Preservation in Mississippi

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• Looking Back Katrina’s 9th Anniversary: Biloxi & Gulfport

  By Thomas Rosell on August 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In recognition of the 9th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week we feature some images from the Mississippi Heritage Trust Hurricane Katrina page along with images uploaded to the MDAH HRI database.  These files relate to the coastal towns in the month… Read More ›

• Looking Back Katrina’s 9th Anniversary: Sullivan Charnley Historic District

  By Thomas Rosell on August 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In recognition of the 9th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week we feature some images from the Mississippi Heritage Trust Hurricane Katrina page along with images uploaded to the MDAH HRI database.  These files relate to the coastal towns in the month… Read More ›

• Looking Back Katrina’s 9th Anniversary: Pascagoula & Ocean Springs

  By Thomas Rosell on August 25, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In recognition of the 9th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week we feature some images from the Mississippi Heritage Trust Hurricane Katrina page along with images uploaded to the MDAH HRI database.  These files relate to the coastal towns in the months… Read More ›

• Listen Up! Student Art Competition-Forgotten Academy by Abigail Wippel

  By Lolly Barnes on August 21, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Forgotten Academy by Abigail Wippel, Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, Columbus This drawing shows what Elizabeth Female Academy looks like now and what it would have looked like during its use in the 1800s.  

• Architectural Siblings? Hotels Tupelo and Pinehurst

  By Thomas Rosell on August 20, 2014 • ( 8 )

  

  I recently was perusing the Boston Public Library’s Tichnor Brothers Collection.  This collection contains approximately 25,000 office proofs of postcards of the United States published by the Boston firm Tichnor Brothers Inc.  These are touristy color postcards dated circa 1930-1945.  There are… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Former Union County Training School

  By Suzassippi on August 19, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Although the Union County Training School for African Americans got its start in 1912, when the New Albany School Board purchased the site, the school operated from the former Baker home.  That building burned in 1943.  The old gymnasium, constructed… Read More ›

• 45th Anniversary of Hurricane Camille

  By Thomas Rosell on August 18, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Hurricane Camille high watermark was documented with a plaque by Glenn Swetman on the front steps of his West Biloxi home c.1970. Hurricane Katrina would bring approximately five more feet of water enough to have about two feet of water into the house. In their estate the Swetmans left the structure to the City of Biloxi. Since then the building has housed the George Ohr Pottery Museum and the Hurricane Katrina office of MDAH.

• Remembering Hurricane Camille

  By Thomas Rosell on August 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Preservation in Mississippi:
  Tower of the Church of the Redeemer, Biloxi, after Hurricane Camille From the Biloxi Daily Herald, “Landmarks Lost During Camille,” by Emily Germanis, August 16, 1970: “Historically speaking, the Mississippi Gulf Coast received a great…

• Roadside Mississippi: The Varsity, Belzoni

  By ELMalvaney on August 15, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  I notice from this picture that the formal name of Belzoni’s great burger and malt shop is “The Varsity Restaurant,” but like all icons, it’s real name is simply “The Varsity.”

• Listen Up! Student Art Competition-Aerial View of the Capitol by Alex Duckworth

  By Lolly Barnes on August 14, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Aerial View of the Capitol by Alex Duckworth, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Jackson The Capitol Building is the source of Mississippi’s government. Along with its importance of government, the Capitol’s architecture was very intricate in its Beaux-Arts architectural style.

• Let’s Give Prospect Hill One Last Boost

  By ELMalvaney on August 12, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  After languishing for years and heading for ruin before the Archaeological Conservancy bought it a few years ago, things have been moving fast at Prospect Hill in the last month. If you’re on Facebook, you probably saw that an anonymous… Read More ›

• Listen Up! Student Art Competition-Temple Heights by Nicholas Elder

  By Lolly Barnes on August 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Temple Heights by Nicholas Elder, Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science As I walk up the stairs from the street I crane my neck to admire the towering house as it radiates in the setting sun. Candles and torches are… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: The Avon, Von, Bon Theatre in Hernando

  By Suzassippi on August 6, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

    The circa 1940 theatre started out as the Avon according to Amy Chatham of Friends of Von Theatre (Henry Bailey, “Hernando chasing funds for skate park, will chill at Front Porch Jubilee,” Commercial Appeal, March 10, 2014). …the ‘A’… Read More ›

• Pretty as a Picture

  By Lolly Barnes on August 1, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Preservationists rejoice! The White House Hotel in Biloxi reopened its doors last night.  

