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• 1940 Inaugural Columbus Pilgrimage – Tour of Homes

  By W. White on March 29, 2016 • ( 22 )

  

  Yesterday, in honor of the beginning of this year’s Columbus Spring Pilgrimage, we had a short introduction to the inaugural Columbus Pilgrimage, held April 14-16, 1940. Today’s post contains information about the twenty-two antebellum homes featured in that inaugural Columbus… Read More ›

• 1940 Inaugural Columbus Pilgrimage

  By W. White on March 28, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Today is the start of Columbus’s two-week long Spring Pilgrimage. This makes it the opportune time to look back at the Pilgrimage, in fact, all the way back to the first one, in 1940. The “Program and Historical Facts” book published… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-28-2016

  By ELMalvaney on March 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The biggest preservation news this week comes from the Legislature, where lawmakers are debating renewal of the Historic Preservation Tax Credit, which provides a tax credit for rehabilitation of National Register-listed properties amounting to 25% of the cost of renovation…. Read More ›

• Happy Easter 2016 A.D.

  By ELMalvaney on March 27, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

• Industrial Mississippi 1946: N&W Overall Company

  By ELMalvaney on March 24, 2016 • ( 7 )

  

  Here’s another episode from the January 1946 edition of the Manufacturer’s Record, which focused on Mississippi’s industrial potential. To read more about the N&W Overall Company (later Dickies) building, which still stands on the south side of downtown Jackson, see the National… Read More ›

• Architect Pics: Claude H. Lindsley, 1968

  By Thomas Rosell on March 23, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  If you’ve hung around MissPres for a while now you might have become familiar with Claude Lindsley and come to know his reputation as a bit of a mystery man.  Malvaney first posted a picture back in 2010 of Lindsley… Read More ›

• Meridian: Traveling with the Green Book in Mississippi

  By Suzassippi on March 22, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  Our next stop in using Victor Green’s The Green Book, assurance of accommodation for the African American traveler from 1936-1967, is Meridian.  The year 1939 was the first year Mississippi was listed in the Green Book, with only 6 hotels. … Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-21-2016

  By ELMalvaney on March 21, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  From sunken treasures to interpretive plaques on Confederate monuments, this week’s roundup proves it’s definitely not all moonlight and magnolias here in azalea-blooming, early-Spring Mississippi.

• Friday Puzzler: Webster County Court House

  By Thomas Rosell on March 18, 2016 • ( 15 )

  

  This Friday do something the Webster County supervisors couldn’t do.  Rather than chose to fight the insurance company and preservationists to get a metal new building, you can put the Webster County Courthouse back together.  Unlike the supervisors, I bet you won’t take two… Read More ›

• Hop On The Bus For A Mad Mod Affair In The Delta

  By Lolly Barnes on March 16, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

    Mississippi Heritage Trust Mad Mod Affair Delta Saturday, April 2 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.-Architectural Tour of the Delta $25 a person Architects in the mid-twentieth century defied tradition and experimented with color, form and materials to create the… Read More ›

• Seven Years: The Hostess House, and the Female Architect (…and Mississippi)

  By Thomas Rosell on March 16, 2016 • ( 11 )

  

  MissPres will be celebrating its seventh anniversary during 2016.  To acknowledge this achievement we will be looking back at some of our earlier posts while sharing thoughts and any developments that have occurred since the post originally debuted.  Today’s post is on a… Read More ›

• Adaptive Reuse

  By Thomas Rosell on March 15, 2016 • ( 12 )

  

  Last September in Malvaney’s post on Mid-Century Fondren’s First National Bank R P Adams commented that as drive up traffic became heavier than lobby traffic banks started having smaller or in some cases no interior banking floor, turning full efforts to multiple… Read More ›

• Traveling with The Green Book in Mississippi: First stop, Queen City Hotel in Columbus

  By Suzassippi on March 14, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  Victor H. Green, Editor and Publisher, introduced the Green Book in 1936 as a local publication for the New York City area.  “Motoring” for leisure was catching on, but Green, as an African American businessman from New York City, was… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: Johnnie Cleveland’s Trailer Town

  By ELMalvaney on March 11, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• Vacation Postcards: Elvis Presley Memorial Chapel

  By ELMalvaney on March 10, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• Vacation Postcards: Greenville Cadet Club

  By ELMalvaney on March 9, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• Vacation Postcards: Northwood Country Club, Meridian

  By ELMalvaney on March 8, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• Vacation Postcards: Methodist Seashore Camp Grounds

  By ELMalvaney on March 7, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• New Capitol Updates

  By ELMalvaney on March 4, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  If you’ve been in downtown Jackson in the last two months, you’ve noticed that the scaffolding has come down from the dome, or more precisely from the cupola above the dome. This won’t be the last time we see the… Read More ›

• More Gordon-Van Tine Southern Bungalows

  By ELMalvaney on March 3, 2016 • ( 9 )

  

  Today’s post will end our regular Thursday Craftsman-style series, but we’ll have more Craftsman posts pop up on an irregular basis because there are just too many great Craftsman buildings in Mississippi to ignore. These are just a sampling to… Read More ›

• Biloxi Aeroplane Bungalow

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

  

  I had always thought the term “Aeroplane” or “Airplane” Bungalow was a modern term, one of the many bizarre descriptions that are a lay person’s terminology or inscribed by super studious architectural historians to describe an architectural trend.   So imagine my… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: The “Cotton Pickers” B. P. O. Elks Lodge

  By Suzassippi on March 1, 2016 • ( 8 )

  

  The cornerstone for the old Elks Club, Lodge #148 on Washington Avenue in Greenville, was laid April 19, 1906. Today has been a gala day in Greenville, the streets are crowded, banners are floating, and the town in decorated in… Read More ›

• Dendrochronology underway at Pascagoula’s La Pointe Krebs House

  By Thomas Rosell on February 29, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  The earliest standing European structure in Mississippi may soon have a specific date associated with its construction.  While it is agreed that the La Pointe Krebs House is the oldest extant structure, it’s not known exactly how old the building is.  Differing reports… Read More ›

• Fire Destroys Hazlehurst’s I.N. Ellis House

  By ELMalvaney on February 28, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Fire has completely destroyed Hazlehurst’s I.N. Ellis House, a Queen Anne-style George Barber design built in 1891, according to a story on MSNewsNow (WLBT). Highlighted in Thomas Rosell’s post about George Barber’s mail-order houses, this was perhaps the most architecturally… Read More ›

• Removing the Scar from the War Memorial

  By ELMalvaney on February 26, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  If you’ve been to an event at the Old Capitol or the War Memorial Building in the last five to six months, you’ve probably noticed the disturbingly large brown Rorschach Test-like marking on the limestone of the War Memorial’s south wall,… Read More ›

• Mississippi Craftsman: Gordon-Van Tine’s Pre-Cut Bungalows

  By ELMalvaney on February 25, 2016 • ( 9 )

  

  A couple of weeks ago, the post “Brick Bungalows and Plan Books” showed how house builders, using plan books and newspaper advertisements, sold the Craftsman style and more generally the bungalow’s “modern” open plan to middle-class buyers. Today and next week… Read More ›

• Mid-Century Mississippi: “This building was moved from the airfield”

  By ELMalvaney on February 24, 2016 • ( 9 )

  

  It is not an uncommon experience when traveling the back roads of Mississippi and talking with people about the buildings they know about to hear, “This building was moved from the airfield after World War II.” This seems most common… Read More ›

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