Preservation in Mississippi

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• Roadside Mississippi: (former) Tastee Freeze, Jackson

  By Thomas Rosell on May 12, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  A small roadside building with a stepped facade, front service windows, a curvilinear front fascia, and a flat roof that ever so slightly slopes to the rear of the structure. Could it be? A Tastee Freeze?

• HABS in Mississippi: Messinger House, near Edwards

  By ELMalvaney on May 11, 2017 • ( 19 )

  

  Like our last two HABS sites, the Col. Moore House in Winona and the old Grist Mill near Macon, this week’s Messinger (or Messenger) House starts out as a bit of a mystery but gets a little clearer as we… Read More ›

• MissPres Word of the Week: Gravity Ventilator

  By Thomas Rosell on May 10, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  What is a Gravity Ventilator?

• MissPres News Roundup 5-9-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on May 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Let’s start this week’s roundup big news of the National Historic Landmark plaque dedication ceremony at the New Capitol.

• Mississippi by Air: Jackson during the Easter Flood, 1979

  By ELMalvaney on May 5, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  If you’ve been paying attention to the weather in the last two weeks, and who could avoid paying attention, you know we’ve gotten a lot of rain (approximately 13 inches at my house in the last 13 days), and it’s… Read More ›

• MissPres Around The World

  By Thomas Rosell on May 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The MissPres website logs some interesting website stats for us including this map below. The red color of the United States of America means that is where a majority of the visitors to the site come from. Yellow means we’ve had… Read More ›

• What are Mississippi’s earliest arts sites?

  By ELMalvaney on May 3, 2017 • ( 15 )

  

  Today’s guest post by Dr. Suzannah A. Patterson is a request for your expert assistance in identifying important Mississippi sites in the area of arts and entertainment. If you know of sites she doesn’t mention below, drop a line in… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-2-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on May 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Let’s start this week’s roundup with the news on the damaging storms that crossed the state over the weekend. On Monday we reported some on the damage that occurred to historic places in Durant and Flora, but reports of the extent… Read More ›

• Reports of Mississippi Tornado Damage

  By ELMalvaney on May 1, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s still a little early to tell, but it looks like at least a few of our historic places around Mississippi, especially on a northeast line from about Flora through Durant, took a hit from yesterday’s nasty weather. Here are… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: Greenville 1913

  By ELMalvaney on April 28, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

• HABS in Mississippi: Col. Moore House, Winona

  By ELMalvaney on April 27, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  When I first started this post, I didn’t know where in Winona the Col. Moore House was, or even who Col. Moore was, and unfortunately, the sparse record in the MDAH Historic Resources Database informed me that it was no… Read More ›

• Chicken Chef: Mississippi’s Own A-Frame

  By Thomas Rosell on April 26, 2017 • ( 35 )

  

  A-frame buildings tend to stand out to me just because they are not too common around Mississippi, or anywhere else for that matter.  The term A-frame comes from the shape of the structure, where the roof extends down steeply on… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-25-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on April 25, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  Let’s jump right on in to this week’s roundup. In Neshoba County, near Philadelphia, the Mt. Zion Methodist Church is in the process of being nominated for National Register of Historic Places.  Mt. Zion Church was burned by the Ku Klux Klan… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: Capitol Street Viaduct, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on April 21, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Although the railroad bed was not raised over Capitol Street and other east-west downtown streets until 1926, when the new Union Station was under construction, this little “what if” rendering in 1917 shows that city officials and probably many residents… Read More ›

• Industrial Mississippi: Corinth Machinery Company

  By ELMalvaney on April 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Although the 1951 Manufacturer’s Record doesn’t have any text discussing the Corinth Machinery Company, the magazine does have this great aerial view of the 3-story 1869 building front and center, along with the subsidiary structures in this industrial complex that stood… Read More ›

• Roadside Mississippi: El Patio Motor Court, Laurel

  By ELMalvaney on April 19, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  Laurel’s El Patio Motor Court (1946) welcomed the increasing number of automobile tourists after World War II. The motor court’s Mission style evoked the Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts, the nation’s first motel chain, and unlike Mississippi’s two Alamos, the El Patio survives on Roadside Mississippi.

• MissPres News Roundup 4-18-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on April 18, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  From Mary Holmes College to Gulfport Library, from fences at Greenwood Cemetery to the roof of the old Greenville Depot, from Natchez to Jackson to Tupelo and points in between, here’s all the Mississippi preservation news that’s fit to print (virtually, on the internets).

• New Capitol Presentations Available Online

  By Thomas Rosell on April 17, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  If you were not able to attend last month’s lectures at Mississippi State on Restoring the Mississippi State Capitol, fear not! The presentations of both Jennifer Baughn (MDAH Chief Architectural Historian) and Lawson Newman (WFT Architects) have been made available online… Read More ›

• Good Friday in the Magnolia State

  By ELMalvaney on April 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

• Let’s nail the thieves who did this to the Shaifer House

  By ELMalvaney on April 13, 2017 • ( 21 )

  

  Word has been spreading for the past 10 days on Facebook and beyond about an act of bold thievery, of pure thugery, perpetrated on the National Historic Landmark Shaifer House out in the woods near Port Gibson, but yesterday I… Read More ›

• Newspaper Clippings: Vicksburg courthouse and its cypress foundation

  By ELMalvaney on April 12, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

    I came across this article recently in the Vicksburg Daily Commercial Herald, Apr 17, 1888, and knew it had to find the light of day again, there’s just so much interesting information in it. The cast of characters includes… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-11-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on April 11, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Mississippi preservation stories from here and there and all over the Twitterverse.

• More Ways to be a Preservationist this Spring

  By ELMalvaney on April 10, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Tour the world’s largest physical model on April 28 and then head down to Jefferson County to check out Prospect Hill’s fancy new roof and cleaned-up cemetery. Enjoy this Mississippi spring weather while it lasts!

• Millsaps Observatory for History is Lunch

  By ELMalvaney on April 7, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  From the MDAH website: Observatory Restoration Topic of Talk At noon on Wednesday, April 12, as part of the department’s History Is Lunch series, architect Robert Parker Adams will discuss the recently completed restoration of the James Observatory at Millsaps… Read More ›

• The Matawan Texacos of Mississippi

  By Thomas Rosell on April 6, 2017 • ( 21 )

  

  I was in Monticello (Mississippi) a while back when a handsome former service station caught my eye. It is unmistakable as a Texaco station built in that fuel company’s “Matawan” style, so named after the site of the first location of… Read More ›

• Who are these people and why are they glaring at each other?

  By ELMalvaney on April 5, 2017 • ( 24 )

  

  Hmm, let’s see if we can figure this out. In the left panel, I see some men who look Amish glaring at some women who look Amish–all with arms defensively crossed–two sorrowful Native Americans, and what may be an Army officer standing in the back observing this unhappy scene.

• MissPres News Roundup 4-4-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on April 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Let’s jump right on in to this week’s roundup. Pilgrimages are underway in Columbus, Natchez and Vicksburg. Follow the links below to see what’s going on in your neck of the woods.  Attending events like these is a great way to… Read More ›

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