• Houlka School Burns

  By ELMalvaney on July 31, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  Sad news today from Houlka, where their historic 1930s school, under renovation with a grant from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, caught fire on Wednesday from a contractor’s spark (this is not an uncommon story–remember the Hinds County Armory?) and… Read More ›

• More Mid-Century Medical

  By Thomas Rosell on July 30, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  The previous Mid-Century Medical post was about the little building that Is.  It is not a big bold building with a prominent location.  It is not a building that will likely ever have a plaque in front that reads “On… Read More ›

• Roadside Mississippi: Kevin’s Korner, Pascagoula

  By ELMalvaney on July 25, 2014 • ( 10 )

  

  Just down the street from Edd’s in Pascagoula is Kevin’s Korner. I love angled windows, and I love Kevin’s shakes, burgers, and fries!

• OK! Time for PK!

  By Lolly Barnes on July 24, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  If you were not able to make it to Tupelo for all the fun and festivities last month, I have a treat in store for you.  Allen Pegues with Premium Productions just happened to stop by for PechaKucha night, so… Read More ›

• Mid-Century Medical

  By Thomas Rosell on July 23, 2014 • ( 10 )

  

  In Jackson just south of the Veterans Memorial Stadium is a group of buildings dubbed University Plaza that were developed c.1954 when University of Mississippi opened its medical school on the other side of North State Street.  While some of… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Coldwater School

  By Suzassippi on July 22, 2014 • ( 8 )

  

  The Coldwater School may not look like much on a gray and raining day, but a closer inspection reveals some nice details.  The classroom and auditorium buildings, completed in 1944, were attributed to Edgar Lucian Malvaney (Mississippi Department of Archives… Read More ›

• New National Register Properties

  By ELMalvaney on July 21, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Five Mississippi properties have recently been listed to the National Register of Historic Places.

• School is Out-For the Count?

  By Lolly Barnes on July 17, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  The Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees will consider two requests for demolition of Mississippi Landmarks at their Friday, July 18 meeting: Guntown School in Lee County, and Eupora School Gymnasium in Webster County.

• Beauty and the Beach

  By Lolly Barnes on July 17, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  The White House Hotel in Biloxi is a bustle of activity these days, as workers plant flowers, lay grass, install railings around the pool and put the finishing touches on the Grand Lady of the Gulf as she gets ready… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi Road Trip: DeSoto County Courthouse

  By Suzassippi on July 15, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  The circa 1941 (dates range from 1940-1942 depending on source) Neoclassical courthouse sitting in the middle of Hernando town square was designed by Mississippi’s R. W. Naef and built by Fred B. Johnson.

• Roadside Mississippi: B&B Kitchen, Yazoo City

  By ELMalvaney on July 11, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  I’m not sure if B&Bs Kitchen has ever been a burger and shake kind of place, but it looks like it could have been, and I couldn’t resist its zigzag roof and cheerful red and white stripes.

• Burger and Shake Please!

  By Lolly Barnes on July 10, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  After a brief hiatus, Jackson’s classic soda fountain Brent’s Drugs is back and better than ever. We certainly are lucky to have preservationists like Brad Reeves and his partners Johnathan Shull and Amanda and Nathan Wells to carry the torch…. Read More ›

• A Nation in Motion: Robertshaw Co. Plantation at Heathman

  By Thomas Rosell on July 9, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  The Robertshaw Company Plantation at Heathman, between Leland and Indianola was the site on September 1924 of the fist commercial airplane crop dusting for insect control in the United States.

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