Preservation in Mississippi

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• Box, Slip, Jib, & Pocket windows

  By Thomas Rosell on April 2, 2014 • ( 13 )

  

  A topic I found very interesting came up recently in the Vernacular Architecture Forum list-serve. The discussion was about a Box Head style window. The Dictionary of Architecture and Construction defines a box-head window as the following: Box Head Window:-… Read More ›

• Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974–Gulf Coast and Hattiesburg

  By ELMalvaney on March 28, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  This post is the sixth in a series reprinting the Mississippi Pilgrimage booklet of 1974. See also  Natchez Holly Springs Columbus Woodville

• Restoring Rural Mississippi – Clay County Agricultural High School in Pheba

  By W. White on March 26, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  For most of Mississippi’s history the state has been very rural in the sense that nearly all Mississippians lived in the countryside or in small towns not in cities. For every Vicksburg, Natchez, and Columbus were twenty or more small… Read More ›

• Preservation Fail Corrected: Eugene P. Booze House

  By Suzassippi on March 25, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  The Eugene P. Booze house, a “two-story American foursquare” with Colonial Revival detailing provides an excellent illustration of preservation fail, and thankfully, correction on inauthentic renovation (Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory).  The c. 1910 home in… Read More ›

• Three More Spring Events for Mississippi Preservationists

  By ELMalvaney on March 24, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  If you’re looking for somewhere to go other than one of the pilgrimages this Spring, maybe you’ll be interested in one of these events, all of which are dedicated to helping raise funds and awareness for a Mississippi historic building. Cotesworth,… Read More ›

• Did Grant sleep here?

  By Suzassippi on March 24, 2014 • ( 6 )

  From up Oxford way, the Daily Journal reported February 5 that “site of a potential jail expansion may have unappreciated importance to both Civil War history and Jewish history.” Asher Reese has requested the property be designated for a Jewish… Read More ›

• Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974–Columbus

  By ELMalvaney on March 21, 2014 • ( 1 )

  This post is the fourth in a series reprinting the Mississippi Pilgrimage booklet of 1974. See also  Natchez Holly Springs    

• Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974–Woodville

  By ELMalvaney on March 21, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  This post is the fifth in a series reprinting the Mississippi Pilgrimage booklet of 1974. See also  Natchez Holly Springs Columbus

• Victory Lap!

  By Lolly Barnes on March 20, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  It is tremendously rewarding to see a historic building that was once listed as endangered come back from neglect and decay.  Those of you who live in the Delta have been watching the progress on the restoration of the Taborian Hospital with… Read More ›

• Happy 164th Birthday to Archt. Theodore C. Link!

  By Thomas Rosell on March 19, 2014 • ( 16 )

  

  Monday March 17th, 2014 was the 164th birthday of Mississippi’s New Capitol architect, Theodore C. Link. The biographical portrait that follows was published when Mr. Link was 56 years old and surprisingly does not mention his work in Mississippi. Theodore… Read More ›

• Around the Mississippi Blogosphere

  By Suzassippi on March 18, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  It’s been a while since MissPres toured the local blogs to see what is happening in the state, so since I am on travel delay for the time being, I thought a virtual trip to see what’s going on might… Read More ›

• Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974–Holly Springs

  By ELMalvaney on March 14, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  This post is the third in a series reprinting the Mississippi Pilgrimage booklet of 1974.

• Crisis Averted?

  By Lolly Barnes on March 13, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Update:  Crisis Averted! The Mississippi State Historic Tax Credit had been reauthorized through December 31, 2017.  Please be sure to thank your state elected officials for giving us this tremendously effective tool to make historic preservation happen in Mississippi. Historic preservationists had… Read More ›

• Mississippi Unbuilt: Alternative appearances for two lost landmarks

  By Thomas Rosell on March 12, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  I enjoy viewing architectural renderings of buildings.  They often show a structure as its designer intended and depict the building at its peak of glory, though often the reality of a situation sets in and prevents that pinnacle design from… Read More ›

