Preservation in Mississippi

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• Let’s Revisit Ceres, Shall We?

  By ELMalvaney on August 19, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  Maybe you remember the little brewhaha over the proposed demolition of antebellum Ceres Plantation, located on the north side of I-20 just east of Vicksburg, beginning in 2009. It had had the misfortune of being bought by the Warren County… Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: Tupelo Homesteads

  By Suzassippi on August 18, 2015 • ( 9 )

  

  Historic houses from the New Deal era are in the news, and hopefully, it will be good news.  The National Park Service, which owns the houses located behind the Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center since they were transferred in 1940,… Read More ›

• 46th Anniversary of Hurricane Camille

  By Thomas Rosell on August 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  To mark this occasion let’s look back at a collection of posts as to how we’ve previously commemorated the anniversary of the Gulf Coast’s second-most destructive storm in memory. Last year we marked the 45th Anniversary of Hurricane Camille by taking a… Read More ›

• Tomorrow! Mississippi Heritage Trust Preservation Trail

  By Thomas Rosell on August 14, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  If you haven’t seen any of the previous posts… Tomorrow, August 15, 2015, is the day of the Mississippi Heritage Trust Gulf Coast Preservation Trail.  This is your chance to poke around historic places across the Mississippi Gulf Coast that were saved or… Read More ›

• Craftsman Porches of Yazoo City

  By ELMalvaney on August 13, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Our Craftsman series usually focuses on the Craftsman bungalows found in even the smallest of Mississippi towns. But you don’t need a whole house to show your Craftsman style–sometimes a great porch will do the trick. Maybe you didn’t even… Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: Mississippi Federation of Women’s Clubs

  By Suzassippi on August 11, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  The headquarters for the Mississippi Federation of Women’s Clubs, constructed in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration, was designed by architect R. W. Naef in the Georgian-Revival style (Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory).  According to the… Read More ›

• Mail Order Mississippi: George F. Barber, Archt.

  By Thomas Rosell on August 7, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  George Franklin Barber was a successful architect known for his mail order plan business.  He was widely published in his time and he extensively advertised his plan books and services. His Victorian couture designs can be seen all over Mississippi,… Read More ›

• Gulf Coast Preservation Trail next Saturday August 15

  By Thomas Rosell on August 6, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Just a reminder that the Mississippi Heritage Trust “Preservation Trail” event commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the preservation victories that came out of tragedy, will take place Saturday August 15, 2015 from 10am to 2pm.  This is an… Read More ›

• From Former Canton High School to Canton High Apartments

  By Suzassippi on August 4, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  The original portion of Canton High School was constructed in 1923, designed by architect N. W. Overstreet (Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory).  The Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works funded an addition to the building which… Read More ›

• Update on Endangered Holly Springs House

  By ELMalvaney on August 3, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  New research by Preserve Marshall County and Holly Springs on the endangered “little white house” behind Holly Springs City Hall indicates it was in fact the original surveyor’s office of Hugh Craft, who came to town as a surveyor for… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: 1960s Neshoba County Fair

  By ELMalvaney on July 31, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Welcome to Happy Hollow

• Follow the Preservation Trail

  By Lolly Barnes on July 30, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  As we approach the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, it is hard to look back over the past ten years without feeling a tidal wave of emotions.  Yes, loss and sadness are certainly there, but I find, for myself, that I… Read More ›

• Roadside Mississippi: Green Derby Restaurant, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on July 29, 2015 • ( 27 )

  

  Green Derby New Restaurant Being Built A handsome new dining place is under construction in West Jackson to be operated by the Green Derby Restaurant for the Drake Motel. Wise Construction Company of Jackson is building the 4,000 square foot… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 7-27-2015

  By ELMalvaney on July 27, 2015 • ( 18 )

  

  Remember the good ol’ days when we could take a week or two off from news roundups in the summer and not miss much? Those days are gone, my friend, and things have been hopping, and not in a good way, in the last couple of weeks.

• Unbuilt Mississippi: An R.H. Hunt Bank in Biloxi

  By Thomas Rosell on July 23, 2015 • ( 9 )

  

  This Unbuilt Mississippi post features what would have been the tallest structure in downtown Biloxi until the construction of the Santa Maria del Mar in the early 1970’s.  I was able to find this nugget in a 1908 issue of The… Read More ›

• Another One Bites the Dust

  By ELMalvaney on July 22, 2015 • ( 9 )

  

  It’s not suspicious at all when a backhoe appears on a Saturday morning behind a historic city-owned building that’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been the subject of intense local debate, has been included on the… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Hawkins Field Terminal Restoration

  By Suzassippi on July 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Construction began on Jackson’s municipal airport terminal building in 1936, financed by the Works Progress Administration.  Currently undergoing extensive renovation in a project supported by the United States Department of Interior, National Park Service, Mississippi Department of Archives and History,… Read More ›

• Mississippi Modern Exhibit

  By ELMalvaney on July 20, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  If you find yourself in or near downtown Jackson, be sure to swing by the Old Capitol Museum, where “Mississippi Modern,” a photographic exhibit of Modernist buildings around the state, is on display from July 14 through November 15, 2015. The… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: 1950s Pascagoula

  By ELMalvaney on July 17, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  See other Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City 1910s Vicksburg 1950s New Albany 1960s Meridian 1930s Camp Shelby

• Mississippi Architect, Feb. 1965: River Hills Country Club

  By ELMalvaney on July 16, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  The true, for-real last article from the original Mississippi Architect.

• Battered Bay St. Louis Bungalow

  By Thomas Rosell on July 15, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  I had mentioned several weeks ago to reader gstone that I had seen post Katrina photographs of the Craftsman cottage featured in the Bay Bungalow post.  Due to ongoing computer problems I am not able to find the photos I… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 7-13-2015

  By ELMalvaney on July 13, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Murder, mayhem, and money top the list of news items in this week’s MissPres News Roundup.

• New Round of Community Heritage Preservation Grants Is Open

  By ELMalvaney on July 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  From the Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History website. Preservation Grants Available –posted July 06, 2015 A popular grant program for preservation projects across the state has been reauthorized. The 2015 Mississippi legislature provided for $2.8 million in competitive grants… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, March 1965: Whitten Jr. High School

  By ELMalvaney on July 9, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  The last issue of the first run of Mississippi Architect, published monthly from February 1963 through March 1965, highlighted Whitten Junior High School in Jackson, a building constructed in 1960 as a close twin of Chastain Middle School in northeast… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect: March 1965

  By ELMalvaney on July 8, 2015 • ( 5 )

  Editor Bob Henry’s final editorial in the Mississippi Architect is a precient warning about the encroaching blandness of Modernism. You can almost catch a wiff of post-Modernism around the corner waiting to jump out and surprise a bored American public.

• Bexley School Restored!

  By ELMalvaney on July 6, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  You would have to be an original reader of Preservation in Mississippi to remember my ode to Bexley School in George County, all the way back in July 2009. The two-classroom school sits overlooking Highway 98 near Lucedale, and it’s… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: Columbus Tourist Court

  By ELMalvaney on July 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past. For an alternate view, see http://collections.msdiglib.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/columbus/id/262/rec/11

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