Preservation in Mississippi

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• MissPres News Roundup 10-31-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on October 31, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  I hope there are not any scary tricks today, but this has been a quiet preservation news week.  Let’s jump right into this week’s roundup. The Natchez Democrat ran a story about the local Natchez places that have been included… Read More ›

• Biofilm! Laser Ablation! Oh My!

  By ELMalvaney on October 30, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Last week, the National Park Service announced that they had successfully cleaned with laser ablation a 1,000 square foot section of the Jefferson Memorial’s famous white dome, which had become overrun with what they call biofilm and what most southerners would… Read More ›

• MissPres Word of the Week: Pediment, Broken Pediment

  By Thomas Rosell on October 27, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  E.L. Malvaney has a submitted request for this MissPres Word of the Week,  emailing along the photo below saying, “…Another word I’ve recently thought of that should be a word of the week is “broken pediment.” I suppose to break the… Read More ›

• Industrial Mississippi: Wells Lamont, Philadelphia

  By ELMalvaney on October 26, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  As I’ve driven through Philadelphia, I’ve often admired a Moderne-style industrial building on West Myrtle Street now known as Philadelphia Electronics. But I’ve never known anything more about it until I came across an architectural rendering in a 1946 Clarion-Ledger… Read More ›

• Mid-Week Mid-Century: Mississippi Architect Fellow Tom Biggs

  By ELMalvaney on October 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This last installment from the May 1963 issue of Mississippi Architect is an unusual one for the magazine, as it focuses on one particular Mississippi architect who was being honored by the A.I.A. We’ve looked at a few of Tom… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 10-24-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on October 24, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  Let’s jump right into this week’s roundup.  A roundup that contains lots of stories from Jackson. Starting in Jackson‘s Belhaven Neighborhood, over the years, First Presbyterian Church on N. State Street has been buying homes adjacent to the church property. … Read More ›

• Ocean Springs’ Charnley-Norwood House Wins National Award

  By ELMalvaney on October 23, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The Louis Sullivan-designed Charnley-Norwood House in Ocean Springs has won a preservation award from the prestigious Victorian Society in America, based in New York City. Two other projects won an award in the VSA’s annual meeting earlier in October: the… Read More ›

• MHT Announces 11th 10 Most Endangered List

  By ELMalvaney on October 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Thursday evening at the restored historic Lowry House in Jackson, the Mississippi Heritage Trust announced its latest list of Mississippi’s 10 Most Endangered Historic Places. As always, the announcement was followed by food, fellowship, and a silent auction of artwork… Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: National Youth Administration

  By Suzassippi on October 19, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  It has been a while since we have featured any New Deal projects, so I thought it time to update on some of the Mississippi examples.  One of my favorite programs was the National Youth Administration arm of the WPA. … Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 10-18-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on October 18, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Due to a scheduling error our regular Tuesday roundup is running Wednesday. Mississippi appears to have come out of Hurricane Nate relatively unscathed, but there is bad news to report this week, with a little bit of good news to… Read More ›

• More TxDOT Guidance Documents

  By Thomas Rosell on October 13, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Since the Friday is a Gas series that was influenced by the TxDOT A Field Guide to Gas Stations in Texas was so popular I thought all the TxDOT histoirc preservation guidelines would be worth sharing.  There are a considerable number… Read More ›

• Jackson’s former General Electric Plant a victim of arson

  By ELMalvaney on October 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  According to WLBT, the former G.E. Lamp Works, more lately the Jackson Enterprise Center, on Highway 80 suffered a major arson fire beginning sometime late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, and firefighters spent most of the day keeping hot… Read More ›

• Mid-Week Mid-Century: Three Round Banks

  By ELMalvaney on October 11, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

  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 ›

• MissPres News Roundup 10-10-2017

  By ELMalvaney on October 10, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  Behind the storm and fury of Hurricane Nate, preservation news was bubbling around the state and not in a good way. Thankfully, so far it seems that Nate’s damage on the Mississippi Gulf Coast was minimal, and I haven’t heard… Read More ›

