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• Name This Place 11.2.1

  By ELMalvaney on April 14, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  After yesterday’s two contest posts, of the Old Country Store at Lorman and the Union Hotel in Meridian, we have the following standings: Victoria Moon Conway: 3 Jack Elliott: 2 Suzassippi: 1 Tom Barnes: 1 Still plenty of game to… Read More ›

• Name This Place 11.1.3

  By ELMalvaney on April 13, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

• Name This Place 11.1.2

  By ELMalvaney on April 13, 2015 • ( 11 )

  

  Read The Rules, and be the first to Name This Place.

• Name This Place XI: Signs

  By ELMalvaney on April 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s been so long since our last Name This Place contest that I’ve had to re-read some of the earlier contests to remind myself of how it works. For those of you who are new around these parts, Name This Places contests… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: 1950s New Albany

  By ELMalvaney on April 10, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

• Hotels in Mississippi, 1938

  By ELMalvaney on April 9, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  I don’t usually publish lists, but this one is interesting enough for research purposes that I thought I would type it up. Although I found this 4-page typed list in an MDAH subject file called “Jackson Hotels and Motels, 1900-1979,”… Read More ›

• Mississippi Mid-Century: Jackson Municipal Airport

  By ELMalvaney on April 8, 2015 • ( 11 )

  

  New Airport Dedication Set Next Wednesday Open House From 9 til 5 Officials and civic leaders of Jackson will proudly dedicate a highly anticipated modern new airport at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 24th. Keyed to the jet age, the outstandingly… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-7-2015

  By ELMalvaney on April 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  From the Coast to Columbus, from Jackson to the Delta and points in between, preservationists get down and dirty in old barns looking for original windows, fight in the legislature for historic tax credits, and pass on pilgrimage traditions to new preservationists. Read all about it in this week’s News Roundup.

• Happy Easter 2015 A.D.

  By ELMalvaney on April 5, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

   

• Mississippi Streets: 1910s Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on April 3, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

• Madisonia: Mississippi’s Lost Greco-Roman Colony

  By ELMalvaney on April 1, 2015 • ( 16 )

  

  Once there was a Greco-Roman city-state named Madisonia, situated in that region where Italy, France and Switzerland meet. It was a city-state of only homeowners, located on lots of half an acre or more with strict covenants, and it was… Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: West End Fire Station

  By Suzassippi on March 31, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  The Biloxi Volunteer Fire Company No. 1, the first fire company for the city, was organized September 3, 1883 (The Daily Picayune, September 6, 1883, p. 1, R. L. Bellande, Biloxi Historical Society).  West End Fire Co. No. 3 was… Read More ›

• Sausage Anyone?

  By Lolly Barnes on March 27, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Preservationists around the state are on the edge of their seats as this session of the Mississippi Legislature draws to a close.  House Bill 155, authored by the Speaker of the House and champion of the state historic tax credit,… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: 1920s Yazoo City

  By ELMalvaney on March 27, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Note: I’m not an expert in dating postcards, so this date is just my best guess. If you have a better guess, let us know in the comments.

• Hattiesburg, Here We Come!

  By Lolly Barnes on March 26, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  Listen Up! Historic Preservation Conference April 22-23, 2015 Oddfellows Gallery, Hattiesburg, Mississippi Hosted by the Mississippi Heritage Trust In many ways, preservation projects are like a puzzle. You need to find the right fit of purpose, financing, incentives and talent…. Read More ›

• Jacksonians: Where is this Apartment Building?

  By Thomas Rosell on March 25, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Jacksonians: Where is this Apartment building? From the 1937 Guide to Better Homes, prepared by American Builder and Building Age. INCOME PRODUCER J. Peyton McKay Apartments Jackson, Miss. FOUR 3-room apartment of modern layout and high efficiency are built into this… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-23-2015

  By ELMalvaney on March 23, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  From the resurrection of the Delta Queen, to National Register listings around the state, and a virtual Frank Lloyd Wright Summit, the MissPres News Roundup is your weekly must-read.

• Lameuse Street Craftsman

  By ELMalvaney on March 20, 2015 • ( 13 )

  

  Yesterday’s Facebook post by the MDAH Historic Preservation Division indicated that the Lameuse Street Historic District in Biloxi has been recommended by the Mississippi National Register Review Board for listing on the National Register. That reminded me that there are… Read More ›

• How Jackson Ready-Mix Made Jax-Lite Blocks

  By ELMalvaney on March 19, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  In addition to the double-page advertisement shown below and the description of the benefits of Jax-Lite concrete blocks reprinted in yesterday’s post, the Jackson Daily News devoted space in its June 13, 1954 issue to a description of the Jackson Ready-Mix… Read More ›

• Jax-Lite: Jackson’s Native Concrete Block

  By ELMalvaney on March 18, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  The recent Mad Mod Eastover tour and the review published here last week introduced me to the Lovelace House and its construction material, a lightweight concrete block known as “Jax-Lite.” I knew I had seen that name somewhere, and when I… Read More ›

• Duncan, Mississippi: Part 4

  By Suzassippi on March 17, 2015 • ( 27 )

  

  Thanks to gstone for the photograph of the Duncan Drug Store, closed since 1965.  Try as I might, I have been unable to locate any information about the store.  I am sure if you are of a similar age some… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-16-2015

  By ELMalvaney on March 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  I know you’re probably exhausted, as I am, from a weekend of revelry in celebration of Pi Day, but alas, it’s time to get down to business. First, a nice story on WLOX about the 1913 Webb School in Bay St. Louis,… Read More ›

• Mississippi by Air: Jackson 1941

  By ELMalvaney on March 13, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Today’s aerial views of Jackson in 1941 come from the C.W. Witbeck Collection at MDAH, conveniently scanned for us and available online on Flickr. Those of you familiar with Jackson will see immediately that Mr. Witbeck took these from high atop the… Read More ›

• Mad Mod Eastover Tour Review

  By ELMalvaney on March 12, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Today’s review of the recent Mad Mod Eastover tour is brought to you by longtime MissPres reader and commenter Neel Reid. ———————————— It’s hard to classify modernism in architecture. Advances in technology and new materials shaped much of the movement,… Read More ›

• Greenville Craftsman: Leavenworth-Wasson-Carroll House

  By ELMalvaney on March 11, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Who knew that a little piece of Gustav Stickley was standing right on S. Washington Street in Greenville?

• New Deal in Mississippi: Vardaman school buildings

  By Suzassippi on March 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s been a bit since we toured any of the New Deal buildings in Mississippi, so I thought it was high time for a road trip to Vardaman–the one and only sweet potato capital of the world.  Unfortunately, up here… Read More ›

• Wilkinson County’s Forest Home Plantation Burns

  By ELMalvaney on March 9, 2015 • ( 20 )

  

  Friday, March 6, one of Wilkinson County’s plantation homes, Forest Hill, also known as Shamrock, burned to the ground. It was reported on several Facebook groups dedicated to the Natchez region, including the Natchez, MS, History group and Rodney Remembering,… Read More ›

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