Preservation in Mississippi

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• Vacation Postcards: Carriage Inn, Hattiesburg

  By ELMalvaney on July 2, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

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

• Vacation Postcards: Stradivari Court, Natchez

  By ELMalvaney on July 1, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

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

• Vacation Postcards: Harvey Motel, Macon

  By ELMalvaney on June 30, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

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

• Vacation Postcards: Highland Park, Meridian

  By ELMalvaney on June 29, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past. See also “Swimming Pools for Some.”

• Bay Bungalow

  By Thomas Rosell on June 24, 2015 • ( 16 )

  

  The plans for this Bay St. Louis, Mississippi craftsman bungalow are in the Edward F. Sporl Office Records collection at Tulane University’s South Eastern Architectural Archives.  The plans were featured in the just past bungalow exhibit.  Here is what information was provided… Read More ›

• MDAH at work: Rowan Oak gets some TLC, too

  By Suzassippi on June 23, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  Last week we took a tour of the exterior repairs on the Walton-Young House, one of the University of Mississippi’s museums.  This week, we’ll check out the exterior repairs at Rowan Oak.  Both projects are part of the same MDAH… Read More ›

• Is It Historic? Is It Endangered? Is It Worth Fighting For?

  By Lolly Barnes on June 19, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  On Thursday, October 22, the Mississippi Heritage Trust will announce the 10th listing of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in Mississippi at the Lowry House in Jackson, once endangered and now undergoing a remarkable transformation. Is there a historic… Read More ›

• Sad News From Lake Washington

  By ELMalvaney on June 17, 2015 • ( 25 )

  

  This morning, I checked my email to find several quick anguished notes from Delta friends letting me know that our beloved Mt. Holly, long endangered but beautiful even in its decline, was in flames. On Facebook, the group called “Antebellum Mansions of… Read More ›

• Oxford’s Walton-Young House undergoing exterior repair

  By Suzassippi on June 17, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Good news for the c.1880 Italianate Walton-Young House on University Avenue: a little TLC for the exterior!  The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is supporting the repairs through its Community Heritage Preservation Grant.  Architect for the work is Belinda… Read More ›

• Fernwood Craftsman Bungalow

  By Thomas Rosell on June 15, 2015 • ( 18 )

  

  The plans for this Fernwood, Mississippi craftsman bungalow are in the William T. Nolan Office Records collection at Tulane University’s South Eastern Architectural Archives.  The recently conserved plans were featured in the just past bungalow exhibit.  Here is what information was… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-15-2015

  By ELMalvaney on June 15, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Well, I have played hookey from the news roundup for so long that my list of articles was starting to really look at me askance, so to catch us all up, how about one of those Cliff Notes versions that… Read More ›

• Mississippi by Air: Biloxi Waterfront After Casinos

  By Thomas Rosell on June 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This pre-Hurricane Katrina postcard acts as a book end for the c. 1964 pre-Hurricane Camille postcard from Tuesday’s post.  That postcard was originally featured on MissPres in the post Mississippi by Air: Biloxi Waterfront Before Casinos

• Mississippi’s Governor’s Mansion, 1874 (Part II)

  By ELMalvaney on June 4, 2015 • ( 9 )

  

  Last week, we were introduced to Blanche Butler Ames (1847-1939), wife of Adelbert Ames, a Massachusetts native and former Union general who served two non-consecutive terms as governor during Reconstruction. Young Blanche entered the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion with some trepidation, unimpressed by… Read More ›

• Happy Shrimp Season

  By Thomas Rosell on June 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  If you are feeling down in the dumps from the start of hurricane season and Monday’s hurricane post, maybe the start of shrimp season with the promise of wonderful fresh shrimp will lift your spirit. The horizon south of the… Read More ›

• Six Years: Happy (?) Hurricane Season

  By Thomas Rosell on June 1, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Another Atlantic hurricane season is upon us.  Buy your supplies early and check to make sure your hurricane preparation plans for your historic (and not so historic) structures are up-to-date. Happy (?) Hurricane Season BY E L MALVANEY on JUNE 1, 2009… Read More ›

• Mississippi by Air: Broadwater Beach, Biloxi

  By ELMalvaney on May 29, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  For the Broadwater’s story, see “Pleasure Domes Past” by Tom Barnes.

• Mississippi Governor’s Mansion, 1874

  By ELMalvaney on May 28, 2015 • ( 13 )

  

  Recently, I came across an interesting description of the Governor’s Mansion published in a book called Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: Family Letters of Blanche Butler and Adelbert Ames, in Two Volumes. This is not a source I would have… Read More ›

• Builders of Mississippi: Charles M. Rubush (1844-1912)

  By ELMalvaney on May 27, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  As in the rest of the country in the late nineteenth century, Mississippi’s construction trades were evolving from one-man operations and small partnerships to large building firms. Two men at the forefront of this development were Meridian’s Charles M. Rubush,… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Steamboat to Dreamboat

  By Suzassippi on May 26, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  While paging through an old Life magazine, my eye caught the “Mississippi” in this advertisement.  Steamboats have been part of the history and culture of the Mississippi River from its Lake Itasca, Minnesota origins to where it empties into the Gulf of… Read More ›

• Memorial Day 2015

  By ELMalvaney on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• Mississippi Streets: 1930s Camp Shelby

  By ELMalvaney on May 22, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

    Note: I’m not an expert in dating postcards, so this date is just my best guess. If you have something better, let us know in the comments. See other Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City 1910s Vicksburg 1950s New Albany… Read More ›

• Belhaven Craftsman: N.W. Overstreet House

  By ELMalvaney on May 21, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  Noah Webster Overstreet moved back to his native Mississippi from his architectural training in Urbana, Illinois in 1912 at the age of 24 (see Thomas Rosell’s post “Young N.W. Overstreet“). Newly married to an Illinois native, he set up practice in Jackson,… Read More ›

• Mississippi Unbuilt: Biloxi Lusting for Lustrons

  By Thomas Rosell on May 20, 2015 • ( 12 )

  

  KEESLER TO SPEND $1,000,000 ON 67 NEW HOUSING UNITS Special to the Times Picayune Biloxi, Miss., May 29– Approximately $1 million will be spent on construction of 67 three-bedroom units at Keesler Air Force Base, it was announced by the… Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: Coffeeville School Administration Building

  By Suzassippi on May 19, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Edgar Lucian Malvaney is identified as the architect for the enlargement of the Coffeeville school administration building in 1938 (Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory).  As part of the school complex, it looks like it was used… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-18-2015

  By ELMalvaney on May 18, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Let’s take a look at what’s going on in Mississippi’s preservation world this mid-May as the magnolias blossom, the humidity begins to drip, and the cicadas fill the air with their love-sick hum. In Tupelo, the Daily Journal reports that the National… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: 1960s Meridian

  By ELMalvaney on May 15, 2015 • ( 14 )

  

  Note: I’m not an expert in dating postcards, so this date is just my best guess. If you have something better, let us know in the comments. See other Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City 1910s Vicksburg 1950s New Albany

• MDAH Awards CLG Grants 2015

  By ELMalvaney on May 14, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Per MDAH’s website: Nearly $75K in Preservation Grants Awarded The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has awarded grants totaling more than $74,000 to sixteen preservation projects in Certified Local Government communities across the state. The 2015 CLG grants are… Read More ›

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