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• Friday Fun: Concrete Block Bingo Sheet

  By Thomas Rosell on February 15, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  The attached sheet is page 415 from Nelson Burbank and Herbert Pfister’s 1968 House Construction Details. When I came across this page I wondered to myself if any of these decorative patterns or blocks had ever actually been used.  Almost… Read More ›

• Help Save the Durant Depot

  By ELMalvaney on February 14, 2013 • ( 12 )

  

  Today’s guest post is by Sharron Cauthen, Chair of the Durant Historic Preservation Commission in Holmes County. Durant Historic Preservation Commission and City of Durant Work To Preserve Durant Depot (Illinois Central RR) This year the Durant Historic Preservation Commission is… Read More ›

• Tornado Damage in Hattiesburg

  By ELMalvaney on February 13, 2013 • ( 8 )

  

  We’ve seen a few pictures of damaged historic buildings in Hattiesburg, and today we’ve got a broader view of the damage, which takes a relatively straight line from I-59 northeast along Hardy Street, clips the corner of USM, and heads… Read More ›

• Early Damage Reports from Hattiesburg

  By ELMalvaney on February 11, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  According to the African American Military History Museum Facebook page, the USO Building that houses the museum and the former Eureka School down the street both sustained heavy roof damage that is now being exacerbated by the rain that’s expected… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 2-11-2013

  By JRGordon on February 11, 2013 • ( 1 )

  For those of you who don’t know – I typically type up these roundups on Sunday as I am able to “schedule” the post for Monday morning.  As of right now, I have only seen REALLY early (and vague) reports… Read More ›

• How Mississippians of Heart Seek to Save an Historic Landmark

  By ELMalvaney on February 7, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  As is our tradition on MissPres, we celebrate the end of our fourth year by returning to the Old Capitol, our touchstone since our first post back in February 2009. Today’s post is long, maybe too long, but I think… Read More ›

• Behind the scenes at Rosedale, Windsor, and Walthall

  By ELMalvaney on February 6, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  On this hump day, a short post to point you to some interesting behind-the-scenes pictures from historic preservation projects going on around the state. If you’re on Facebook, you may want to connect with the MDAH Technical Services page, which… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Monroe County Chancery Building

  By Suzassippi on February 5, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  Monroe County’s Chancery Building, built 1885-87 as a post office and federal building (Mississippi Department of Archives & History/Historic Resources Inventory database), did not make it to the 101 Places in Mississippi to See Before you Die list.  It was… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 2-4-2013

  By JRGordon on February 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Coverage of the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras festivities didn’t keep us from finding a handful of preservation related stories this week. We’ll start in Jackson where the Fondren area was in the news as an example of an area… Read More ›

• Photo Update of the Hub City Lofts

  By Thomas Rosell on February 1, 2013 • ( 7 )

  

  A few weekends back I made a day trip to Hattiesburg to check out the progress made on the adaptive reuse projects of the Carter and Ross buildings.  I had been wanting to check these two projects out in person… Read More ›

• Streets and Numbers and Municipal Identity

  By ELMalvaney on January 31, 2013 • ( 9 )

  

  Have you ever thought about street numbers and how they came to be? If so, check out this article from Preservation in Print’s October 2012 issue, “Addressing Urban Disorder” by Richard Campanella: The number on your door may seem like… Read More ›

• The State Stonemason’s Scandal

  By ELMalvaney on January 30, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Today I’m really excited to be able to reprint an article by David Dockery, Director of the Surface Geology Division of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, that appeared in the DEQ newsletter Environmental News in February 2010. This article really opened my eyes to the… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Leland Post Office Mural

  By Suzassippi on January 29, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  The Leland Post Office mural, “Ginnin’ Cotton” by Stuart Purser, is oil on canvas, mounted on paperboard, and was completed 1940 (Smithsonian American Art Museum).  Purser’s design was the winning submission for Mississippi in the 48-state mural competition.  Purser was… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 1-28-2013

