Preservation in Mississippi

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• Madisonians at the Sea Shore

  By ELMalvaney on April 1, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  It turns out that the Madisonian maritime culture was much more extensive and robust than anyone realized, with its influence stretching from the Ross Barnett Reservoir all the way to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

• Edwards House Toilet Paper?

  By ELMalvaney on March 31, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  How much would you pay for fine, absorbent Edwards House toilet tissue?

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Penciled

  By Thomas Rosell on March 30, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  Recently I saw some neat pictures of the Old Brick House (built c.1850) in Biloxi.  That gave me the idea for this week’s MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Penciled.  The Old Brick House sits facing Biloxi’s Back Bay, so folks maybe… Read More ›

• Robert Snow, Savior of Waverley, Dies at Home

  By ELMalvaney on March 29, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  Robert Snow, one of Mississippi’s most determined but understated preservationists, died at his beloved Waverley north of Columbus on Sunday, according to a tribute by Slim Smith of the Commercial Dispatch. If ever it was appropriate for someone to die at home,… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-27-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on March 27, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  This is our last round-up for March.  It’s hard to believe that we are about to enter the second quarter of 2017 already. Let’s jump right on in to this week’s roundup. Since our last news round-up, MDAH has hosted another preservation… Read More ›

• Two Friday Puzzles For Two Preservation Events

  By Thomas Rosell on March 24, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  This Friday we’ve got two puzzles for two preservation-related events that are taking place: one today and one tomorrow. Today (3/24/17) at Mississippi State University is the Dan and Gemma Camp Classical Lecture: Restoring the Mississippi State Capitol, to be… Read More ›

• Industrial Mississippi: Rex Brown Generating Station, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on March 23, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

  I pass the Rex Brown power station on Northside Drive in Jackson pretty regularly. It’s located on Lake Hico, which I just found out from this wikipedia article is the headwater for Eubanks Creek that winds through Fondren on its way to… Read More ›

• Newspaper Clippings: Pike County Health Center, 1938

  By ELMalvaney on March 22, 2017 • ( 15 )

  

  I see in the news that some legislators want the state department of health to save lots of money by going “back to the 1900s” and, instead of treating people in county health clinics, they could just hand out educational… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-20-2017

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

  

  Round ups might become an every-other week event if my schedule doesn’t let up soon.  I still feel a little behind on the preservation goings on in Mississippi but let’s jump right on in to this week’s roundup. Since our last news… Read More ›

• More Events for Your Spring and Summer

  By ELMalvaney on March 17, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  As usual when Mississippi enters spring, the creative juices of Mississippians begin to flow and everyone is ready to get outside for interesting preservation events. Here are a few announcements that have shown up in my inbox over the past couple of… Read More ›

• Craftsman in Mississippi: Soria City Bungalows

  By ELMalvaney on March 16, 2017 • ( 11 )

  

  Today’s bungalows come to us from the Mississippi Coast, Gulfport’s Soria City neighborhood, which was listed on the National Register in September 2015. A walk through this small, cohesive African American neighborhood brings you past a number of front-gabled bungalows,… Read More ›

• Mississippi Unbuilt: Alternative appearance for the Hotel Vicksburg

  By Thomas Rosell on March 15, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  I enjoy looking at archives outside of Mississippi because it’s interesting to see what other folks collect about our state, and how we may be reflected out in the broader world.  OhioMemory.org has a small collection of Mississippiana that includes… Read More ›

• Mississippi Builders: Tom B. Scott & Company

  By Suzassippi on March 14, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  Last Wednesday’s post by Thomas Rosell on Apartments on Jackson’s North Street commented on builder Tom B. Scott, who is credited in the MDAH database with three buildings in Jackson, followed by the intriguing question “Does anyone know more about… Read More ›

• Friday Film: Mississippi’s New Capitol

  By Thomas Rosell on March 10, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Today’s Friday Film is part of the Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s “Mississippi: A Thread Through Time.”  As part of the state’s bicentennial this year MPB has produced a new series of one-minute documentaries.  A new story will be presented each week.  Several weeks… Read More ›

