MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
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Vacation Postcards: Magnolia Motor Hotel, Vicksburg
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: Hotel Lamar, Meridian
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: Jackson TraveLodge
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Scagliola
Its time for another MissPres Architectural Word of the Week! Our word this week is one spicy meatball of a word that comes all the way from Italy. It is is brought to you by the letter S as defined… Read More ›
Before and After: Admiral Benbow Inn, Jackson
I haven’t done a Before-and-After in a while, but one of yesterday’s masonry screens came from the old Admiral Benbow Inn (now Admiral Retirement Center) and reminded me I had an old postcard from its glory days of colorful panels… Read More ›
In Praise of Masonry Screens
I’ve pretty much fallen in love with masonry screens since I first started noticing them a few years ago. Most popular in the 1950s through 1970s, these decorative concrete block are a low-cost way to create a wall, provide privacy… Read More ›
Meridian Federal Courthouse makes the New York Times
Thanks to MissPreser John C for passing along this link to an article in the New York Times this week, “Last Chapter for a Court with a Place in History.” The Meridian Star has recently announced that the federal courthouse… Read More ›
Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Inside View of Progress on the Taborian Hospital
Ever since my first glimpse of the Taborian Hospital, I have waited for the day I would be able to go inside. Abatement complete and the general clean-up done, and the long-awaited trip inside became reality last month. I am… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 9-10-2012
With Isaac cleared out and the nicer temperatures settled in, I’d say it’s the perfect time to venture around the state to see some cool old places. Speaking of Isaac – judging from the lack of news, I’d say our… Read More ›
MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Return
I hope every one has made it through Isaac well. I don’t ever remember a storm lasting nearly so long, and it looks like we might have the spawn of Isaac becoming a Tropical Storm…. but its time for another… Read More ›
Rev. H.D. Dennis (1916-2012)
Rev. H.D. Dennis, who created a “visionary art environment” or “Bible Castle” around his wife’s rural store Margaret’s Grocery north of Vicksburg, died September 5, 2012. Margaret herself died in 2010, and the Grocery has been decaying ever since. Our… Read More ›
Mississippi Architect, September 1964: Moss Point Municipal Building
The new Moss Point Municipal Building, designed by H.F. Fountain of Biloxi was the subject of the September 1964 issue of Mississippi Architect magazine. Unfortunately, this building’s life was cut short by Hurricane Katrina, as I believe it flooded like… Read More ›
Mississippi Architect, September 1964: At the Beginning of the Mississippi Museum of Art
Most of us have probably been to the Mississippi Museum of Art in downtown Jackson for one reason or another. For a small-state art museum, they put on some pretty big shows while also keeping it real with their Mississippi… Read More ›
Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Howry-Hull House, aka Fiddler’s Folly
The intense humidity post-Isaac has left me wanting to stay closer to home these days, so there have been no recent road trips. I took a few sweaty minutes to wander up the tree-lined North Lamar Historic District Sunday afternoon… Read More ›
Happy Labor Day
In honor of Labor Day, which according to the Dept. of Labor webpage is “a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers,” I thought it might be worthwhile to reprint… Read More ›
More Reports from the Isaac Front
More reports trickle in from the around the state as Isaac has finally trundled off, except for a couple of feeder bands that soaked me late Thursday night as I tried to walk my dog. Thomas Rosell sent in a… Read More ›
Early Reports Are Good from Biloxi
After the longest, determinedest tropical storm/hurricane most of us have ever endured, we’re finally starting to calm down a bit from Isaac here in Mississippi. Thomas Rosell reports from Biloxi that he lost electricity around 3 this morning but is… Read More ›
Lost Mississippi: Father Ryan House, Biloxi (1841-2005)
On this 7th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we think of our friends and landmarks on the Gulf Coast and hope to see them on the other side of Hurricane Isaac. Meanwhile, we pause to remember another one of our landmarks… Read More ›
Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Senatobia High School
Senatobia High School was constructed in 1938, apparently as a project of the Works Progress Administration (National Register of Historic Places nomination form, John L. Hopkins, 1993). The Art Moderne auditorium is located on the approximate original site of the… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 8-28-2012
A storm seems to be headed our way – maybe. Those of you closer to the coast, take the proper precautions and stay safe. Here’s the preservation news that made the rounds this week: Starting off in Natchez, The Democrat… Read More ›
MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Quatrefoil
Time for another MissPres Architectural Word of the Week. As we move right along through the alphabet, you can check out our past words here. This week’s word is a Gothic and Renaissance (both original and revival) architecture staple, but… Read More ›
Modernist Storefronts of Pascagoula
Pascagoula, better known for its colonial-period Old Spanish Fort (aka De le Pointe-Krebs House), actually has some really interesting mid-20th-century buildings for the architectural explorer to examine. The commercial strip on Delmas Avenue in particular, although partially covered as a downtown “mall” as part of an urban renewal scheme in the 1970s, still has a few nicely done Modernist storefronts.
Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Tate County Courthouse
I think it is part of my nature that I tend to root for the underdog. When it comes to things like world peace and hunger and poverty, this is hugely important. When it comes to the 101 Places in… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 8-20-2012
This has been the week of National Register-related news around the state. Recent additions to the NR: Moss Point Historic District. According to the story, it sounds like the city is interested in seeking funding for signage to spotlight their… Read More ›
Lost Mississippi: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fuller House
Forty-three years ago today, Mississippi lost one of its handful of Frank Lloyd Wright designs, a house in Pass Christian known as the Fuller House. Located at 317 Sandy Hook Drive, the house, designed in 1951, was considered part of… Read More ›
Gulf Park Update
Intrepid MissPreser and Gulf Coast preservation reporter Mark Davis took note of recent comments on the March 2010 Gulf Park post and went down to the campus, located right on Beach Boulevard in Long Beach, to see the state of things… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 