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• MissPres News Roundup 1-26-2015

  By ELMalvaney on January 26, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  You know what a two-week gap in news roundups means? Lots of catch-up! ———————————————— The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation recently gave a $2.5 million gift to the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, now under construction… Read More ›

• Go Back to Architecture School (for a day or two)

  By ELMalvaney on January 22, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Millsaps College has announced its newest round of Community Enrichment classes, and there’s a full slate of topics of interest to MissPresers. Pick one or more and head back to school for a few days–what else do you have to… Read More ›

• Update on Mississippi Landmark Status for the Meridian Police Department

  By Lolly Barnes on January 21, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Although the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees voted to place the Meridian Police Station under consideration for Mississippi Landmark status in October 2014, it did not bring up the request to designate the Meridian Police Department as a Mississippi Landmark… Read More ›

• Smokestacks: The nitty gritty or work of art?

  By Suzassippi on January 20, 2015 • ( 11 )

  

  Once soaring symbols of the Industrial Revolution and material progress, smokestacks later became the poster kids of environmental degradation.  Today, legions of artists, urban planners and preservationists are seeking to change those carbon chugging chimneys from sooty to beauty. (Smokin’… Read More ›

• MLK in Jackson, 1963

  By ELMalvaney on January 19, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  “The first “legal” civil rights march in the history of Mississippi. It was clear we were going to march come Hell, Blood, or Mississippi — and we did: 6,000 of us.” Question for Jacksonians–what street is this?

• Going Inside: MSU’s Student Union, c.1960

  By ELMalvaney on January 16, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

• Twin Domes: Arkansas’ State House Commissioners Visit Mississippi

  By ELMalvaney on January 15, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Well, it’s been a long time since we heard of our old friend George Mann, the architect of the Arkansas Capitol, and his nemesis, George Donaghey, so when I spied this little article in the Daily Clarion Ledger, May 21, 1903,… Read More ›

• Architect Pics: Sidney V. Stratton

  By Thomas Rosell on January 14, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  With winter’s cold weather upon us it might be fun to think of a warm weather vacation. On the other hand, imagine escaping the August heat of Mississippi and traveling to Atlantic City, New Jersey.  That’s what amateur photographers and brothers Robert Livingston… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 1-12-2015

  By ELMalvaney on January 12, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  How about a little news roundup to get us back into the news in this New Year? There’s hopeful news out of Pascagoula, where the stunning Modern/Googie-style high-rise building built as the Pascagoula-Moss Point and later occupied by Hancock Bank… Read More ›

• Going Inside: Lefleur’s Restaurant, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on January 9, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  On Wednesday, MissPres set a new record for most views in a day, 2,383, and most of that was on the strength of one post, Tom Barnes’ Lost Mississippi: Jacksonian Highway Hotel/Lefleurs Restaurant, originally published in May 2011. That post… Read More ›

• Old News: No-bid State Contracts

  By ELMalvaney on January 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  File this nugget from Jackson’s Northside Reporter, Sept. 21, 1961, in the “Nothing New Under the Sun” file and cross-reference in the “Shocked! Shocked!” folder. This editorial was presumably written by Hazel Brannon Smith, who published the Reporter in those days,… Read More ›

• Top 11 MissPres Posts Written in 2014

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

  

  Ladies and Gentlemen, skipping the fanfare here are your Top 11 MissPres Posts written in 2014. See if your favorite story made the list…

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: First 2015 road trip to 101 Places–Elvis Presley birthplace

  By Suzassippi on January 6, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  We haven’t visited a 101 place in a while, so it seemed fitting to jump into the new year with a stop off at one of the most famous of the 101 Places in Mississippi to See Before You Die–the… Read More ›

• 2014 Annual Report

  By ELMalvaney on January 5, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  This annual report didn’t come out promptly on January 1 as I used to insist on doing, but eh, I’m older and wiser now and there was too much football watching and napping to do this holiday weekend to be… Read More ›

