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• Hand Pointing to Heaven Now Pointing Toward Virginia

  By ELMalvaney on June 27, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  Yesterday morning, bright and early, the famous Hand Pointing to Heaven high atop the steeple of Port Gibson’s First Presbyterian Church came down to the ground and is now on its way to Virginia where it will be repaired and… Read More ›

• Friday is a Gas: Humble, Enco, Esso, and Exxon c.1960-c.1970

  By Thomas Rosell on June 23, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  I had planned for a post on this station later in the Friday is a Gas series, but due to the tornado damage this building suffered last Friday, I thought it might be good to highlight it in hopes of… Read More ›

• Beauvoir damaged in TS Cindy tornado

  By ELMalvaney on June 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Beauvoir in Biloxi is reporting significant damage to the 52-acre grounds from a tornado spawned as Tropical Storm Cindy’s rain bands came ashore Wednesday morning, according to an article on newsms.fm. Thankfully, the house itself, built in the 1850s, and… Read More ›

• Roadside Mississippi: Jackson’s Free Tourist Camp

  By ELMalvaney on June 21, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  It may seem impossible to believe today, but in the early days of automobile tourist travel, Jackon’s leaders (or some unnamed civic group, perhaps an automobile club) decided it would be a great idea to build a rustic cabin on… Read More ›

• Mid-Week Mid-Century: Modern Banking in Downtown Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on June 21, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  I found this to-die-for postcard showing Jackson’s Trustmark Bank (formerly First National Bank) building a few weeks ago and was surprised to win it on eBay. Opened in 1956, the building was designed by two Jackson architectural firms, James T. Canizaro and Overstreet, Ware & Ware… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-20-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on June 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Lots of good news this week so lets jump right into this week’s roundup. Good news from Starkville this week, compared to the news last week that fourteen structures including three historic houses were demolished.  Starkville Police to open new offices in restored… Read More ›

• Friday is a Gas: Pan Am/Amoco Stations c.1930-c.1940

  By Thomas Rosell on June 16, 2017 • ( 35 )

  

  Per Malvaney’s request and the plethora of examples received in the comments to last Friday’s post, this week we’ll focus on the Pan Am/ Amoco Stations of the c.1930s-c.1940s.  Unfortunately this station type is not listed in the handy-dandy 2016… Read More ›

• Mississippi’s Very Own Sanborn Man: Owen T. Palmer

  By ELMalvaney on June 15, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  As I was searching through the various digital newspaper collections for references to the Sanborn Map Company for yesterday’s post “Who Were Those Sanborn Men?“, I ran across a 1945 article in the Daily Herald about the presentation of a certificate… Read More ›

• Who Were Those Sanborn Men?

  By ELMalvaney on June 14, 2017 • ( 15 )

  

  In case you didn’t catch it, Thomas Rosell noted at the end of yesterday’s news roundup that the Library of Congress is gradually publishing its digitized collection of the full-color Sanborn Insurance Maps. Currently, Mississippi only has three sets: Pascagoula for… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-13-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on June 13, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  Lets jump right into this week’s roundup. Starting in Starkville, fourteen structures including three historic houses were demolished this week for an “a planned upscale, mixed-use development that will include retail shops and loft apartments” The article gives the developers… Read More ›

• Friday is a Gas: Teague & The Icebox

  By Thomas Rosell on June 9, 2017 • ( 32 )

  

  While Teague and icebox might sound like the title of a terrible buddy cop TV show, the Teague and icebox designs of gas stations are some of the most recognizable service station designs from the late 1930s through the 1950s…. Read More ›

• Happy Birthday Bruce Goff & Frank Lloyd Wright

  By Thomas Rosell on June 8, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

  Go inside Bruce Goff’s “Star House,” built in 1960 for Mr. and Mrs. Emil Gutman in Bayou View neighborhood of Gulfport.

