Preservation in Mississippi

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• An Aladdin Craftsman in Tunica?

  By Thomas Rosell on October 4, 2016 • ( 5 )

  

  Back when I was looking for historic playing fields to feature in the Mississippi’s Historic Playing Fields post, I was scoping out the athletic fields in Tunica across School Street from the former High School.  The athletic fields, including this baseball diamond, are estimated… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: Jackson’s Capitol Street, 1960s

  By ELMalvaney on September 30, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  I’ve seen a lot of postcards of Jackson’s Capitol Street looking from the far west end near the King Edward Hotel up to the Old Capitol, but this one goes in the opposite direction and shows some buildings that don’t… Read More ›

• HABS in Mississippi: Chaffin Farm, Amite County

  By ELMalvaney on September 29, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  There’s so little information about the Chaffin property that the MDAH Historic Resources Database throws up its hands and says “location not documented.” Because no one has seen it since 1936, when HABS photographer James Butters came through, the house… Read More ›

• See MoMA’s 1932 Modern Architecture: International Exhibit for Yourself

  By Thomas Rosell on September 28, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Through the wonders of the internet you can now see every MoMA exhibit ever.  Earlier this month the Museum of Modern Art in New York made their complete exhibition history, including photographs, archival documents, & exhibit catalogs, available online.  The 86-year-old Museum… Read More ›

• Roadside Mississippi: Homewood Manor, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on September 27, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  This former tourist court still stands as a trailer park on North State Street, up past Broadmoor and south of Cedars of Lebanon. Its cottages are gone, but a house that may be a remodeled version of the old 1940s… Read More ›

• Mississippi by Air: Biloxi’s Working Waterfront

  By ELMalvaney on September 23, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  I don’t know a date on this card, and I hope some Biloxi historians will voice their opinions, but it looks like it could pre-date the 1947 hurricane. Compare to the similar, but very different, pre-Camille and pre-Katrina views.

• Industrial Mississippi: Greenville Port

  By ELMalvaney on September 22, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  Many cities advertised their prime locations in the 1951 Manufacturer’s Record, dedicated to Mississippi’s industrial opportunities, including Greenville and its port. If I’m reading this image on MDOT’s Port of Greenville webpage correctly, it looks like they succeeded in expanding… Read More ›

• A.J. Downing Exhibit Now Available Online

  By Thomas Rosell on September 21, 2016 • ( 8 )

  

  For the 200th anniversary of his birth, the Avery Library at Columbia University featured an exhibition exploring the legacy of Andrew Jackson Downing.  The exhibit… “…showcases several editions of Downing’s publications and those of his many successors. It offers a glimpse into… Read More ›

• Mississippi’s Historic Playing Fields

  By Thomas Rosell on September 20, 2016 • ( 7 )

  

  It’s football time again folks.  This reminded me of an excerpt of a news roundup from this spring… Rick Cleveland’s article “Hometown teams are what make Mississippi, Mississippi” highlights a Smithsonian exhibit that is about to begin touring Mississippi. “In… Read More ›

• Going Inside: Ole Miss Chapel, c.1915

  By ELMalvaney on September 16, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  This fascinating picture comes from an even larger image, titled “Views on Campus, University of Mississippi,” a photo by John C. Coolvert that is available as an electronic record on the MDAH catalog. I had never noticed this interior view,… Read More ›

• HABS in Mississippi: Stanton Hall, Natchez

  By ELMalvaney on September 15, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  HABS photographer Lester Jones took a grand total of one photo of Stanton Hall in 1940, and because there are no photographer’s notes, it’s not clear why this grand historic home, now a National Historic Landmark and open daily for… Read More ›

• Monterey in Mississippi

  By ELMalvaney on September 14, 2016 • ( 15 )

  

  If you’ve been around MissPres for a while, you’ve know we’re big fans of “McAlester’s Field Guide” or more properly A Field Guide to American Houses. This was originally published in 1984, and I wore my paperback copy out by the time… Read More ›

• Happy 160th Birthday, Louis Sullivan!

