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• Not Good News from Hattiesburg

  By Thomas Rosell on November 18, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Rainy weather last weekend cast a pallor that hung over Hattiesburg and provided a mood to match the endangered condition of several of that fair city’s landmark structures. Easton School having been victim of years of neglect by the City of Hattiesburg is… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: The Folk Tradition of Gravehouses

  By Suzassippi on November 17, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  The recent post from Thomas Rosell about Biloxi cemetery canopies, and W. White’s follow up comments about gravehouses inspired me to further investigate this new-to-me phenomenon of southern folk culture.  There are three earlier cultural traditions that may have influenced… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: Vicksburg 1936

  By ELMalvaney on November 13, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Who will be the first to identify which street and which building Walker Evans captured in 1936?

• Craftsman in Mississippi: Terry Bungalow

  By ELMalvaney on November 12, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  I don’t know anything about this little bungalow on Cunningham Street in Terry, south of Jackson, except that the geometry of the gable ends made me stop in the post office parking lot across the street and snap these pictures…. Read More ›

• Veterans Day 2015

  By ELMalvaney on November 11, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  See more Veterans Day posts: 2014: Doughboy Monument, Meridian 2013: Greenville Army Flying School 2012: Reprint of Art and the Soldier: Keesler Field 2010: Camp Shelby in WWII 2009: War Memorial Building, Jackson

• New Deal in Mississippi: Leake County Courthouse

  By Suzassippi on November 10, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  The Leake County Courthouse in Carthage is unique in that the entrances are on the narrow ends of the building.  The courthouse square is a long narrow lot in the center of the town.  I do not recall seeing another… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 11-9-2015

  By ELMalvaney on November 9, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Let’s get right to a few items of note from the past two weeks in our little rainy, finally fall-like part of the world. Up in Holly Springs, work may finally be on the horizon to stabilize the Carnegie Auditorium on… Read More ›

• Mississippi by Air: State Sanatorium

  By ELMalvaney on November 6, 2015 • ( 20 )

  

• Merigold Craftsman

  By ELMalvaney on November 5, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  When you’re driving through the Mississippi Delta, where there is no building stone, and you see stone columns, you stop to take pictures. That’s what I did while poking around Merigold after a stop at McCartys Pottery. As I recall,… Read More ›

• Newspaper Clippings: Death of an Ancient Black Builder

  By ELMalvaney on November 4, 2015 • ( 4 )

  I can’t claim to have come across this little gem on my own. I found a reference to it in John Hebron Moore’s The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest, and just had to track it down. To… Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: Carthage US Post Office and carved wood bas relief

  By Suzassippi on November 3, 2015 • ( 11 )

  

  The 1939 Carthage post office has the distinction of being not only one of 32 Mississippi post offices constructed with New Deal funds, but one with several unique details that enable the building and its art work to stand out… Read More ›

• New Capitol Nominated for NHL Status

  By ELMalvaney on November 2, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  According to the MDAH Historic Preservation Division Facebook page: We are excited to announce that at its November 2015 meeting, the National Park Service’s Landmarks Committee will be considering whether to recommend the Mississippi State Capitol for National Historic Landmark… Read More ›

• Biloxi Cemetery Canopies

  By Thomas Rosell on November 2, 2015 • ( 27 )

  

  A belated happy All Saints’ Day to you.  If you’ve ever been through the Biloxi Cemetery you may have seen structures over plots that resemble a tent frame. According to the 1938 WPA Guide to Mississippi the structures are… “Probably… Read More ›

• Going Inside: Cotton Warehouse, c.1940

  By ELMalvaney on October 30, 2015 • ( 11 )

  

  It’s that time of year when the cotton has been brought in from the fields, which now look a bit bereft and battered. Cotton warehouses are scattered all over the state (last time I was in Holly Springs, the massive… Read More ›

• Money Craftsman

  By ELMalvaney on October 29, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  In the rural Delta community of Money, and next door to the crumbling Bryant’s Grocery, which became infamous as the beginning of the Emmett Till tragedy in 1955, is the Craftsman-style Ben Roy Service Station. Because the Money Store itself is… Read More ›

• Mississippi Unbuilt: A Capitol at Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on October 28, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  In the banner of the Vicksburg Weekly Whig appear the names of Marmaduke Shannon, Publisher and Proprietor, and James K. Carnes, Editor. I’m not sure which one of them is responsible for this zinger of an editorial, but it deserves an… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 10-27-2015

  By ELMalvaney on October 27, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Due to an unexpected power outage this weekend, just as I was beginning to think about putting together an overdue news roundup, this roundup is filling Suzassippi’s usual Tuesday slot. Following up on last month’s exciting announcement about a new… Read More ›

• MHT Announces Mississippi’s 10 Most Endangered Places for 2015-2016

  By ELMalvaney on October 23, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  MHT’s 10 Most Endangered Places unveiling for 2015 came off without a hitch at MHT’s Lowry House, still under construction but looking pretty spiffy. This was the 10th unveiling since the list was introduced in 1999, meaning that we have reached… Read More ›

• Belhaven Craftsman: Emmett J. Hull House

  By ELMalvaney on October 22, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  One of the things on my To-Do list for November is to go down to the Mississippi Museum of Art and spend time looking at the big exhibit on Jackson artist Marie Hull, “Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull.”… Read More ›

• Exhibition of the Architecture of Carl E. Matthes Sr.

  By Thomas Rosell on October 21, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  The Local History & Genealogy Department of the Harrison County Library System is currently showing an exhibit on the works of Carl E. Matthes, Sr. (1896-1972).  The exhibit features many newspaper clippings,  photographs, and original plans from both Matthes’ independent practice and… Read More ›

• Tallahatchie Courthouse Is SESAH’s Best of the South

  By ELMalvaney on October 19, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Congratulations to Belinda Stewart Architects and everyone involved in the multi-year restoration of the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner. The project has been awarded the 2015 Best of the South award by the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians at their latest… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: Port Gibson 1940

  By ELMalvaney on October 16, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  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

• Roadside Mississippi: Holiday Terrace Motel, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on October 14, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Construction Begins On New Modern Motel Construction has been started on Jackson’s ultra modern motel, “Holiday Terrace” on Highway 80 West, at the corner of Valley Street, according to Louis W. Cotton and Company, agents for Cleve Myers, Incorporated, owners…. Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: Edgar Lucian Malvaney’s Vaiden High School

  By Suzassippi on October 13, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  E. L. Malvaney’s Vaiden High School has been profiled previously on Preservation in Mississippi for its placement on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.  Mary Howard and architect Belinda Stewart (2008) wrote the nomination for the …two and… Read More ›

• Almost Time for 10 Most!

  By Lolly Barnes on October 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  On Thursday, October 22, the Mississippi Heritage Trust will announce the 10th list of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in Mississippi at the Lowry House in Jackson, once endangered and now undergoing an extensive restoration. The Mississippi Heritage Trust… Read More ›

• Drummond Street Craftsman

  By ELMalvaney on October 8, 2015 • ( 12 )

  

  This sprawling house at 3220 Drummond Street in the southern suburbs of Vickburg doesn’t fit neatly into the categories of the “Craftsman style” as defined in McAlester’s A Field Guide to American Houses, but I’m including it in our Craftsman… Read More ›

• Then & Now: Sheraton Motor Inn

  By ELMalvaney on October 7, 2015 • ( 14 )

  

  Today’s Then and Now is a lesson in the life-cycle of hotels in our throw-away society. If you’ve driven down I-55 in Jackson recently, you’ve seen the former Sheraton Motor Inn just north of the Northside Drive exit, but you… Read More ›

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