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• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Amory Post Office Mural

  By Suzassippi on January 8, 2013 • ( 10 )

  

  During the Great Depression, murals were commissioned for federal, state, and local buildings by the federal government in what has been called …the most innovative and comprehensive program for government patronage in American history. (Parks & Markowitz, 1984, p. 5, as… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 1-7-2013

  By JRGordon on January 7, 2013 • ( 1 )

  Not a lot of news since our last round-up of 2012 – well not a lot of preservation news anyway.  Here are a couple of stories I did come across to start your new year. Up in Tupelo, we had… Read More ›

• Sam Kaye, noted architect/preservationist, dead at 72

  By ELMalvaney on January 3, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  Originally posted on Local History Announcements:
  The Commercial Dispatch By: Carmen K. Sisson January 3, 2013 Sam Kaye Sam Kaye, noted as one of the state’s leading historic preservationists, died Tuesday, leaving a legacy that his friends and colleagues say…

• Mississippi’s Connection to the New York Public Library

  By ELMalvaney on January 3, 2013 • ( 8 )

  

  Before we get back to our regular programming next week, I thought I might catch up with a few interesting tidbits I’ve come across in my news reading over the holidays. If you’re a new reader, you might not catch… Read More ›

• 2012 in review

  By ELMalvaney on January 2, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  As they did last year, WordPress.com, which hosts this and millions of other blogs, helpfully put together a 2012 annual report. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 170,000 times in 2012…. Read More ›

• National Register Historic Districts 2012

  By ELMalvaney on January 1, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  As you know, National Register listings can be either individual places, as shown in yesterday’s post, or larger groupings of buildings known as historic districts. Historic districts can be as small as a handful of houses in a rural community… Read More ›

• National Register Listings (Individual) 2012

  By ELMalvaney on December 31, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  The National Park Service oversees the National Register of Historic Places, the most popular tool nationally for recognizing historic properties. According to the NPS: The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy… Read More ›

• Auld Lang Syne: Mississippi Places Lost in 2012

  By ELMalvaney on December 29, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  We lost some very old friends this year and some friends we hardly had a chance to meet. The list is shorter than last year’s, but still contains some significant places that we will no longer have around. As usual,… Read More ›

• Historic Buildings in Mobile Damaged in Christmas Tornadoes

  By ELMalvaney on December 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Several of Mobile, Alabama’s historic buildings were damaged in the tornadoes that swept through in the nasty weather on Christmas Day, including Murphy High School, Springhill Avenue Temple, and Trinity Episcopal Church. Keep up with updates at al.com.

• 2012 MissPres AWOTW Roundup

  By Thomas Rosell on December 28, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  Believe it or not we’ve made it through the entire alphabet.  With 26 terms, and 38 words containing 92 syllables, we touched on 100 structures in 43 towns in 32 Mississippi counties.  I skipped over having a AWOTW for the letter X since… Read More ›

• Mississippi Landmarks 2012

  By ELMalvaney on December 27, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  In the Interregnum between Christmas and New Year’s we traditionally take time to list the year’s accomplishments in preservation, as well as our losses. Our scheduling is a little off this year due to the timing of Christmas early in… Read More ›

• Historic House Museums Struggling?

  By ELMalvaney on December 26, 2012 • ( 12 )

  According to the Washington Post’s “Struggling to attract visitors, historic houses may face day of reckoning,” history sites such as Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg, and Stratford Hall are struggling amidst long-term attendance declines. This is a topic we’ve been covering here on… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 12-21-12

  By JRGordon on December 21, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Yes – it’s Friday and we’re doing a news roundup.  No – the world did not end. With the holidays and our annual “Year in Review” posts over the next week or so, we figured we’d do one last roundup… Read More ›

• LEGO Jackson, LEGO Bailey Junior High

  By ELMalvaney on December 20, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  I missed the opening event for this year’s LEGO Jackson on December 8, but I made sure to head over to the Arts Center of Mississippi, where the Mississippi Museum of Art used to hold court before moving to their… Read More ›

• Mississippi’s Eagle

  By ELMalvaney on December 19, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  As a preface to this post, you might want to read an earlier post on the USS Mississippi figurehead and the new USS Mississippi submarine: USS Mississippi Past and Present.” If you’ve had occasion to wander around the New Capitol… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Rowan Oak

  By Suzassippi on December 18, 2012 • ( 12 )

  

  Rowan Oak, the home of William Faulkner from 1930 until his death in 1962, ranked number 1 on the Oxford-Holly Springs regional poll results for the 101 Places in Mississippi to see before you die list. I actually made it… Read More ›

• Cemetery Workshop Follow-up

  By JRGordon on December 17, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  After a couple of heavy news weeks, this past one was pretty light again.  Instead of our usual Monday News Round-up then, we have a guest post from Vicki Myers – one of our friends at the Mississippi Department of… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: ZigZag Molding

  By Thomas Rosell on December 14, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  This is our last MissPres Architectural Word of the Week for 2012!  Whether you are crying tears of sadness or joy you can check out any previous words here. As always our example photographs come from the MDAH Historic Resources… Read More ›

• The Buena Vista and a Hyperbolic Parabaloid that should have been

  By Thomas Rosell on December 13, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy I was glad to see that the Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District in New Jersey made it through relatively unscathed.   This got me thinking about some of our lost motels on the Mississippi… Read More ›

• Happy 12-12-12 Day

  By ELMalvaney on December 12, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  In honor of the one and only 12-12-12 day any of us will ever see (unless we can get that Youth Serum working so we all live to be incredibly old and wise yet fit and trim, making all the… Read More ›

• United States Institute of Peace Headquarters: Shaping the public realm, responding to the essence of place, and humanizing the megascale

  By Suzassippi on December 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  I know Washington, DC is a little off the path for Mississippi architecture, but I think the relevance will become clear.  The photographs were taken from the upper deck of a moving bus, so obviously, the perspective will be affected,… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 12-10-2012

  By JRGordon on December 10, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  After a period of slow news weeks, for the second week in a row we have a lot of news stories to share with MissPres readers. Starting this week in Tupelo with a story that we have been following for… Read More ›

• Happy Hanukkah Y’all! 2012

  By Thomas Rosell on December 7, 2012 • ( 22 )

  

  Hanukkah begins tomorrow at sun down.  In celebration of the festival of lights I’ve gathered some photos from the MDAH Historic Resources Database of some of Mississippi’s cultural sites associated with the Jewish faith. Along with the places of worship featured… Read More ›

• Project updates from Biloxi

  By Thomas Rosell on December 6, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  Back in June JR Gordon reported on the rehabilitation of the White Pillars restaurant in Biloxi. Since the restaurant has been closed since the early 1990’s my interest was piqued and I went by for a look. Work has been… Read More ›

• Before and After: Hilton Hotel, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on December 5, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  I’m not sure what architectural style the old Jackson Hilton, built sometime in the 1970s (?) on North State Street would have been called, but all of its style–whatever it was–is gone gone gone today in its current incarnation as… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Beauty in Brutalism?

  By Suzassippi on December 4, 2012 • ( 33 )

  

  The concrete architecture of a few decades ago, once lauded, is now mostly viewed with scorn. Before we tear it down, we should consider what will be lost. (Kubo, Pasnik, & Grimley, 2010, Tough Love: In Defense of Brutalism. Architect: The magazine of the American Institute of Architects)

• MissPres News Roundup 12-3-2012

  By JRGordon on December 3, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  It’s been nearly a month since I’ve done a news roundup – between slow news weeks (preservation wise) and holidays – but I’m back with a long one this time. Starting in Pascagoula where there is news concerning the Brumfield… Read More ›

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