You would have to be an original reader of Preservation in Mississippi to remember my ode to Bexley School in George County, all the way back in July 2009. The two-classroom school sits overlooking Highway 98 near Lucedale, and it’s… Read More ›
Renovation Projects
Oxford’s Walton-Young House undergoing exterior repair
Good news for the c.1880 Italianate Walton-Young House on University Avenue: a little TLC for the exterior! The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is supporting the repairs through its Community Heritage Preservation Grant. Architect for the work is Belinda… Read More ›
Time to Nominate Your Preservation Project?
It’s that time of year to prepare nominations for the annual Best of the South award, given by the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians to the best preservation or restoration project in the South. Mississippi has been… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 4-7-2015
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.
MissPres News Roundup 3-23-2015
From the resurrection of the Delta Queen, to National Register listings around the state, and a virtual Frank Lloyd Wright Summit, the MissPres News Roundup is your weekly must-read.
MissPres News Roundup 3-2-2015
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.
Old News: No-bid State Contracts
File this nugget from Jackson’s Northside Reporter, Sept. 21, 1961, in the “Nothing New Under the Sun” file and cross-reference in the “Shocked! Shocked!” folder. This editorial was presumably written by Hazel Brannon Smith, who published the Reporter in those days,… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 12-22-2014
One happy story for this week’s Christmas reading. Clarion-Ledger writer Sherry Lucas reported this weekend that the Merrill-Maley House, built around 1910, on Jackson’s N. State Street finally has a new owner after years of standing vacant. Left in the middle… Read More ›
Modern Meridian Tour 12.13.14
If you were not able to make it to the Modern Meridian Tour last Saturday, you really missed out on a special opportunity to see some places not generally open to the public. The morning started in the Crestwood Elementary… Read More ›
MDAH announces 2014 CHPG grants
From the MDAH website, posted December 3, 2014. $2.15M Awarded to Preservation Projects At a special meeting on December 3 the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History awarded more than $2 million on behalf of… Read More ›
Charnley-Norwood House Is “Best of the South”
A big congratulations to all involved in the painstaking restoration of the Charnley-Norwood House, which received the Best of the South award from the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH)! Designed by Louis Sullivan on the beachfront in… Read More ›
Help Paint Waverley Mansion!
Contribute to the Friends of Waverley Mansion campaign and get the chance to go up into the cupola!
New Capitol Under Renovation
If you’ve been in downtown Jackson recently you may have noticed that the Capitol has sprouted scaffolding. It’s the beginning of a long-overdue $7.4 million renovation.
MissPres News Roundup 9-15-2014
News from Jackson, West Point, Meridian, Philadelphia, Columbus, and did I mention Meridian?
Friday Videos: Charnley-Norwood House
On this early September Friday, close your office door and take your federally mandated 15-minute break watching these two well-done videos about the Charnley-Norwood House in Ocean Springs. For those of you unfamiliar with the house, I will just say… Read More ›
Looking Back Katrina’s 9th Anniversary: Bay St. Louis & Waveland
In recognition of the 9th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week we feature some images from the Mississippi Heritage Trust Hurricane Katrina page along with images uploaded to the MDAH HRI database. These files relate to the coastal towns in the month… Read More ›
Looking Back Katrina’s 9th Anniversary: Long Beach & Pass Christian
In recognition of the 9th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week we feature some images from the Mississippi Heritage Trust Hurricane Katrina page along with images uploaded to the MDAH HRI database. These files relate to the coastal towns in the month… Read More ›
Let’s Give Prospect Hill One Last Boost
After languishing for years and heading for ruin before the Archaeological Conservancy bought it a few years ago, things have been moving fast at Prospect Hill in the last month. If you’re on Facebook, you probably saw that an anonymous… Read More ›
Burger and Shake Please!
After a brief hiatus, Jackson’s classic soda fountain Brent’s Drugs is back and better than ever. We certainly are lucky to have preservationists like Brad Reeves and his partners Johnathan Shull and Amanda and Nathan Wells to carry the torch…. Read More ›
MDAH Announces New Round of Grants for Historic Buildings
From the MDAH website: $2.1 Million Available in Preservation Grants – posted July 01, 2014 A popular grant program for preservation projects has received additional funding. The 2014 Mississippi legislature allocated $2.1 million for competitive grants in the tenth round of… Read More ›
White House Hotel Nears Completion
Just a quick photo update of the White House Hotel. The exterior work appears to have come a far piece since our last update three months ago. It is awesome to see the historic windows retained! The pool under restoration……. Read More ›
Call for Mississippi’s Best Preservation Projects
The Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) has issued a call for nominations for their “Best of the South” award, with nominations due July 1, 2014. As you may recall, Mississippi has snagged two of these awards in the past:… Read More ›
And the winner is…
Preservation in Mississippi! That’s right, our very own blog will be receiving a 2014 Heritage Award for Preservation Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust at the awards luncheon in Tupelo June 10. I wonder if E.L. Malvaney will show up to accept… Read More ›
Restoring Rural Mississippi – Clay County Agricultural High School in Pheba
For most of Mississippi’s history the state has been very rural in the sense that nearly all Mississippians lived in the countryside or in small towns not in cities. For every Vicksburg, Natchez, and Columbus were twenty or more small… Read More ›
Biloxi’s White House Hotel Reborn
In a story similar to that of the King Edward Hotel in Jackson, after almost thirty years of vacancy a Biloxi landmark will be restored. On February 17 WLOX reported that according to its developers the White House Hotel is… Read More ›
Prospects Seem Bright for Future of Prospect Hill
Some exciting news for one of our 10 Most Endangered Historic Places-on January 17, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History designated Prospect Hill as a Mississippi Landmark and awarded the Archaeological Conservancy a $50,000 grant to repair the roof… Read More ›
Tupelo’s Spain House Move from Outer Space
While it happened almost a year ago, you can still see how the Spain House in Tupelo was moved thanks to Google Maps. The satellite image was made by Digital Globe, Inc. some time in late 2012. The Daily Journal… Read More ›
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