I was traveling most of this last week, but thanks to the internet was able to keep tabs on preservation news. Believe it or not, December is approaching and so are holiday events in and around historic districts and buildings… Read More ›
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MissPres News Roundup 11-8-2010
No big intro this week – let’s jump right into the news: The weekly papers covering Waynesboro and Water Valley have recently published stories about how each community is looking at establishing National Register Districts. The meetings local officials have… Read More ›
History of Art in Mississippi: Seats of Government
Today we continue with our trek through the chapter on “Architecture in Public Buildings” from the 1929 book History of Art in Mississippi. As we’ve noted before, this book was the result of a highly collaborative effort, mostly by women… Read More ›
History of Art in Mississippi: Modern Office Structures
Today, we continue our Book Quotes series on the 1929 book, History of Art in Mississippi, which devotes a surprising amount of space to architecture. Like the author of the WPA Guide’s chapter on architecture, the ladies who compiled HoAiM… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 10-25-2010
Well, it’s been a while since I actually had to compose a news roundup. I hope I can still remember how. ———————————– A sad event in the life of Crystal Springs happened this week, when a fire destroyed four buildings… Read More ›
Architect Pics: Reuben Harrison Hunt of Chattanooga
While I was in Chattanooga last week, I decided to see if I could find the gravestone of Chattanooga architect R.H. Hunt, who designed a wealth of landmarks around Mississippi and throughout the Southeast from the 1890s through the early… Read More ›
Vacation Postcards: Holiday Inn, Jackson
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Three Round Banks
When I was in Meridian looking at the old Sears building last week, I discovered for the first time (although I’ve driven past them numerous times) two mid-century banks in the same area. They reminded me of a former bank… Read More ›
Two Fire Updates
As you may recall from a News Roundup in June, the Gothic Revival-style Capitol Street Church of Christ suffered a fire that apparently started from a lightning strike. At the time, the Clarion-Ledger article mentioned that the primary damage was… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 10-3-2010
I think it’s evidence of a long hot summer when 62 degrees feels like winter, but that’s where I am right now. On to the news . . . ——————————— It seems the on-going maintenance and renovation of the New… Read More ›
Mississippi Architect, July 1963: Architect’s Office
Ok, if you hate Modernism, or if you love Craftsman bungalows, or if your name is W. White, you might just want to stop reading right now. Today’s post, a reprint of the feature article in the July 1963 issue… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 9-27-2010
Well, Fall has possibly arrived for good in Mississippi, as of yesterday, but I for one am not getting my hopes up. I got .11 inches of rain at my house–maybe y’all got more. What’s been going on round these… Read More ›
Friday Just for Fun
Now that I’ve been mentally freed (thanks, W!) to post the News Roundups on Mondays, I can leave Friday for something light and fun if I want to, and this week, we ask a light and fun question of terminology…. Read More ›
Architect Pics: William Nichols (1780-1853)
Well ok, this isn’t a traditional architect picture post. In fact, I don’t know that a picture exists of our own esteemed William Nichols–I don’t have Ford Peatross’ William Nichols’ Architect handy in front of me. Nichols was one of… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 9-20-2010
Could the horrible summer weather we’ve been having be a punishment of some kind, maybe for the demolition of the Central Delta Academy, or since it started before that, the project at the Naval Reserve Center? Or am I reading… Read More ›
Jackson’s Fondren Neighborhood: Historic and Hip
Pretty much everywhere I go lately, someone asks me, “Have you read The Help?” “No,” I reply, “I’m waiting for the movie.” Not only will seeing the movie save me time, it will also showcase my neighborhood, the hippest, coolest… Read More ›
Mississippi Architect, June 1963: Reid Residence
The second article from the June 1963 Mississippi Architect is about a house in Jackson’s Woodland Hills neighborhood, the Reid House. Those of you who have been around MissPres for a while may remember that this house was featured in… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 8-20-2010
Three weeks of August down, only one and a little bit to go. We can do it, y’all! This week’s roundup has lots of national stories in it, I don’t know why. ————————————- NPR had a fascinating story on All… Read More ›
Newspaper Clippings: Save Downtown Jackson
We haven’t done a newspaper clipping post in a while, and given yesterday’s post about the Naval Reserve Center down by the fairgrounds in downtown Jackson, I thought this one would be appropriate. First some context: when we walk down… Read More ›
Demolition begins on Jackson’s Naval Reserve Center
Workers have been spotted at the Naval Reserve Center behind the Old Capitol in Jackson over the last week removing windows, interior debris, and sections of the rear wings in preparation for the demolition of most of the rear wings… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 8-13-2010
Long ago in the Year of our Lord 2007, the first two weeks of August, expected to be hot and steamy and muggy and generally uncomfortable, instead became cool, with lows even into the 50s at night, gloriously cool nights… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 7-30-2010
Can you believe July is almost over? Since August is my least favorite month, I’ll be taking my summer vacation next week. You may say, “Good grief, Malvaney just took a long vacation in April!” To which I would respond,… Read More ›
Book Quotes: Southern Mantel and Tile Catalog
I haven’t done a book quotes in a while, and I’m not sure this particular book qualifies, but I’ll say it does. A while back, I found a catalog published by the Jackson company Southern Mantel and Tile around 1908…. Read More ›
Unsheathing the Past…The Checkered History of the Walthall Hotel
Jackson’s Walthall Hotel opened its doors in the spring of 1929. Named for Confederate General Edward Cary Walthall, the hotel opened as an eight story building on Jackson’s bustling Capitol Street, just a few steps away from the Governor’s Mansion…. Read More ›
Blog Roundup
Since many of the lucky ones are off work today to recover from too much fun/food in the sun yesterday, it might be the better part of valor for me to just do a post catching y’all up on interesting… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 7-2-2010
Well, other than an ongoing gusher of oil spilling into our Gulf, destroying wildlife, killing my redfish, fouling beaches and marshes, and an early-season hurricane washing it all in faster, what else has been going on in our Magnolia State… Read More ›
Now-angry buildings were once carefree mid-century moderns
Yesterday’s picture of the former Petroleum Building in Jackson brought out the inner-Modernists in all of us, a fun jaunt back to a time when colorful buildings were considered not only fashionable but suitable for the headquarters of an oil… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 