Preservation in Mississippi

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• Mississippi Streets: 1930s Biloxi

  By ELMalvaney on June 24, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Same view April 2013, courtesy Google Streetview. See other Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City 1910s Vicksburg 1950s New Albany 1960s Meridian 1930s Camp Shelby 1950s Pascagoula 1960s Neshoba County Fair Drew 1937 Tupelo 1936 Vicksburg 1936 1940s Gulfport 1940s Columbus… Read More ›

• Roadside Mississippi: Photographer John Margolies

  By ELMalvaney on June 22, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Recently, a MissPres reader sent me the link to John Margolies’s obituary. You may not know the name, but if you enjoy mid-century commercial Modernism, you’ve probably seen his images of neon signs, interesting roadside vernacular architecture, and other sites… Read More ›

• Prospect Hill Has a New Roof!

  By ELMalvaney on June 21, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Compare that picture with these: How long has MissPres been watching Prospect Hill? Since the beginning . . . An Important House Needs Our Help An Important House Needs Our Help, Part II A Fall Day at Prospect Hill New Hope… Read More ›

• Bruce Goff’s Mississippi Work in His Own Spoken Words

  By Thomas Rosell on June 17, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  Comments by architect Bruce Goff about his two Mississippi Coast houses, the groovy Gryder House in Ocean Springs and the spaceship Gutman House in Gulfport. Plus the best construction sign award goes to “We Don’t Like Your House Either.”

• HABS in Mississippi: Kingston Methodist Church

  By ELMalvaney on June 16, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  From the MDAH Historic Resources Database: A hip-roofed stuccoed building with a projecting distyle portico, the Kingston Methodist Church is a highly significant example of the Greek Revival style. This significance is based on the high degree of architectural finish,… Read More ›

• What is an Archipedia?

  By Thomas Rosell on June 15, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Mississippi architecture is about to get its due on the Society of Architectural Historians’ online database, Archipedia.

• Dendrochronology Dates La Pointe-Krebs House to 1757

  By ELMalvaney on June 13, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Back in February, Thomas Rosell reported that a team from the Dendrochronology Lab of the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of Southern Mississippi was beginning a dendrochronology study of the de La Pointe-Krebs House, aka Old Spanish Fort, in Pascagoula. While… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday Bruce Goff & Frank Lloyd Wright

  By Thomas Rosell on June 10, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  June 8 is the birth date shared by architects Bruce Goff and Frank Lloyd Wright. While Wright, born in Wisconsin in 1867, is better known, Goff, born in Kansas in 1904, is one of the few architects that Wright would… Read More ›

• Industrial Mississippi: Jackson Lamp and Glass Works

  By ELMalvaney on June 9, 2016 • ( 5 )

  

  Today’s page from the 1951 Mississippi edition of Manufacturer’s Record highlights a building that still survives on Highway 80, across from Battlefield Park in Jackson, the former General Electric Lamp and Glass Works. According to the MDAH Historic Resources Database, the… Read More ›

• A Piece of Pascagoula History on the Market

  By Thomas Rosell on June 8, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  I recently saw a Pascagoula real estate listing that caught my eye.  The former Pascagoula National Bank at 535 Delmas Avenue is on the market.  Originally built in 1938, the bank is the only building I am aware of that R…. Read More ›

• Time to nominate your Best of the South project!

  By ELMalvaney on June 6, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Mississippi has won four Best of the South awards. Which preservation project from the last two years should be honored this year?

• Mississippi Streets: 1960s Columbus

  By ELMalvaney on June 3, 2016 • ( 7 )

  

  Same view as of May 2013, courtesy of Google streetview. Columbus has done a great job preserving and revitalizing their downtown, even that great Modernist department store, Ruth’s (which looks like it got paneled maybe around 1970?) that now houses… Read More ›

• HABS in Mississippi: Hope Farm, Natchez

  By ELMalvaney on June 2, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  According to the MDAH Historic Resources Database: “Hope Farm is thought to have been constructed in the late 18th century, making it one of the oldest buildings remaining in the state. It is believed that the house was constructed by… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architects: Rathbone DeBuys (1874-1960)

  By Thomas Rosell on June 1, 2016 • ( 10 )

  

  New Orleans architect Rathbone DeBuys has been mentioned many times over the years here on MissPres, but recently I was surprised to see we have never had a feature post dedicated to his work in Mississippi.  This was something I had not discovered until I found… Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: Edwards Gymnasium