• National Register 2014: Historic Districts

  By ELMalvaney on January 2, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  As you know, National Register listings can be either individual places, as shown in Wednesday’s post, or larger groups of buildings known as historic districts. Historic districts can be as small as a handful of houses in a rural community or… Read More ›

• National Register 2014: Individual Listings

  By ELMalvaney on December 31, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  I know yesterday I promised a post about the buildings that were proposed but not approved for Mississippi Landmark designation, but I’m still working on some background research about that subject, which is more complex than transparent, so instead we’ll… Read More ›

• Mississippi Landmarks 2014

  By ELMalvaney on December 30, 2014 • ( 10 )

  

  Today’s end-of-year list is of all the buildings that the Mississippi Department of Archives and History designated as Mississippi Landmarks. Often confused with the National Register, which is administered by the National Park Service, the Mississippi Landmark designation is completely under the control of the MDAH Board of Trustees, and it is the stronger designation because it gives MDAH the authority to review any proposed alterations to the landmark, including demolition.

• Auld Lang Syne: Friends We Lost in 2014

  By ELMalvaney on December 29, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  It’s time to start our traditional MissPres end-of-year lists for 2014 and as usual, we begin with a sad list of lost historic buildings. Some of these have gotten attention through the year, some haven’t, but I think it’s important… Read More ›

• A Merry MissPres Christmas 2014

  By Thomas Rosell on December 25, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Merry Christmas from Preservation in Mississippi

• Happy Hanukkah Y’all! 2014

  By Thomas Rosell on December 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  A holiday that is celebrated with fried food?  What Mississippian wouldn’t like that? Tonight (really Dec. 23, but I pressed the “Publish” button too soon) will be the eighth night of Hanukkah.  MissPres is marking the occasion with photos of the Congregation Beth Israel… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 12-22-2014

  By ELMalvaney on December 22, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  One happy story for this week’s Christmas reading. Clarion-Ledger writer Sherry Lucas reported this weekend that the Merrill-Maley House, built around 1910, on Jackson’s N. State Street finally has a new owner after years of standing vacant. Left in the middle… Read More ›

• Modern Meridian Tour 12.13.14

  By Thomas Rosell on December 19, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  If you were not able to make it to the Modern Meridian Tour last Saturday, you really missed out on a special opportunity to see some places not generally open to the public. The morning started in the Crestwood Elementary… Read More ›

• Chris Risher: Colonial Revivalist?

  By ELMalvaney on December 18, 2014 • ( 20 )

  

  I’ve often admired this little brick commercial building on Old Canton Road in Jackson, just south of Highland Village for its use of traditional motifs like the brick veneer, columned gallery, pilastered door surround, and other thoughtful details in what is clearly a 1960s or 1970s building.

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi Church Tour: Please sign the visitor’s card

  By Suzassippi on December 16, 2014 • ( 15 )

  

  In her Historic Churches of Mississippi (Sherry Pace, with Richard J. Cawthon, 2007, University Press of Mississippi), Pace takes us on a tour of churches throughout the state. Cawthon’s Lost Churches of Mississippi (2010, University Press of Mississippi) added the… Read More ›

• Yes Virginia, there is hope for the Meridian Police Department

  By Lolly Barnes on December 11, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  OK preservationists, finish up those letters to Santa and get your comments in to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in support of Mississippi Landmark status for the Meridian Police Department.  The salient facts: The building is a watershed of… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Canted Corner Entrances

  By Suzassippi on December 9, 2014 • ( 36 )

  

  I adore corner entrances, aka canted, beveled, angled.  Something about them does, always has, always will, appeal to me.  Quick, pop quiz: Where are the two entrances featured above?  It’s nearing the end of the year, so here is a… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 12-8-2014

  By ELMalvaney on December 8, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Modernism tour in Meridian, Holiday Home tour in Leland, county demolitions in Vicksburg, a plea to save the Natchez bluff, and a mannequin named Paulette who greets visitors from her porch in Carrollton.

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