• Preservation Fail: Beta Theta Pi House

  By Suzassippi on March 11, 2014 • ( 14 )

  

  There is an interesting (sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, but generally always disastrous) site called Preservation Fail that I have been following for a while.  Apparently, no geographic area holds dibs on preservation failures, and every time I would see one… Read More ›

• Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974–Natchez

  By ELMalvaney on March 7, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  This post is the second in a series reprinting the Mississippi Pilgrimage booklet of 1974. See also  Holly Springs Columbus Woodville Hattiesburg and Gulf Coast Vicksburg Oxford Jackson and Raymond Meridian Carrollton and Sardis

• Preservation Is Always In Style

  By Lolly Barnes on March 6, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  On a recent trip to Jackson, I was introduced to the wacky and wonderful world of CHANE T-shirts. Not being from that part of the state, I don’t understand some of the slogans (Brandon versus Pearl?), but the preservation of… Read More ›

• The NYA in Mississippi: Jeff Davis Vocational Building

  By Suzassippi on March 4, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  As we have chronicled before, the National Youth Administration, one of the New Deal Administration programs from the 1930s, constructed some 66 documented and/or conjectured administration, classroom, gymnasium, home economics, shop/band hall and vocational buildings, along with several superintendent and… Read More ›

• Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974

  By ELMalvaney on February 28, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Recently I acquired a booklet called “Mississippi Pilgrimage 1974” which gives good coverage to all the pilgrimages going on in the state in the Spring of 1974. Since it’s pilgrimage time, I thought it would be good Friday fun to… Read More ›

• Free to a Good Home

  By Lolly Barnes on February 27, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

    Wanted: Preservation-minded person(s) to give a piece of Pascagoula history a home. Guaranteed to provide happy new owner many fun hours of hammering, sawing, scraping and painting. Happy ghosts of various Delmas family members may come along for the… Read More ›

• Biloxi’s White House Hotel Reborn

  By Thomas Rosell on February 26, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  In a story similar to that of the King Edward Hotel in Jackson, after almost thirty years of vacancy a Biloxi landmark will be restored.  On February 17 WLOX reported that according to its developers the White House Hotel is… Read More ›

• For Sale: Gulfport Historic Post Office

  By Suzassippi on February 25, 2014 • ( 13 )

  

  Back on June 15, 2011, Malvaney noted that the days of the impressive and historic Gulfport Post Office were numbered.  You heard that right: in 2011/2012, 43 historic post offices were sold or put on the market, including this beauty… Read More ›

• Pilgrimage Time Comes Around

  By ELMalvaney on February 24, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  My Japanese magnolia is about to bloom and the daffodils have started to pop out, which means its time to start planning which of the many Spring pilgrimages to attend this year. In the case of Natchez, which begins next… Read More ›

• Road Trip!

  By Lolly Barnes on February 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Ever dreamed of exploring America’s rich architectural heritage with a group of fun, like-minded preservationists?  It is your lucky day!  The Historic Natchez Foundation is offering a six day trip to the Brandywine River Valley from May 13-18.  As a… Read More ›

• Architect Pics: Thomas Sully

  By Thomas Rosell on February 19, 2014 • ( 17 )

  

  Not long ago the Tulane University’s Southeastern Architectural Archive blog announced the recent compilation of the finding aid for their collection of documents from the office of Mississippi City born architect Thomas Sully. “The Southeastern Architectural Archive recently finalized the… Read More ›

• Sardis Home Economics Building: Could it be a New Deal Building?

  By Suzassippi on February 18, 2014 • ( 12 )

  

  The former home economics building in Sardis–our last visit to the Sardis School Complex–was constructed in 1935 (Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database).  Unfortunately, there is no other information about the building that I can locate… Read More ›

• Article Round Up from last week’s Architectural Record

  By Thomas Rosell on February 16, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  In my email inbox I received the weekly email from Architectural Record. I was intrigued with this weeks email because almost all of the articles had a preservation slant.  While none of them directly relate to Mississippi, I thought they… Read More ›

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