• SAH Archipedia Now Includes Mississippi Entries

  By Thomas Rosell on October 6, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Last year in the post titled What is an Archipedia? we learned that the Society of Architectural Historians was expanding their online database, called Archipedia, to include content from all 50 states.  In July they followed through with the first of their… Read More ›

• 10 Most Endangered Places Unveiling on October 19

  By ELMalvaney on October 5, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  From our friends at the Mississippi Heritage Trust comes the announcement of this year’s 10 Most Endangered Places Unveiling. This bi-annual event shines light on some of Mississippi’s most endangered historic places and is always a good time to meet… Read More ›

• Mid-Week Mid-Century: Homogeneously Eclectic Yazoo City Storefronts

  By ELMalvaney on October 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Yazoo City’s downtown may qualify as the most homogenous in the state, by which I mean of the same period and of a piece. As most of you probably know, a great fire took out a couple dozen blocks of… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 10-3-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on October 3, 2017 • ( 11 )

  

  Another week’s worth of mixed good and bad news.  Let’s jump right into this week’s roundup. This is getting a little too meta for me.  A news story in the Jackson Free Press quoted last week’s news MissPres round-up regarding… Read More ›

• Friday Film: Institute Hall, Natchez

  By Thomas Rosell on September 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  On this final September Friday, take an 18-minute break to watch this video about the restoration of the former Institute Hall in Natchez. The film chronicles the building’s history beginning in the early mid-1800s to its recent renovation and conversion… Read More ›

• HABS in Mississippi: The Castle, Aberdeen

  By ELMalvaney on September 28, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  A castle. In Aberdeen, Mississippi. Have you seen it?

• Newspaper Clippings: Wiring the Pascagoula-Moss Point Bank, 1960

  By ELMalvaney on September 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s an interesting take on a building that’s appeared a few times here on MissPres, most recently an announcement of its new owners and plans for new life. Here we get an article that was first published in a trade… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-26-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on September 26, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  Plenty of bad news, with a little bit of good news to ease the pain. Let’s jump right into this week’s roundup. The Fondren House in Jackson was destroyed on September 21st.  Lots of secrecy and obfuscation has swirled around… Read More ›

• Aladdin Ledger Houses: A Plaza in Sledge

  By Thomas Rosell on September 22, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  Aladdin likely shipped kit houses into Mississippi for nearly the entirety of their eighty-one year existence, but the Aladdin plant in Hattiesburg operated for less than three years between 1919 and 1921.  One of the ledger orders was for a Plaza model requested by a “Sledge & Gillis” to be shipped to Sledge, Quitman County, Mississippi.

• Industrial Mississippi: Armstrong Cork Co., Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on September 21, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

  A couple of weeks ago, a reader named Mark noted in a comment to an Industrial Mississippi post: The Jackson plant of Armstrong Flooring (formerly Armstrong Cork and Armstrong World Ind) is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2017. It’s been… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-19-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on September 19, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  Another somewhat quiet week in the Mississippi preservation world this week.  Everyone must be too focused on that great Mississippi State football victory to do much of anything else.  Here are a few stories have popped up. Fitting in with… Read More ›

• Historic For Sale: Cedar Grove, Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on September 18, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  Vicksburg’s famous Cedar Grove Inn overlooking the Mississippi River is on the market for $1.199 million dollars, offered by Ernesto Caldeira of Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty of New Orleans. You may recall that Mr. Caldeira is also a longtime… Read More ›

• Overstreet & Town Concrete Buildings

  By Thomas Rosell on September 15, 2017 • ( 18 )

  

  I present to you for your weekend perusing pleasure the following book: Architectural Concrete for Small Buildings published in 1937 by the Portland Cement Association.  The book is available to view online over on archive.org thanks to the Association for… Read More ›

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