JRGordon’s note about the pilgrimage in yesterday’s News Roundup reminded me that it is indeed about that time of year. In fact, with the crazily warm weather we’ve been having, it looks like the pilgrimages better get going soon before… Read More ›
Mississippi Towns
MissPres News Roundup 2-21-2011
I think Spring has sprung in the Magnolia State in the past week or so – which makes me very happy. If you’re like me, you’ve been enjoying the weather – but you may have missed some preservation news. Never… Read More ›
Out-of-State Architects and Mississippi Architecture from “The American School and University” 1928-1934
Yesterday’s post, “Mississippi Architects and Architecture from ‘The American School and University’ 1928-1934,” covered Mississippi architects and the school buildings they designed in Mississippi (and occasionally elsewhere). Since architectural practices rarely stay inside state lines, today’s post contains the listings… Read More ›
Mississippi Architects and Architecture from “The American School and University” 1928-1934
From 1928, the first year the American School Publishing Corporation in New York began publishing The American School and University: A Yearbook Devoted to the Design, Construction, Equipment, Utilization, and Maintenance of Educational Buildings and Grounds, until the Sixth Annual Edition… Read More ›
Reflecting on the Old Capitol
Yesterday was the second anniversary of Preservation in Mississippi, but in keeping with the tradition I began inadvertently last year, we will celebrate that grand occasion today instead. Since the very first post on MissPres–typed out on a whim before… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 2-8-2011
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m hoping the groundhog was right about an “early spring” – I’m not a fan of the ice and cold. Plus, as it warms up, we’ll all have more chances to… Read More ›
Vacation Postcards: Della’s Tourist Court, Brookhaven
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past. “Stayed here Thursday night, June 7, 1956.”
Vacation Postcards: Bill Will Motel, Canton
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
Vacation Postcards: Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts, Gulfport
MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.
MissPres News Roundup 1-31-2011
Wow! I can’t believe that we’re already at the end of January. Here’s a look at the news since our last round-up: Usually, we keep things focused on Mississippi preservation news, but a big story out of Virginia deserves a… Read More ›
Mississippi Architect, Sept 1963: Calvary Baptist Church, Meridian
The featured article in Mississippi Architect’s September 1963 issue is Calvary Baptist Church in Meridian. Calvary is still going strong it appears, and you can see a color picture of the interior and those long thin stained glass windows on… Read More ›
Biloxi Trolley Line Routes
Just by luck, only a few weeks after the Jackson Streetcar map appeared on MissPres, the City of Biloxi Public Works Department has created a map that shows the route of old trolley lines. The idea of the map is… Read More ›
Fires Take Their Toll
Yesterday we received the sad news that two adjacent buildings in downtown Biloxi’s small historic district burned down late Tuesday night. Included in the loss was Spanish Trail Books, one of Mississippi’s independent bookstores and a place that I regularly… Read More ›
Blink Twice and Arlington Might Vanish…
A disastrous fire swept through the attic story of Arlington on September 17th, 2002. The roof was repaired the following year and it was thought that the eventual restoration of the house would follow, if not immediately, then within a… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-18-2011
Although this roundup isn’t on our typical day, there’s been enough news this week to go ahead and post one this week. We’ll start with a story that most of you probably already know about – especially if you watched… Read More ›
Harry N. Austin, classic and unclassic Millsaps College
As you may recall from the post a few weeks back about Jackson architect Harry N. Austin, Austin moved to Jackson from Massachusetts, possibly already a friend of the Millsaps family, and married Mary Buie, the niece of Major Millsaps…. Read More ›
Revisionist history from a blue-haired lady in 1937
Over the holidays, I had a chance to take a couple of days and head over to the state archives to look at some collections an archivist friend had mentioned a while back (always have archivists friends–they know the most… Read More ›
Civil Rights Sites from Charles E. Cobb Jr.’s “On the Road to Freedom”
I mentioned in the comments section for “Another Vanishing Civil Rights Landmark” that there was a book (that I could not think of at the time) that has a list of various Mississippi Civil Rights Movement sites. That book is… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-10-2011
Happy New Year, MissPres, and happy snow day to most of the state! Here’s the new stories that wrapped up 2010 and kicked off 2011. A lot of news from around the Coast in the past few weeks. As Malvaney… Read More ›
Lost Mississippi: Malmaison
Last week’s look back at the buildings we lost in 2010 reminded me of landmarks lost in other years. I haven’t done a Lost Mississippi post in a while because we already have a wealth of books covering our lost… Read More ›
Found: A Streetcar Map!
Remember that post a while back about streetcars and how they came and went in Mississippi with hardly any physical reminders or even decent maps to show where they had been? Well, over the holidays, I picked up a publication… Read More ›
National Register 2010, Part 1
To finish off our end-of-the-year list series for the week, today and tomorrow we’ll cover the National Register listings, fourteen in all. Since these are more text-heavy than the Mississippi Landmark or demolition lists, I’m splitting this into two posts,… Read More ›
For Auld Lang Syne: Friends We Lost in 2010
It’s traditional here on MissPres to use the relatively quiet week between Christmas and New Years to look back over the events of the year, both good and bad. Hopefully this will help us take stock and get ready for… Read More ›
Christmas Decorations: Bethlehem Tree, MMA
If you’re in Jackson, make sure to stop in at the Mississippi Museum of Art and see the Bethlehem Tree. Jewell Younger Graeber of Marks, Mississippi, lovingly acquired the figures in this magnificent display over more than twenty years, in… Read More ›
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