• A Beaux Arts Swimming Pool Design in Mississippi?! – Aberdeen’s Acker Park

  By W. White on June 7, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  Yes, there used to be a Beaux Arts public swimming pool in Mississippi. Thomas Rosell’s comment on the Swimming Pools for Some post asking about an abandoned swimming pool in Aberdeen is the impetus behind this post about historic Acker Park… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-6-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on June 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  From Corinth to Gulfport, and points in between, here’s some of the Mississippi preservation news that’s fit to print (virtually, on the internets).

• Friday is a Gas: Curbside Gas Pumps

  By Thomas Rosell on June 2, 2017 • ( 11 )

  

  These pumps were once quite common in Mississippi. Does anyone know where such a curbside pump might exist?

• Newspaper Clippings: Pearl Consolidated School

  By Suzassippi on May 31, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  While on old Brandon Road in Pearl, I noted a former school building, reminding me of similar designs I have seen throughout Mississippi.  The MDAH Historic Resources database identifies it as the Old Pearl High School, constructed 1930, and Noah… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-30-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on May 30, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Whats been going on Preservation wise in Jackson, Tupelo, Meridian, Hattiesburg, and your neck of the woods?

• Memorial Day 2017

  By ELMalvaney on May 29, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  “The floor plan calls for an open court at the entrance to be designated the court of honor. Dignified columns will be used to lend a cathedral effect. The structure will be situated well back from North State street, allowing a long sweep of lawn, which will be formed into a parkway.”

• Friday is a Gas: Gulf Gas Stations c.1920-c.1930

  By Thomas Rosell on May 26, 2017 • ( 14 )

  

  I was glad to see such an enthusiastic response to our new Friday series. Hopefully this week you can sleuth up some locations of Gulf Oil Service Stations constructed c.1920-1930.

• Port Gibson’s Wintergreen Cemetery damaged

  By ELMalvaney on May 25, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Port Gibson’s Wintergreen Cemetery, an oasis of cedar trees dripping with Spanish moss amongst evocative grave markers and beautiful iron fences, suffered damge in the strong storms that passed through the state on Sunday, according to a post on the… Read More ›

• Mississippi Builders: Bilbo McHuley

  By ELMalvaney on May 24, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  Last week’s post on African American designer/architect W.A. Lattimore mentioned that he worked with builder Bilbo McHuley, and that reminded me that I’ve been sitting on this ad for a “McHuley home,” published in the February 22, 1964 edition of… Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: Jackson’s Canning Plants

  By Suzassippi on May 23, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  In earlier posts, canning plants have been mentioned in connection with some of the New Deal schools in Mississippi (for example, East Tupelo canning plant).  Recently, I ran across this article on the Emergency Relief Administration’s opening of the Jackson… Read More ›

• Join MHT in Cleveland for Listen Up!

  By ELMalvaney on May 22, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  From our friends at the Mississippi Heritage Trust, an invitation to join with other Mississippi preservationists and “building huggers of all stripes” in Cleveland, Miss. June 8-9. In addition to hearing speakers and eating good food, you will tour the… Read More ›

• Friday is a Gas: Cities Service Stations c.1930 – c.1950

  By Thomas Rosell on May 19, 2017 • ( 24 )

  

    Cities Service was founded in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in 1910 as a public utility. The company operated natural gas, lighting, ice and other utility type services in major municipal locations during the early part of the century. – A Field Guide… Read More ›

• HABS in Mississippi: Marschalk Printing Office, Natchez

  By ELMalvaney on May 18, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  Interestingly, given our discussion about photographers on last week’s HABS post, this week’s subject, the Marschalk Printing Office in downtown Natchez, was photographed on different occasions by two different HABS photographers, the first our familiar friend James Butters, and the… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architects: W. A. Lattimore, African American Designer

  By Thomas Rosell on May 17, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

  I had not heard of W. A. Lattimore until I ran across an article in a 1963 edition of the Mississippi Free Press, an African American newspaper published from 1961 until about 1964.  My initial efforts to look into his body… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-16-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on May 16, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  Whew! We’ve got quite the round up this week. Let’s start this week’s roundup with the big news from…

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