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Name This Place 13.3.4
For the fourth time today, Name This Place:
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Name This Place 13.3.3
Please read The Rules of the contest and use these two images to Name This Place:
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Name This Place 13.3.2
Two photos have been provided to make this place easier to name. So please read The Rules of the contest and Name This Place:
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Name This Place 13.3.1
In the first post of yesterday, Suzassippi increased her lead by two points for recognizing and providing some architectural history of the Old Merchants and Farmers Bank in downtown Meridian; though various other facts about the history could have been… Read More ›
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Name This Place 13.2.4
Our final place for the day with two photos provided to make this place easier to name. So please read The Rules of the contest and Name This Place:
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Name This Place 13.2.3
Please read The Rules of the contest and Name This Place:
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Name This Place 13.2.2
Two photos have been provided to make this place easier to name. So please read The Rules of the contest and Name This Place:
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Name This Place 13.2.1
A note before we get started with today’s parts of the contest. Please read The Rules of the contest and remember to leave your answers in the comment section on Preservation in Mississippi, not on Facebook or Twitter; answers left… Read More ›
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Name This Place 13.1.4
Our final place for today with two photos to aid in the naming.
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Name This Place 13.1.3
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Name This Place 13.1.2
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Name This Place 13.1.1
If you are just joining us, you have picked a great time. We are at the very start of the thirteenth edition of our Name This Place contest, wherein MissPres readers battle for the much-coveted title of Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire…. Read More ›
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Name This Place XIII: Google Street View Edition is Starting on Monday
Name This Place is a week-long contest run occasionally here on Preservation in Mississippi that allows MissPres readers to show off their knowledge of Mississippi’s historic architecture and bring out their competitive juices by competing to see which reader who correctly identifies the most historic… Read More ›
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Waverley Back on Pilgrimage Under New Owners
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Mississippi Landmark Public Notices, April 2019
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has recently added a new page, “Public Notice,” advising the public of potential new Mississippi Landmarks. Since this will, by definition change regularly, we’ll post anytime we see something new, but you (The… Read More ›
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How Madisonia Came to Windsor
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HABS in Mississippi: Concord Quarters, Natchez
Concord Quarters was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in January, and I believe this is the first individually listed slave quarters building (apart from a main house) in Mississippi. That’s fitting, since Concord, the c.1790 home of… Read More ›
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Tag Tuesday: 1820-1829
Wherein we take a look at what was going on in the great big world of architecture in the 1820s. Rosalie (1823), Natchez, Mississippi This National Historic Landmark Federal-style house overlooks the Mississippi River on the bluff in Natchez. St…. Read More ›
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Choose Your Pilgrimage
Spring Pilgrimage season kicked off last weekend in Natchez, with its month-long open house, and at least four other Mississippi communities are celebrating pilgrimage in the next month. For a convenient calendar view, check out the MissPres calendar, always available… Read More ›
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Natchez’ MLK Triangle: ‘Bookend’ for Redevelopment
This unpretentious little piece of real estate on the east side of downtown Natchez occupies a triangular section where M L King (formerly Pine) Street intersects with St. Catherine Street and Jefferson Street. This area has long been known as… Read More ›
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Vacation Postcards: Weidmann’s Restaurant, Meridian
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Vacation Postcards: Beck Motel, Waynesboro
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Vacation Postcards: USM Stadium, Hattiesburg
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Vacation Postcards: MSU President’s Home
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Vacation Postcards: Evangeline Restaurant, Pascagoula
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Rare Art Work of Mississippi Volume Digitized
Today’s post is contributed by inveterate MissPreser Ed Polk Douglas: Early in 2019, in doing some research on another topic, I was reminded of the existence of a folio- sized volume, originally issued in 9 paper folders, called Art Work of… Read More ›
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Tag Tuesday: 1810-1819
This week’s Tag Tuesday post is brought to you by the semi-circular (or round) arch and elliptical fanlight so characteristic of the Federal style that was coming into its own in the second decade of the nineteenth century. How many… Read More ›
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Happy Easter 2019 A.D.
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HABS in Mississippi: Concord Quarters, Natchez
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Columbus Marble Works and its architectural culls
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MissPres News Roundup 4-23-2018
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Tag Tuesday: 1830-1839
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Tag Tuesday: 1810-1819
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Seven Mississippi Places Added to National Register
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Civil Rights ›
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African American Civil Rights Preservation Grants
August 27, 2018
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Public Comments Open for Bringing Evers House into NPS
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MissPres News Roundup 5-8-2018
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Civil War ›
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MDAH Announces 2018 CLG Grants
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MissPres News Roundup 3-20-2018
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Meridian Police Station again under threat
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Who remembers Burger Chef?
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New research available on Mississippi’s oldest building
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HABS in Mississippi: Lowndes County Courthouse
January 30, 2019
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N. W. Overstreet-designed Alcorn County Courthouse Centennial on October 4
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A Call for Mississippi’s Best Preservation Projects
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Roadside Mississippi: Pizza as Architecture
January 15, 2020
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Itawamba County’s Historic Banner School, Preserved…For Now
September 9, 2019
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NPS plans to demolish . . . er . . . “remove” several National Register-listed Tupelo Homesteads. Tell them what you think by June 28!
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Mid-Century Mississippi: University Medical School and Teaching Hospital
February 28, 2019
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Hill-Burton Before and After: Franklin County Health Dept.
September 25, 2018
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HABS in Mississippi: Stealing an Alabama HABS Structure – “Jacinto” Doctor’s Office
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Friends of Kebyar Journal Issue about Bruce Goff’s Gutman House is Available Now
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Vacation Postcards: MSU President’s Home
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Lost Mississippi: Glenwood
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Two preservation related events this week
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Community Heritage Preservation Grant Applications Open
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MissPres News Roundup 6-25-2019
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New Deal in Mississippi: Laurel Sweet Potato Starch Factory
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Historic Natchez Foundation Unveils New Website
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Mid-Century Mississippi: Subsistence Homesteads
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Your Solar House in Mississippi
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Six properties added to National Register
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Historic Hunt High School Damaged in Columbus Tornado
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New Deal ›
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Memorial Day 2019
May 27, 2019
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Carson’s former Art Deco gymnasium-auditorium
April 16, 2019
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War Memorial Building’s Mystery Faces Revealed?
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Changes at MDAH Historic Sites
April 23, 2019
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A news roundup before the weekend
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MissPres News Roundup 5-29-2018
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Preservation People/Events ›
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Nominate Mississippi’s Most Endangered Historic Places and Show Off Your Photography Skills
June 26, 2019
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Listen Up: Journey to a Downtown Turnaround
May 24, 2019
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Exhibit on builder Carroll Ishee on display
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Delta Queen Coming Back to the River
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Nominate your Best of the South!
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Waverley Back on Pilgrimage Under New Owners
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