• Demolition Before and After: Super D, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on March 9, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  Back in February 2012, I pleaded with Baptist Hospital to save the old Rexall drug store, also known as the Super D, located just north of the McDonalds on N. State. It was designed around 1950 by a young Robert… Read More ›

• Apartments on Jackson’s North Street

  By Thomas Rosell on March 8, 2017 • ( 24 )

  

  I developed an interest in several Jackson apartment buildings after reading a 1929 Manufacturers Record magazine with the following entry. Miss., Jackson — Tom B. Scott, Capitol Natl. Bk. Bldg and associates started work on 12 apartment group on North St. between Boyd… Read More ›

• Who was Jim Farley and why was he in Mississippi?

  By Suzassippi on March 7, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  In describing the new offices of the Highway Commission and the large number of employees housed in the Plaza Building (later known as the Standard Life Building and constructed in 1929), the Jackson New Deal (20 October 1933, p. 3) wrote: The only surprising… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-6-2017

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

  

  We missed our round-up last week, and I feel a little behind on the preservation goings on in Mississippi but let’s jump right in to this week’s roundup. Over the next few weeks all across the state, the Mississippi Department of… Read More ›

• Going Inside: Capitol Street Piggly Wiggly, 1935

  By ELMalvaney on March 3, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  Today’s interior views come from the October 6, 1935 edition of the Clarion-Ledger, announcing the grand opening of the latest Piggly Wiggly, at 419 E. Capitol Street in downtown Jackson. Interestingly, by the 1937 City Directory, this location was no… Read More ›

• HABS in Mississippi: Old Water Grist Mill, near Macon

  By ELMalvaney on March 2, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  I don’t know anything about the “Old Water Grist Mill, near Macon,” which photographer James Butters from the Historic American Building Survey documented in June 1936, and apparently neither does MDAH, since the only mill in Noxubee County they have… Read More ›

• Mid-Century Mississippi: Homes for Colored Veterans

  By ELMalvaney on March 1, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  I recently ran across this ad in the June 30, 1946 edition of the Clarion-Ledger. Attention! COLORED VETERANS –Here’s The Home Buy Of The Year! Pictured at left is just one of the twelve new homes that have just been… Read More ›

• Building Types: Carnival Den

  By Thomas Rosell on February 28, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  When looking at architectural history it is important to consider building types in addition to architectural styles. One such building that might not carry much architectural merit is the humble Carnival Den.  But this lowly structure is the bringer of much… Read More ›

• Pick Your Spring Pilgrimage

  By ELMalvaney on February 27, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Spring has sprung especially early this year in Mississippi, and when our thoughts turn to Spring, they automatically turn to the annual rite of Spring Pilgrimage, when historic homes in communities around the state are open for us to tour…. Read More ›

• HABS in Mississippi: Gilreath’s Tavern (Ellicott’s Hill), Natchez

  By ELMalvaney on February 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Since one of Samuel Wilson’s first projects was the house variously known as Gilreath’s Tavern, Connelly’s Tavern, and the House on Ellicott’s Hill, I thought we would follow up on yesterday’s post with the HABS documentation of the building from… Read More ›

• Book Quotes: Samuel Wilson in Mississippi

  By ELMalvaney on February 22, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  A few months ago, I was in New Orleans and was touring the Pitot House on Bayou St. John, always a pleasant tour and a building with more to say than the last time I was there. Afterward, I lingered… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 2-21-2017

  By Thomas Rosell on February 21, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Lets jump right in, feet first to this week’s roundup. With their second week of good news in a row I am giving the City of Clinton the lead again.  This week the news is the listing of Olde Towne Clinton to… Read More ›

• Happy President’s Day 2017!

  By ELMalvaney on February 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  To celebrate President’s Day, we feature the eye-catching Washington County Courthouse, a rare-for-Mississippi stone Romanesque Revival building, built in 1891. According to the MDAH Historic Resources Database, it was designated as a Mississippi Landmark in January 1989 and listed on the… Read More ›

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