Click here to view the most up-to-date MissPres Collection of Mississippi Preservation Guidelines. Any Mississippi town with a historic preservation commission that oversees a local historic district very likely has a set of design guidelines. These guidelines offer general design and technical recommendations… Read More ›
E. L. Malvaney’s War Memorial building has been featured a number of times on MissPres, generally on Memorial Day (at least 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015), but also Veteran’s Day, and once in a stupendous-as-only-the-other-E L Malvaney-can-do post, we got… Read More ›
Events this week: Freen Melrose Tours, Delta Modern, Movie Night. Plus all the Mississippi preservation news that’s fit to print from Oxford to Natchez, from Gulfport to Greenville, and point in between, delivered direct to your computer, tablet, phablet, or other mobile device.
The headquarters for the Mississippi Federation of Women’s Clubs, constructed in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration, was designed by architect R. W. Naef in the Georgian-Revival style (Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory). According to the… Read More ›
Green Derby New Restaurant Being Built A handsome new dining place is under construction in West Jackson to be operated by the Green Derby Restaurant for the Drake Motel. Wise Construction Company of Jackson is building the 4,000 square foot… Read More ›
The true, for-real last article from the original Mississippi Architect.
Murder, mayhem, and money top the list of news items in this week’s MissPres News Roundup.
The last issue of the first run of Mississippi Architect, published monthly from February 1963 through March 1965, highlighted Whitten Junior High School in Jackson, a building constructed in 1960 as a close twin of Chastain Middle School in northeast… Read More ›
Well, I have played hookey from the news roundup for so long that my list of articles was starting to really look at me askance, so to catch us all up, how about one of those Cliff Notes versions that… Read More ›
Last week, we were introduced to Blanche Butler Ames (1847-1939), wife of Adelbert Ames, a Massachusetts native and former Union general who served two non-consecutive terms as governor during Reconstruction. Young Blanche entered the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion with some trepidation, unimpressed by… Read More ›
Recently, I came across an interesting description of the Governor’s Mansion published in a book called Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: Family Letters of Blanche Butler and Adelbert Ames, in Two Volumes. This is not a source I would have… Read More ›
Noah Webster Overstreet moved back to his native Mississippi from his architectural training in Urbana, Illinois in 1912 at the age of 24 (see Thomas Rosell’s post “Young N.W. Overstreet“). Newly married to an Illinois native, he set up practice in Jackson,… Read More ›
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a proper news roundup, so we have lots to catch up on (or “on up which to catch”?). A couple of stories and videos in the last few weeks have kept us updated… Read More ›
If you were in downtown Jackson last week, you might have noticed that the scaffolding on the New Capitol got significantly higher, and by Tuesday had covered the very top, where the golden eagle perches. What’s going on up there?… Read More ›
Today’s will be a Cliff’s Notes version of the News Roundup, since I spent the weekend planting flowers and other growing things instead of doing important news gathering. The Natchez Democrat reports that Arbuthnot’s Grocery, a rural store built in… Read More ›
New Airport Dedication Set Next Wednesday Open House From 9 til 5 Officials and civic leaders of Jackson will proudly dedicate a highly anticipated modern new airport at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 24th. Keyed to the jet age, the outstandingly… Read More ›
From the Coast to Columbus, from Jackson to the Delta and points in between, preservationists get down and dirty in old barns looking for original windows, fight in the legislature for historic tax credits, and pass on pilgrimage traditions to new preservationists. Read all about it in this week’s News Roundup.
Jacksonians: Where is this Apartment building? From the 1937 Guide to Better Homes, prepared by American Builder and Building Age. INCOME PRODUCER J. Peyton McKay Apartments Jackson, Miss. FOUR 3-room apartment of modern layout and high efficiency are built into this… Read More ›
In addition to the double-page advertisement shown below and the description of the benefits of Jax-Lite concrete blocks reprinted in yesterday’s post, the Jackson Daily News devoted space in its June 13, 1954 issue to a description of the Jackson Ready-Mix… Read More ›
The recent Mad Mod Eastover tour and the review published here last week introduced me to the Lovelace House and its construction material, a lightweight concrete block known as “Jax-Lite.” I knew I had seen that name somewhere, and when I… Read More ›
I know you’re probably exhausted, as I am, from a weekend of revelry in celebration of Pi Day, but alas, it’s time to get down to business. First, a nice story on WLOX about the 1913 Webb School in Bay St. Louis,… Read More ›
Today’s aerial views of Jackson in 1941 come from the C.W. Witbeck Collection at MDAH, conveniently scanned for us and available online on Flickr. Those of you familiar with Jackson will see immediately that Mr. Witbeck took these from high atop the… Read More ›
Today’s review of the recent Mad Mod Eastover tour is brought to you by longtime MissPres reader and commenter Neel Reid. ———————————— It’s hard to classify modernism in architecture. Advances in technology and new materials shaped much of the movement,… Read More ›
When I bought this postcard, I assumed it depicted the interior of what I knew as Dennery’s Restaurant, over on the east side of the state fairgrounds, but then I saw the address on Silas Brown Street. Was Dennery’s really… Read More ›
Hear the latest from Starkville’s Cotton Mill project, MHT’s Mad Mod Affair, Jackson’s McRae’s building renovation, Pascagoula’s gala for LaPointe Krebs House, and learn about an amazing preservationist from Pass Christian.
At long last I have finally gotten around to starting a series on the Craftsman style in Mississippi, something I promised to do two years ago. Hopefully, having it percolate around in my head for that long will make the… Read More ›
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