Preservation in Mississippi

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• Two Mississippi Projects Receive NPS Civil Rights Grants

  By ELMalvaney on January 13, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Two Mississippi projects, one in the Delta and one in Natchez, received awards totaling $550,00 from the African American Civil Rights Grant Program, the National Park Service announced yesterday. This was from a grant pool of $7.75 million, and a… Read More ›

• Medgar and Myrlie Evers House Now an NHL

  By ELMalvaney on January 12, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  The Secretary of the Interior announced yesterday that the Medgar and Myrlie Evers House, operated as a museum by Tougaloo College, has been designated as a National Historic Landmark, the highest honor for historic places. Here are the relevant bits… Read More ›

• Mississippi Landmarks 2016

  By ELMalvaney on January 11, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  I had expected to get this post up when we were still in the year 2016, and I certainly didn’t think it would end up coming out in the second week of 2017, but this year’s list of new Mississippi Landmarks… Read More ›

• A Trilogy for Meridian: Part I

  By Suzassippi on January 10, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  It is a long journey to get from 603 25th Avenue at the Capt. A. B. Avery House in 1889 Meridian to end up at 601 25th Avenue and the former Standard Drug Company at the beginning of 2017.  Along the… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 1-9-2017

  By W. White on January 9, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  Although I do not write very many posts on Preservation in Mississippi anymore, it is almost a tradition for me to begin the New Year with a News Roundup. It is a way to clear out the old news (generally… Read More ›

• Top 11 MissPres posts written in 2016

  By Thomas Rosell on January 6, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Before we get too far into 2017, let’s take a look back at the most popular posts written during 2016.  If you missed any of these posts now would be a good chance to catch up.  If you remember them,… Read More ›

• 2016 Annual Report

  By ELMalvaney on January 3, 2017 • ( 14 )

  

  It’s time for our annual look back at how this little blog performed in the last year. I’m not going to lie, as a blogger, 2016 was a long slog. In June 2015, we had hit 1,000,000 page views and our numbers… Read More ›

• Tweets From The Past Week

  By Thomas Rosell on December 31, 2016 • ( 7 )

  

  Just a quick post to catch up on some of the recent @PreservationMS tweets.  If you’re not a Twitter person you can always see the MissPres tweets on the Homepage under the heading “NewsUpdates.” Can't get enough of this c.1960 rendering… Read More ›

• With Gratitude

  By Thomas Rosell on December 30, 2016 • ( 10 )

  

  2016 has been quite the year: the struggles, the places we’ve lost. I am hopeful we learned from these losses to maybe prevent similar losses in the future. Looking beyond, I would like to share this list of the things I am grateful… Read More ›

• Auld Lang Syne: Friends We Lost in 2016

  By ELMalvaney on December 29, 2016 • ( 7 )

  

  Raise a toast to absent friends and historic places we lost in 2016.

• National Register 2016: Historic Districts

  By ELMalvaney on December 28, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  In last year’s National Register historic districts post, I noted that there were a number of historic districts written by FEMA and that 2016 was supposed to continue this trend. Sure enough, this year, four out of the six historic… Read More ›

• National Register 2016: Individual Listings

  By ELMalvaney on December 27, 2016 • ( 5 )

  

  National Register listings for 2016 vary from a rural African American store to an Illinois Central Depot in Durant to “The Hermitage” on the banks of Hobolochitto Creek in Picayune.

• Christmas Star Over the Buckeye

  By ELMalvaney on December 21, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  High atop a cotton seed oil mill in the Mississippi Delta, a star. Merry Christmas from Preservation in Mississippi!

• Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Part II

  By Suzassippi on December 20, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  Last week we took a look at the beginnings of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, established in March 1902.  Legislation was drafted by Franklin L. Riley, professor of history and rhetoric at University of Mississippi, and subsequently passed… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Roy Harrover (1928-2016)

  By W. White on December 19, 2016 • ( 13 )

  

  In my readings around the Internet, I found the sad news that Memphis architect Roy Harrover passed away on December 13 at the age of 88. Harrover never practiced in Mississippi; he was a Memphis-based architect from 1955 until his… Read More ›

• A Map of Mississippi’s National Register Listings

  By ELMalvaney on December 15, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  I was searching for something else last night but got sidetracked somehow and ended up on the wikipedia page that lists all of the National Register entries for Mississippi. I’ve seen this page many times before, but this time my… Read More ›

• Masterbilt Shotgun Houses

  By ELMalvaney on December 14, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Scholars like Jay Edwards of Louisiana State University and John Michael Vlach of George Washington University have long made a convincing case that the long, narrow form of what we now call the shotgun house came to the United States through… Read More ›

• Mississippi Department of Archives & History: Part I

  By Suzassippi on December 13, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Malvaney’s post last week about historic newspapers and their interesting content made me think about searching the newspaper archives for the history of MDAH, since I so often rely on the department’s resources for details on historic sites in Mississippi…. Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 12-12-2016

  By ELMalvaney on December 12, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Unless something big happens in the next couple of weeks, this will be our last news roundup of 2016. The Daily Journal  in Tupelo ran a nice article by M. Scott Morris about the ongoing work on the Chalmers Institute in… Read More ›

• Charnley-Norwood House/Restored Landscape Open Sunday

  By ELMalvaney on December 9, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  I haven’t seen much buzz about this Sunday’s open house at the Charnley-Norwood House on East Beach Blvd. in Ocean Springs, but this isn’t just an open house but an open yard as well. My understanding is that the landscape… Read More ›

• Newspaper Clippings: Provine Chapel, Sept.1860

  By ELMalvaney on December 8, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  As more and more old newspapers get scanned and put online, it’s amazing the little gems of articles you can find with a few clicks. Here’s one from September 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, just a little… Read More ›

• Second Edition of Plantation World of Wilkinson County Available

  By ELMalvaney on December 7, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  First released back in 2013, this hardcover, richly illustrated book quickly sold out. Now’s your chance to grab a copy if you missed out the first time, or to buy a present for a friend or family member who loves… Read More ›

• 2016 Community Heritage Preservation Grants Announced

  By ELMalvaney on December 5, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  From the MDAH website comes much-anticipated news about this year’s round of Community Heritage Preservation Grants (CHPG), the state’s primary historic preservation grant program. I’ve taken the liberty of adding links to the MDAH Historic Resources Database for each building so you… Read More ›

• Things for architecture-lovers to do this season

  By ELMalvaney on November 30, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  ‘Tis the season for architecture lovers to get out and tour historic (and even a few newish) places around Mississippi. Christmas in Natchez, of course, has been going on for a few weeks now, and to see their full and… Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: Madison-Ridgeland High School addition

  By Suzassippi on November 29, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  It has been a while since we have been on the New Deal Tour for Mississippi, so I decided it was high time to get back on the road.  The Public Works Administration-funded annex to the Madison-Ridgeland High School was… Read More ›

• MHT featured on Mississippi Roads

  By ELMalvaney on November 22, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Check out the feature that Walt Grayson did on the Mississippi Heritage Trust and preservation around the state on his recent episode “Helping One Another” on MPB’s Mississippi Roads.    

• MissPres News Roundup 11-21-2016

  By ELMalvaney on November 21, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  Several preservation stories have popped up in the last couple of weeks, enough to squeeze in a Thanksgiving week news roundup to keep all y’all on top of things.

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