Preservation in Mississippi

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• A Cool Half Million

  By ELMalvaney on July 23, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  Someone was toying with me tonight. I waited 35 minutes to catch a screenshot of our 500,000th view on the blog, and somehow missed it in about one minute of inattention! Thanks for being a part of this little blog,… Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: Old Batesville Post Office

  By Suzassippi on July 23, 2013 • ( 9 )

  

  The former post office in Batesville is in the town area known as Public Square, and is one of the more imaginative and attractive post office buildings constructed under the New Deal administration.  The slight arch of the recessed windows… Read More ›

• A Sad Loss For Mendenhall

  By Lolly Barnes on July 19, 2013 • ( 38 )

  

  In an inexplicable decision, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees today voted 5-2 to allow the Simpson County School District to demolish the 1938 Mendenhall High School Auditorium. Mayor Steve Womack of Mendenhall set the tone… Read More ›

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: The Hill

  By ELMalvaney on July 18, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VII (1903). “The Hill,” although overgrown and vacant was listed on the National Register in July 1979. You… Read More ›

• Architect Pics: Leon C. Weiss

  By Thomas Rosell on July 17, 2013 • ( 19 )

  

  Leon Charles Weiss was a busy man.  In addition to an independent practice, he was a partner in four other firms throughout his life.  So busy he had to pose for this photograph while catching up with his correspondence.  I… Read More ›

• Documenting the New Deal in Clarksdale: Civic Auditorium

  By Suzassippi on July 16, 2013 • ( 18 )

  

  After taking a few weeks off from my might-never-end quest to document all the New Deal Administration properties in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, I was back on the hunt again this week.  I was intrigued by this building–the Clarksdale Civic… Read More ›

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Ford House

  By ELMalvaney on July 11, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VII (1903). The Ford House One of the most delightful methods of history study is by acquaintance with… Read More ›

• Swimming Pools For Some

  By ELMalvaney on July 10, 2013 • ( 19 )

  

  I’ve recently picked up the book The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South by Andrew W. Kahrl. It’s been a revelation. More than just a history of segregated beaches, the book explains the… Read More ›

• How Many Can You Identify?

  By ELMalvaney on July 9, 2013 • ( 21 )

  

  Before skyscrapers like Vicksburg’s First National Bank and before airplanes, I guess the tallest vantage point to take a picture in Vicksburg was from the Post Office, as seen in the postcard view below. Here’s a little mid-summer pop quiz. First,… Read More ›

• Preservation Under Pressure

  By Lolly Barnes on July 3, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  As we celebrate our nation’s birthday and reflect on the right to free expression that we enjoy as Americans, the precarious future of the 1938 Mendenhall High School Auditorium is foremost in my mind. Despite the fact that this Mississippi… Read More ›

• Fire at the Hinds County Armory

  By ELMalvaney on July 2, 2013 • ( 26 )

  

  WLBT reported a fire at the Hinds County Armory on the Missisisppi State Fairgrounds this evening. Word from the site indicates the fire was put out around 6:45, but if that’s the case, it was going for about an hour.

• Grand Illumination at Vicksburg Military Park

  By ELMalvaney on July 2, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Tomorrow, July 3rd, to mark the 150th anniversary of the surrender of Vicksburg, the Vicksburg National Military Park will hold a Grand Illumination. This is probably a once in a lifetime event, or depending on how long you live, a… Read More ›

• Mississippi by Air: Jackson 1943

  By ELMalvaney on June 28, 2013 • ( 9 )

  

• Deupree’s Historic Homes of Mississippi: Blakely

  By ELMalvaney on June 27, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VII (1903). To Deupree’s image I’ve added photos taken by HABS in 1936 and 1940: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ms0167/. This house… Read More ›

• Mississippi=Chopped Liver?

  By ELMalvaney on June 26, 2013 • ( 22 )

  

  You may recall that our list of 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die arose from my expressed annoyance in a November 2011 post at Mississippi’s exclusion from the door-stop of a book 1001 Places to See Before You Die…. Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-24-2013

  By JRGordon on June 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Summer is officially here – and with it the heat and humidity we in the South love (or is it loathe?) so much. Here’s what’s been going on in preservation since our last roundup. Some of you may have seen… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Quoins

  By Thomas Rosell on June 21, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Time for another MissPres AWOTW!  I gathered up a couple of definitions to help fully define our word this week.  Some of our examples photos come from the MDAH HRI database. The Elements of Style by Stephen Calloway and Elizabeth… Read More ›

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Longwood

  By ELMalvaney on June 20, 2013 • ( 2 )

  Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VII (1903). Longwood Longwood, the home of Sargent S. Prentiss, stood in the center of a noble forest… Read More ›

• Leavell Hall: Another “Dog” of a Building?

  By Suzassippi on June 18, 2013 • ( 17 )

  

  In the quest to document all the PWA-funded buildings on the University of Mississippi campus, here is yet another of the contributions to campus made by the New Deal administration of President Roosevelt.  A few weeks back,  a reader referred… Read More ›

• Medgar Evers Slept Here

  By ELMalvaney on June 12, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  Excerpt from Beckwith v. State of Mississippi (1998 appeal) THE EVIDENCE THE DEATH OF MEDGAR EVERS 3. The last hours of Medgar Evers were recounted by the testimony of his widow, Myrlie. On direct examination, Ms. Evers testified as follows: Q…. Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-10-2013

  By JRGordon on June 10, 2013 • ( 4 )

  While we’re starting our twitter-like news feed on the MissPres page, I’ve been off a couple weeks so we’re due a traditional round-up as well. The biggest news the past couple of weeks have been the municipal elections around the… Read More ›

• Summertime and the Livin’ Is Easy

  By ELMalvaney on June 7, 2013 • ( 9 )

  

  We at MissPres like to keep a strict 5-day a week schedule, but this summer, we’ve all decided to relax a bit and post when we feel like it. We hope you will enjoy reading when we do post but… Read More ›

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Beauvoir

  By ELMalvaney on June 6, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Today’s post is a reprint from Mrs. N.D. Deupree’s “Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. VII (1903). Beauvoir The property in Harrison county, lying along the Gulf coast about half way between Biloxi… Read More ›

• MDAH’s Fred Daniels Photographic Collection Online

  By ELMalvaney on June 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  MDAH recently announced the addition of the Fred Daniels collection to their Flickr photostream. The Daniels family managed a studio in downtown Jackson: The Daniel, Al Fred, Photograph Collection consists of 586 photographs from three studios managed by the Albert… Read More ›

• Vicksburg’s Balfour House, 1863

  By ELMalvaney on June 4, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Emma Balfour, wife of Vicksburg doctor and neighbor of the house that Gen. Pemberton occupied as his headquarters during the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863, kept a valuable diary of her life during the Civil War and especially during the… Read More ›

• MHT Announces New Executive Director

  By ELMalvaney on June 3, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  As you may recall, the Mississippi Heritage Trust’s executive director, David Preziosi, moved on to Texas last fall and MHT announced its open position. It took a while, but I think it was worth the wait: last week MHT announced… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: LaFont Inn, Pascagoula

  By ELMalvaney on May 31, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

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

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