I thought I would share a story from… Read More ›
Historic Preservation
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 ›
Round Buildings from the Air
If you haven’t already, please read today’s important post regarding the recent MDAH Board of Trustees meeting. With several posts on the topic it may not be a surprise that I am a fan of satellite and aerial photography. I’ve… Read More ›
A Laconic Gauntlet Thrown
The past several posts about the threats and losses of Mississippi’s nationally significant and valuable historic resources have been heavy content. Today will hopefully be a break with some lighter fare, allowing us to recharge our efforts. Last week Malvaney unwittingly threw down… Read More ›
Dark Days
This Friday, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees will consider requests to demolish two Mississippi Landmarks and delist another, which pretty much amounts to the same thing.
Pass the Popcorn
Preservationists, pass the word (and the popcorn)-the long-awaited premier of Come Hell or High Water is finally here! Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek will air on WORLD Channel, on the series America Reframed on April… Read More ›
Old Capitol Energy Efficiency
In scouring the internet databases for unique and interesting things I ran across the New York Public Library’s George Arents Collection and its series of U.S. government and state capitol building cigarette cards. The series is interesting because this captures… Read More ›
My New Favorite Song
I spend lots of time in my car, traveling from one beautiful historic Mississippi town to the next. As soon as I get in range of Hattiesburg, I switch to USM Radio-you never know what they are going to play, which is… Read More ›
Pack Your Bags for Tupelo
Are you a certified, card-carrying preservationist? Do you stop to hug historic churches, schools and the occasional water tower? Is Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House your favorite movie? Then this year’s Listen Up! Historic Preservation Conference is the place for… Read More ›
Box, Slip, Jib, & Pocket windows
A topic I found very interesting came up recently in the Vernacular Architecture Forum list-serve. The discussion was about a Box Head style window. The Dictionary of Architecture and Construction defines a box-head window as the following: Box Head Window:-… Read More ›
Restoring Rural Mississippi – Clay County Agricultural High School in Pheba
For most of Mississippi’s history the state has been very rural in the sense that nearly all Mississippians lived in the countryside or in small towns not in cities. For every Vicksburg, Natchez, and Columbus were twenty or more small… Read More ›
Preservation Fail Corrected: Eugene P. Booze House
The Eugene P. Booze house, a “two-story American foursquare” with Colonial Revival detailing provides an excellent illustration of preservation fail, and thankfully, correction on inauthentic renovation (Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory). The c. 1910 home in… Read More ›
Three More Spring Events for Mississippi Preservationists
If you’re looking for somewhere to go other than one of the pilgrimages this Spring, maybe you’ll be interested in one of these events, all of which are dedicated to helping raise funds and awareness for a Mississippi historic building. Cotesworth,… Read More ›
Victory Lap!
It is tremendously rewarding to see a historic building that was once listed as endangered come back from neglect and decay. Those of you who live in the Delta have been watching the progress on the restoration of the Taborian Hospital with… Read More ›
Around the Mississippi Blogosphere
It’s been a while since MissPres toured the local blogs to see what is happening in the state, so since I am on travel delay for the time being, I thought a virtual trip to see what’s going on might… Read More ›
Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974–Holly Springs
This post is the third in a series reprinting the Mississippi Pilgrimage booklet of 1974.
Crisis Averted?
Update: Crisis Averted! The Mississippi State Historic Tax Credit had been reauthorized through December 31, 2017. Please be sure to thank your state elected officials for giving us this tremendously effective tool to make historic preservation happen in Mississippi. Historic preservationists had… Read More ›
Preservation Fail: Beta Theta Pi House
There is an interesting (sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, but generally always disastrous) site called Preservation Fail that I have been following for a while. Apparently, no geographic area holds dibs on preservation failures, and every time I would see one… Read More ›
Preservation Is Always In Style
On a recent trip to Jackson, I was introduced to the wacky and wonderful world of CHANE T-shirts. Not being from that part of the state, I don’t understand some of the slogans (Brandon versus Pearl?), but the preservation of… Read More ›
The NYA in Mississippi: Jeff Davis Vocational Building
As we have chronicled before, the National Youth Administration, one of the New Deal Administration programs from the 1930s, constructed some 66 documented and/or conjectured administration, classroom, gymnasium, home economics, shop/band hall and vocational buildings, along with several superintendent and… Read More ›
Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974
Recently I acquired a booklet called “Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974” which gives good coverage to all the pilgrimages going on in the state in the Spring of 1974. Since it’s pilgrimage time, I thought it would be good Friday fun to… Read More ›
Free to a Good Home
Wanted: Preservation-minded person(s) to give a piece of Pascagoula history a home. Guaranteed to provide happy new owner many fun hours of hammering, sawing, scraping and painting. Happy ghosts of various Delmas family members may come along for the… 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 ›
For Sale: Gulfport Historic Post Office
Back on June 15, 2011, Malvaney noted that the days of the impressive and historic Gulfport Post Office were numbered. You heard that right: in 2011/2012, 43 historic post offices were sold or put on the market, including this beauty… Read More ›
Road Trip!
Ever dreamed of exploring America’s rich architectural heritage with a group of fun, like-minded preservationists? It is your lucky day! The Historic Natchez Foundation is offering a six day trip to the Brandywine River Valley from May 13-18. As a… Read More ›
Architect Pics: Thomas Sully
Not long ago the Tulane University’s Southeastern Architectural Archive blog announced the recent compilation of the finding aid for their collection of documents from the office of Mississippi City born architect Thomas Sully. “The Southeastern Architectural Archive recently finalized the… Read More ›
Sardis Home Economics Building: Could it be a New Deal Building?
The former home economics building in Sardis–our last visit to the Sardis School Complex–was constructed in 1935 (Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database). Unfortunately, there is no other information about the building that I can locate… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 