  By JRGordon on January 28, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Can you believe that it’s the last week of January already?  Pretty soon, we’ll be talking about Spring Pilgrimages around the state.  We’ve had a ton of news since our last round up – so away we go. We’re going… Read More ›

• MissPres Word of the Week: Window

  By Thomas Rosell on January 25, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  In January 2012 Malvaney ask us in the post entitled “When You Absolutely Positively Have to Know What’s a Volute?” to share our favorite definition of a volute.  In that spirit I’ll ask y’all to share a definition of the word… Read More ›

• Abandoned Mississippi: Kings Daughter’s Nurses Home, Greenwood

  By ELMalvaney on January 24, 2013 • ( 7 )

  

  I was in Greenwood recently and while there I decided to go check on a hunch I had about a scene in The Help. I don’t actually have a great visual memory, but for some reason, this scene reminded me… Read More ›

• Newspaper Clippings: Old Capitol’s First Restoration

  By ELMalvaney on January 23, 2013 • ( 9 )

  

  Today’s peek back into the newspaper archives reminds us of when the stucco was taken off during the Capitol’s first “restoration,” billed as the “most accurate humanly possible” by the interior designer Earl Hart Miller.

• Former First Christian Church: The Windows of Amory

  By Suzassippi on January 22, 2013 • ( 12 )

  

  Erected in 1926, the former First Christian Church of Amory was designed in an Eclectic/Composite style (Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory database).  The building still retains its 14 foot tin-covered ceiling, and original stained glass.  According… Read More ›

• Martin Luther King, Jr. in Laurel, Mississippi

  By ELMalvaney on January 21, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

• Webster County Courthouse Burns

  By ELMalvaney on January 18, 2013 • ( 17 )

  

  We heard early yesterday that the Webster County Courthouse in the tiny town of Walthall caught fire around 2:30 AM and was not completely under control until 7 o’clock. Tom Freeland at the North Mississippi Commenter posted an update yesterday afternoon. Preservation architect… Read More ›

• Architectural Twins? Eaton and Walthall Schools, Hattiesburg

  By Thomas Rosell on January 17, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  Schools are structures that are often duplicated from one set of plans, as seen in some of Malvaney’s early Architectural Twins posts (January 14, 2010 & July 14, 2010). The school board of Hattiesburg was no different when they hired… Read More ›

• Shelby Foote on Mount Holly

  By ELMalvaney on January 16, 2013 • ( 10 )

  

  I recently read through the Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy (1997) and came across this interesting little tidbit from Shelby Foote about Mount Holly south of Greenville, which had been owned by his grandfather after the Civil War:… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Houston Post Office Mural

  By Suzassippi on January 15, 2013 • ( 15 )

  

  Of the twenty-eight works of art placed in Mississippi’s federal buildings under the New Deal federal art programs, only three were created by Mississippi artists–a fact not uncontested by Mississippians (Patti Carr Black, 1998, Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980).  Byron Burford,… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 1-14-2013

  By JRGordon on January 14, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  News is still a bit slow in the new year – but we still uncovered enough for our second round up of the year. Starting this week down in Natchez where The Democrat covered the latest push for an oil… Read More ›

• MissPres Word of the Week: Pigeonhole Corner

  By Thomas Rosell on January 11, 2013 • ( 24 )

  

  “…working on catching up on my photo organization, and found this picture of a corner on Murrah Hall at Millsaps. Don’t know the term for it although I probably should…”

• Mississippi by Air: Piney Woods School

  By ELMalvaney on January 10, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

• Architectural Twins: Natchez’s Legitimate Siblings?

  By Thomas Rosell on January 9, 2013 • ( 15 )

  

  In my post “Happy Hanukkah Y’all” one of the buildings featured was the Gerard Brandon V house designed by the firm Weiss, Dreyfous, & Seiferth. It’s a handsome house that I had seen before but never really studied before writing… Read More ›

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