Preservation in Mississippi

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• New Capitol Crowded, AG Camps in Lt. Gov’s Office

  By ELMalvaney on April 24, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Whenever a large new building is built, or we move into a huge new house, two or three times bigger than we have ever had, there’s a period of delusion in which we can’t see how we will ever fill… Read More ›

• Dedicated to the People: Natchez-Vidalia Bridge

  By Suzassippi on April 23, 2013 • ( 10 )

  

  On making my first trip to Natchez several years ago, I was curious as to why there was a circular “park” just before one crossed the Mississippi bridge to Vidalia.  It is next to the tourist information building, and I… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-22-2013

  By JRGordon on April 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Just because I took a week off from doing a roundup doesn’t mean that the news took a break.  Events are still on the calendar – and I hope that in the next round up we get to share a… Read More ›

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Concord

  By ELMalvaney on April 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. VI (1902). Concord, the old residence of the Spanish governors, was situated about three miles east of the… Read More ›

• Presentations from Preservation in Economic Development Conference

  By Thomas Rosell on April 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  While not breaking news, I learned this week that shortly after the April 2012 Power of Preservation in Economic Development Conference, the Mississippi Heritage Trust made available on their website several of the presentations given at that conference in Ocean… Read More ›

• Natchez City Auditorium: Another New Deal building still benefitting Mississippi citizens

  By Suzassippi on April 16, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  Natchez’ 1938-39 auditorium was a product of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, Project number 1350 in Mississippi (Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory database).  Its “broad, hexastyle pedimented Doric portico” (which is an architectural term… Read More ›

• Oxfordtown, Oxfordtown . . .

  By ELMalvaney on April 15, 2013 • ( 19 )

  

  We don’t have a subscription to the digital Oxford Eagle edition, but our Oxford friends have been rumbling recently about a preservation issue that’s been in the news. The controversy sprang from a demolition request for an 1890 Queen Anne… Read More ›

• “Meet Modern Jackson” Bus Tour

  By ELMalvaney on April 12, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  This event popped up on the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Facebook page yesterday, and I’ve also seen it on posters around Jackson this week: Jackson became the hub of Modernist architecture in the state when its population exploded… Read More ›

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Monmouth

  By ELMalvaney on April 11, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  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. VI (1902). Monmouth Monmouth, the home of General John A. Quitman, is now owned by his daughter, Mrs…. Read More ›

• 2013 National Trust Planning Grants Available for Main Street Communities

  By Thomas Rosell on April 10, 2013 • ( 1 )

  Good planning before a bricks and mortar preservation project will save time and money and usually result in a better quality project.  The grants below are for this planning phase.  If your town is a Main Street community you might be interested… Read More ›

• Magnolia: Three New Deal Murals in One Post Office

  By Suzassippi on April 9, 2013 • ( 8 )

  

  This week, we profile the seventh of the 32 post office in Mississippi which were built, and decorated with “art for the people” under the auspices of the New Deal Administration.  Magnolia boasts three murals (“… one of a handful… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-8-2013

  By JRGordon on April 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  We’re finally getting more sunny days – and warmer temps – which should encourage more venturing to see our favorite places.  While you all are pondering your Spring excursions, here’s the latest news. Starting in the small town of Houston… Read More ›

• Why? Because It’s Saturday!

  By ELMalvaney on April 6, 2013 • ( 9 )

  

  Put Porterfield back together again, and you don’t even have to clear off the dining room table to do it! Online jigsaw puzzles from JigsawSite.com

• Looking Back at Tupelo April 5, 1936

  By ELMalvaney on April 5, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

• NHL Photo Contest 2013

  By ELMalvaney on April 5, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s that time of year for the annual National Historic Landmark Contest! If you’re going to a Pilgrimage, or if you’re just hanging around Jackson, you have the chance to take a winning shot of an NHL. So far, we… Read More ›

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Porterfield, Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on April 4, 2013 • ( 10 )

  

  This paper, so far devoted to descriptions of plantation and suburban homes, will now give a story of a city home, the “Porterfield” home of Vicksburg. It is a large, square-built brick house, three stories high, with long wide halls, three in number, two rooms on each side of the hall on each floor except the first; this has two on the right of the entrance and one, the banqueting hail, on the left, a room 24 by 42 feet, with ceiling 18 feet in height.

• An unfinished church on my list of places to see

  By ELMalvaney on April 3, 2013 • ( 3 )

  Maybe you saw this feature on 60 Minutes a few weeks ago, but even so you might want to watch it again. Gaudi’s amazing, weird, symbolic, genius Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona is the longest architectural project currently under construction,… Read More ›

• Life in the Mississippi Cotton Belt

  By Suzassippi on April 2, 2013 • ( 15 )

  

  Auriel Bessemer’s 1939 mural is one of a number of Mississippi post office murals, commissioned through the Treasury Department’s Section of Fine Arts program, that depicted the cotton industry in the state.  Bessemer, daughter of Hungarian immigrants, was from Grand… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-1-2013

  By JRGordon on April 1, 2013 • ( 4 )

  No fooling – it’s all good news today! First there was a story about downtown revitalization in Pontotoc.  Three property owners have recently invested in downtown buildings – including one couple who even turned an historic gas station into their… Read More ›

• Happy Easter 2013 A.D.

  By ELMalvaney on March 31, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• Munsell v. The Color Orange

  By Thomas Rosell on March 30, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  First developed at the turn of the 20th century, Munsell color tools are used for producing physical color standards across a wide range of industries and disciplines to communicate color easily and accurately.  Often Preservationist and Conservators use the Munsell Color… Read More ›

• Merci Train Car Update

  By JRGordon on March 29, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  Back in June 2011 we shared some pictures of the French 40 & 8 (aka the Merci) Car being moved from behind the War Memorial & Old Capitol to its new home nearby, beside the GM&O Depot. Earlier this week,… Read More ›

• Deupree’s Historic Homes: Mount Salus

  By ELMalvaney on March 28, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  The building is fashioned after the style of the old English manor-houses: square built, with wide windows, broad, heavy doors, and solid floors. The doors bear the marks of spurs and bayonets made by Grant’s soldiers as they tried in vain to force their way into stores and mansion, when on the raid from Vicksburg to Jackson in 1863.

• Construction at the Governor’s Mansion

  By ELMalvaney on March 27, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  According to the MDAH website, the Governor’s Mansion (1839-42, William Nichols) will be closed to tours from April through August as it undergoes some needed infrastrastructure upgrades. The Mississippi Governor’s Mansion is in the midst of a project to help… Read More ›

• Crystal Springs Tomatropolis: Henry La Cagnina’s Harvest

  By Suzassippi on March 26, 2013 • ( 13 )

  

  Crystal Springs, Mississippi was once known as the “Tomatropolis of the World” (and had a big tomato-shaped sign to prove it) and was the largest shipper of tomatoes in the United States (LaTricia M. Nelson-Easley. 2007. Images of America: Copiah… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-25-2013

  By JRGordon on March 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  March is flying by – even if we have to deal with some winter-like temps again. Just a handful of stories from this week, but all good news for a chilly morning: Starting in Natchez where good reports on the… Read More ›

• Apply to be the Best of the South!

  By ELMalvaney on March 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  If you’re an architect, contractor, or historic building owner, you might be interested in the following call for nominations from the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians, which gives out an award to the best historic preservation project in the Southeast… Read More ›

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