  By Suzassippi on May 31, 2016 • ( 7 )

  

  Edwards High School Gymnasium, designed by architect James Manly Spain in the Art Moderne style, was constructed 1941 by the National Youth Administration (Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory). Only a year prior, Governor Paul Johnson vetoed… Read More ›

• Memorial Day 2016

  By ELMalvaney on May 30, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  According to the E.M. Viquesny Doughboy Database website: An intricate grilled door with a large American Legion emblem encloses the original plaque, which reads: 1917-1918 TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOR OF THOSE OF LAUDERDALE COUNTY WHO PATRIOTICALLY… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: Fulton’s Concrete Highway, c.1940

  By ELMalvaney on May 27, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  —————————————- See other Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City 1910s Vicksburg 1950s New Albany 1960s Meridian 1930s Camp Shelby 1950s Pascagoula 1960s Neshoba County Fair Drew 1937 Tupelo 1936 Vicksburg 1936 1940s Gulfport 1940s Columbus Greenville 1927 Lexington 1939 1910s Meridian… Read More ›

• HABS in Mississippi: Skipwith House, Oxford

  By ELMalvaney on May 26, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  Unlike yesterday’s Rice-Stix Factory in Water Valley, you won’t have a chance to visit today’s featured building when you attend next week’s ListenUp! preservation conference. Probably designed and built by architect Gustavus M. Torgerson in 1876, the eclectic, Second Empire-style… Read More ›

• Industrial Mississippi: Rice-Stix Factory, Water Valley

  By ELMalvaney on May 25, 2016 • ( 5 )

  

  In anticipation of next week’s ListenUp! preservation conference in Water Valley . . . The Rice-Stix factory in Water Valley, pictured here in the 1951 Mississippi issue of Manufacturer’s Record, opened on February 28, 1946, according to the webpage “Water Valley… Read More ›

• Historic East Howard Avenue Walking Tour Report

  By ELMalvaney on May 24, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Today’s post is brought to you by a guest author, Jeff Rosenberg of Biloxi. Jeff was a preservation specialist in the MDAH Gulf Coast Office from 2006 until 2014 and now works as a consultant and has become a historic home… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-23-2016

  By ELMalvaney on May 23, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  From Ingomar Mound to Prospect Hill Plantation, from parapets falling to gravestones standing up and “Wade” handwritten on a sill, the MissPres news roundup has got it covered.

• Mississippi Streets: 1960s Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on May 20, 2016 • ( 12 )

  

  See other Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City 1910s Vicksburg 1950s New Albany 1960s Meridian 1930s Camp Shelby 1950s Pascagoula 1960s Neshoba County Fair Drew 1937 Tupelo 1936 Vicksburg 1936 1940s Gulfport 1940s Columbus Greenville 1927 Lexington 1939 1910s Meridian 1920s… Read More ›

• Industrial Mississippi: Blue Bell, Natchez and Belmont

  By ELMalvaney on May 19, 2016 • ( 9 )

  

  I had heard of the Blue Bell plant in Natchez, but until seeing this advertisement in the 1946 edition of Manufacturer’s Record, I assumed it was an ice cream company. The World Wide Web also informs me that Blue Bell (of… Read More ›

• N. W. Overstreet, 1928

  By Thomas Rosell on May 18, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  If you missed it, or if last week’s History Is Lunch series presentation by Michael Fazio has you hankering for more  N.W. Overstreet, below is a brief biography of Mississippi’s homegrown architect from a 1928 publication with the long winded title From Mississippi Today :… Read More ›

• Summer Events for MissPresers

  By ELMalvaney on May 16, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Several emails about upcoming events in Mississippi preservation came through my inbox last week and I thought all MissPresers would want to know. Here they are, in chronological order (and they’ve all been placed on the MissPres calendar, for your… Read More ›

• Going Inside: Sun-n-Sand Hotel, Biloxi

  By ELMalvaney on May 13, 2016 • ( 34 )

  

  The Sun-n-Sand had a beach side and a land side, as seen in this 1960s postcard. Maybe Tom Barnes can tell us more about this long-gone motel and what happened to the marble mosaic imported from Italy.

• Gloster Craftsman/Prairie

  By ELMalvaney on May 12, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  I know nothing about this gorgeous two-story clapboard house in the little town of Gloster down in Amite County, except that I screeched to a halt in the middle of the street when I saw it and took these pictures… Read More ›

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