  By Thomas Rosell on September 13, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  To commemorate the 160th anniversary of Louis Sullivan’s birth (which I foolishly missed on September 3rd) I’d like to pull from the archives a newspaper clipping regarding his most noted apprentice Frank Lloyd Wright.  Wright visited the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a guest… Read More ›

• Before and After on Jackson’s North State Street

  By ELMalvaney on September 12, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  BEFORE: AFTER: The photos tell the story of the resurrection of the Merrill-Maley House, built in 1907 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. After years as an antiques shop, and maybe a decade of vacancy and… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: Richton, c.1910

  By ELMalvaney on September 9, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  I like this postcard because of its obvious hand-tinting, but Richton has changed so much since its boom years as a lumber producer that I couldn’t really find where this view was taken. My best guess is that this is… Read More ›

• Industrial Mississippi: J.A. Olson Company, Winona

  By ELMalvaney on September 8, 2016 • ( 22 )

  

  When I began this post, I knew nothing about the J.A. Olson Company of Winona, but now through the wonders of the internets, I know that it manufactured mirrors and frames, that its headquarters was in Chicago, that this was… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-7-2016

  By Thomas Rosell on September 7, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  This mid-week news round-up is less varied than last week’s round-up, but it still features some good information.     Starting off with some concerning news regarding several large rehabilitation projects in both Gulfport and Natchez. In Gulfport, Virginia attorney Robert Lubin… Read More ›

• Labor Day 2016

  By ELMalvaney on September 5, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  On this Labor Day, we stop to consider an interesting footnote to the construction of Mississippi’s New Capitol, which I stumbled on by browsing around the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America database of historic newspapers. It seems that soon after construction… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: 1920s Corinth

  By ELMalvaney on September 2, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Today’s Mississippi street-scene comes from the Corinth, Miss. Collection at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History: The twenty black-and-white photographs in this collection were produced ca. 1920 by McCord’s Studio in Corinth. The images are of commercial buildings, houses,… Read More ›

• What’s the deal with the metal silos?

  By ELMalvaney on September 1, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  I love driving the back roads of the Mississippi Delta. Even if there aren’t any buildings or people, there’s always the landscape to take pictures of, and the sky. I especially love coming up on agricultural buildings, gins, the rare old… Read More ›

• Newspaper Clippings: Hattiesburg’s Ultra Modern J.C. Penney

  By Thomas Rosell on August 31, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  In July of 1945, the Hattiesburg J.C. Penney store at 122-126 W Pine Street suffered a significant fire.  This provided an opportunity for the company’s branding efforts to be put to use with a complete rebuilding of the store.  Sixteen… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-30-2016

  By Thomas Rosell on August 30, 2016 • ( 14 )

  

  This is my first attempt at a news roundup so please be forgiving.  If you have any additional information about any of these stories, or if you have your own preservation news from your neck of the woods, please let… Read More ›

• Missing the Golden Fisherman, a Tale of Katrina and Incompetent Salvagers

  By ELMalvaney on August 29, 2016 • ( 13 )

  

  There once was a Golden Fisherman who lived in downtown Biloxi, Mississippi, which at the time he was born, 1977, was non-ironically called “The Vieux Marche” (pronounced “The View Mar-SHAY”). . .

• Happy Centennial NPS!

  By ELMalvaney on August 26, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

• Roadside Mississippi: Dairy Freeze, Crystal Springs

  By Thomas Rosell on August 25, 2016 • ( 9 )

  

  The Dairy Freeze in Crystal Springs opened up c.1951 at the intersection of Hwy 51 and what I believe was old Hwy 27.  With Hwy 51 being the main drag between Jackson and Baton Rouge / New Orleans, the stand likely… Read More ›

• HABS in Mississippi: Oakland Chapel, ASU

  By ELMalvaney on August 24, 2016 • ( 17 )

  

  Strangely enough for a National Historic Landmark (and one of the 101 Mississippi Places To See Before You Die), we really don’t appear to have great information about the construction of Oakland Chapel at Alcorn State University. Originally built as… Read More ›

• To Facebook or Not to Facebook?

  By ELMalvaney on August 23, 2016 • ( 13 )

  

  It’s been over three years since we did a poll here on MissPres. That one asked how readers accessed MissPres–by laptop/desktop, smart phone, or tablet. Back then, desktops ruled the day with 89% of the vote. Around that time, we also debated… Read More ›

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