Recently, we’ve seen a spate of important landmark buildings up for sale around the state: Mt. Hope, Gillespie-Jackson House, among others. It seems to me that what they have in common is that they were saved or lovingly preserved by… Read More ›
Columbus
MissPres News Roundup 7-25-2017
Let’s jump right into this week’s roundup. The lead story this week is the partial collapse of McComb’s downtown theater. While it looks bad, hopefully an engineer with an understanding of historic buildings can be brought in to give a… Read More ›
Photographer John Margolies Images Now Available Online
Last year Malvaney’s post about roadside Americana photographer John Margolies ended with the wish that someday his photos, which had been donated to the Library of Congress, would be made available for the public to see. That day has arrived, my… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 7-11-2017
Two weeks since our last round-up and a lot has happened so let’s jump right into this week’s roundup. Starting on the coast in Gulfport, a new developer is taking over former Gulfport VA redevelopment project. Virginia Attorney Robert Lubin… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 6-28-2017
What happened to June? It’s hard to believe it’s almost over but let’s jump right into this week’s roundup. From Meridian two stories this week. The first is regarding preservation grant funds. According to the Meridian Star: The Charles L…. Read More ›
Friday is a Gas: Pan Am/Amoco Stations c.1930-c.1940
Per Malvaney’s request and the plethora of examples received in the comments to last Friday’s post, this week we’ll focus on the Pan Am/ Amoco Stations of the c.1930s-c.1940s. Unfortunately this station type is not listed in the handy-dandy 2016… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 4-4-2017
Let’s jump right on in to this week’s roundup. Pilgrimages are underway in Columbus, Natchez and Vicksburg. Follow the links below to see what’s going on in your neck of the woods. Attending events like these is a great way to… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 3-27-2017
This is our last round-up for March. It’s hard to believe that we are about to enter the second quarter of 2017 already. Let’s jump right on in to this week’s roundup. Since our last news round-up, MDAH has hosted another preservation… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 3-6-2017
We missed our round-up last week, and I feel a little behind on the preservation goings on in Mississippi but let’s jump right in to this week’s roundup. Over the next few weeks all across the state, the Mississippi Department of… Read More ›
Pick Your Spring Pilgrimage
Spring has sprung especially early this year in Mississippi, and when our thoughts turn to Spring, they automatically turn to the annual rite of Spring Pilgrimage, when historic homes in communities around the state are open for us to tour…. Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 2-21-2017
Lets jump right in, feet first to this week’s roundup. With their second week of good news in a row I am giving the City of Clinton the lead again. This week the news is the listing of Olde Towne Clinton to… Read More ›
Happy 25th, MHT!
Preservation in Mississippi celebrated its 8th birthday last week, but the Mississippi Heritage Trust is celebrating its 25th this week, and according to this press release, they’re throwing a party in Columbus to celebrate. Congratulations, MHT! The Mississippi Heritage Trust… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 2-13-2017
Lets jump right in, feet first to this week’s roundup. The big news this past week was in the City of Clinton where a property owner faces more than 1,400 code violations to historic buildings. The city is pulling no… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi Historic Real Estate
One of the common complaints about historic preservationists from non-historic preservationists, particularly of the internet troll variety, is that if preservationists want to save something they should buy it or shut up about it. This is an ignorant, internet troll-ish… Read More ›
Auld Lang Syne: Friends We Lost in 2016
Raise a toast to absent friends and historic places we lost in 2016.
MissPres News Roundup 12-12-2016
Unless something big happens in the next couple of weeks, this will be our last news roundup of 2016. The Daily Journal in Tupelo ran a nice article by M. Scott Morris about the ongoing work on the Chalmers Institute in… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 11-21-2016
Several preservation stories have popped up in the last couple of weeks, enough to squeeze in a Thanksgiving week news roundup to keep all y’all on top of things.
Mississippi’s Historic Playing Fields
It’s football time again folks. This reminded me of an excerpt of a news roundup from this spring… Rick Cleveland’s article “Hometown teams are what make Mississippi, Mississippi” highlights a Smithsonian exhibit that is about to begin touring Mississippi. “In… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 9-7-2016
This mid-week news round-up is less varied than last week’s round-up, but it still features some good information. Starting off with some concerning news regarding several large rehabilitation projects in both Gulfport and Natchez. In Gulfport, Virginia attorney Robert Lubin… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 8-15-2016
I admit, I’m watching the Olympics while writing this week’s news roundup, so . . . just fair warning, may be a little abbreviated. At Hinds Community College in Raymond, word came on August 1 of a fire at Williams… Read More ›
Your Southern Grandparents Loved Their Ranch Homes!
“The antebellum Southern plantation house, with its wide verandah and impressive pillars, is no longer the “dream home” of the South. The average Southern home buyer today is looking for a ranch-style house, built of brick, containing at least one pine-panelled room, and in the medium-price range.” Commercial Dispatch, 1953.
MissPres News Roundup 8-1-2016
Along with the rain we’ve been getting, I’ve been receiving showers of news roundup articles in my inbox. Thanks to all who have shared the stories from their neck of the woods. In Natchez, the City’s Historic Preservation Commission has… Read More ›
Mississippi Streets: 1960s Columbus
Same view as of May 2013, courtesy of Google streetview. Columbus has done a great job preserving and revitalizing their downtown, even that great Modernist department store, Ruth’s (which looks like it got paneled maybe around 1970?) that now houses… Read More ›
For Sale: 1323 3rd Avenue, North in Columbus – Save and Restore This House
This morning’s post was on historic houses that have quietly vanished in Columbus between 2009 and 2013. This post is about an opportunity to keep that fate from happening to another Columbus house. 1323 3rd Avenue, North is currently for… Read More ›
Four Years, Six Demolitions – Columbus’s Disappearing Historic Buildings Through Google Street View
I used Google Street View quite a bit to look around Columbus while writing this week’s series of posts on the inaugural 1940 Columbus Pilgrimage. Frankly, the armchair traveler has never had it better, as one can drive the streets… Read More ›
1940 Inaugural Columbus Pilgrimage – Star Homes
This week, in honor of the beginning of this year’s Columbus Spring Pilgrimage, Preservation in Mississippi has been writing about the inaugural Columbus Pilgrimage, held April 14-16, 1940. Monday’s post was a short introduction about the inaugural Pilgrimage, and yesterday’s… Read More ›
1940 Inaugural Columbus Pilgrimage – Tour of Homes
Yesterday, in honor of the beginning of this year’s Columbus Spring Pilgrimage, we had a short introduction to the inaugural Columbus Pilgrimage, held April 14-16, 1940. Today’s post contains information about the twenty-two antebellum homes featured in that inaugural Columbus… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 