Preservation in Mississippi

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• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Tate County Courthouse

  By Suzassippi on August 21, 2012 • ( 13 )

  

  I think it is part of my nature that I tend to root for the underdog.  When it comes to things like world peace and hunger and poverty, this is hugely important.  When it comes to the 101 Places in… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-20-2012

  By JRGordon on August 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  This has been the week of National Register-related news around the state. Recent additions to the NR: Moss Point Historic District.  According to the story, it sounds like the city is interested in seeking funding for signage to spotlight their… Read More ›

• Hurricane Camille 43rd Anniversary

  By Thomas Rosell on August 18, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been 43 years since Hurricane Camille. Follow this link to the Camille 30th Anniversary study compiled by the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Center for Science and Technology Policy… Read More ›

• Lost Mississippi: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fuller House

  By ELMalvaney on August 17, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  Forty-three years ago today, Mississippi lost one of its handful of Frank Lloyd Wright designs, a house in Pass Christian known as the Fuller House. Located at 317 Sandy Hook Drive, the house, designed in 1951, was considered part of… Read More ›

• Welcome To Our Fine City

  By ELMalvaney on August 16, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  Many towns use their historic (or newer) water tanks to announce their name to visitors, such as Mendenhall or nearby Magee. But others go the extra mile, getting creative with landscaping to bring their name closer to earth. Possibly the… Read More ›

• Mississippi and Skuna Valley Railroad Being Torn Up

  By ELMalvaney on August 15, 2012 • ( 0 )

  MissPres reader Matthew sent me a heads-up last week about the Mississippi and Skuna Valley Railroad (1925-2008), which operated primarily as a lumber line between Coffeeville and Bruce, Mississippi until 2008. The 22-mile line is currently being torn up after… Read More ›

• Gulf Park Update

  By ELMalvaney on August 15, 2012 • ( 14 )

  

  Intrepid MissPreser and Gulf Coast preservation reporter Mark Davis took note of recent comments on the March 2010 Gulf Park post and went down to the campus, located right on Beach Boulevard in Long Beach, to see the state of things… Read More ›

• 101 Places: Dockery Farms Plantation

  By Suzassippi on August 14, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  Dockery Farms, number three in the Delta regional poll for the 101 Places in Mississippi to see before you die, was established in 1895 “to produce cotton, America’s biggest export at the time” (DockeryFarms.org).  Located on Highway 8 between Cleveland… Read More ›

• MissPress News Roundup 8-13-2012

  By JRGordon on August 13, 2012 • ( 2 )

  News picked up again this past week, so I’m going to dive right in: First up, the Spain House in Tupelo was in the news again this week.  This is a story we’ve been following for a while here on… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Pilaster

  By Thomas Rosell on August 10, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  Time for another MissPres Architectural Word of the Week. As we move right along through the alphabet, you can check out our past words here. Have you been keeping an eye out for these elements like I have? This week’s… Read More ›

• Gargoyles and Grotesques I Have Known

  By ELMalvaney on August 9, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Thomas Rosell remarked after yesterday’s post that there is a difference between gargoyles and grotesques, namely that gargoyles serve a function as a downspout, while grotesques are, well, I guess “ornamental” may not be the best term, but mainly their… Read More ›

• Show Me the Alligator Gargoyles!

  By ELMalvaney on August 8, 2012 • ( 20 )

  

  Last week when I was working on the Tower Building post, I opened up that valuable little book Jackson Landmarks, compiled and published by the Jackson Junior League back in 1982. Every time I peruse this book I find something new,… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: St John the Baptist Catholic Church

  By Suzassippi on August 7, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Another building that failed to make the final 101 Places in Mississippi to see before you die list is St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Sardis.  It took only 1% of the vote in the Holly Springs/Oxford area of the… Read More ›

• Round the Blogosphere 8-6-2012

  By ELMalvaney on August 6, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  This probably doesn’t qualify as a full-fledged Round the Blogosphere, but since JRGordon didn’t find much in the Mississippi newspapers for a News Roundup, I thought I’d throw out a few articles I’ve bookmarked recently from the outside world. First… Read More ›

• Going Inside: MSU’s Chapel of Memories

  By ELMalvaney on August 3, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  We had a little fun at MSU’s expense in yesterday’s “MSU’s Love Affair With Building Plaques,” but the truth is, MSU has many many great buildings on its campus. In fact, I’m going out on the limb here to assert… Read More ›

• MSU’s Love Affair With Building Plaques

  By ELMalvaney on August 2, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  I was up at Mississippi State University recently and decided to walk through a building I had never actually seen inside before, the Bost Extension Center. As always, I made sure to check out the plaque in the lobby telling… Read More ›

• Newspaper Clippings: Jackson’s Art Deco Icon at the Beginning

  By ELMalvaney on August 1, 2012 • ( 10 )

  

  Details of revised plans for a million dollar 22-story office building, towering more than 100 feet above any structure in Jackson, and to be built by the Enochs and Flowers interests and the Paul Chambers and associated interests, were announced last night.

• W. A. Rayfield: Mt. Gilead Baptist Church

  By Suzassippi on July 31, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Back in February 2011, Malvaney ran a post about Wallace Augustus Rayfield, one of the first African American architects: Rayfield, a native of Georgia, was educated at Howard, Columbia and the Pratt Institute, and taught architecture and drafting at Tuskegee… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 7-30-2012

  By JRGordon on July 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Greetings MissPresers!  We’re about to be on the “downhill” side of Summer – so I think it’s safe to start planning some Autumn outings to see some of our favorite Mississippi Places.  As we start to hear about events, we’ll… Read More ›

• New Blog Follows Manship House Project

  By ELMalvaney on July 28, 2012 • ( 3 )

  Check out the new blog “Mississippi Victorian,” an MDAH site that will follow the major renovation work now underway at the Manship House, one of two Jackson house museums operated by MDAH.

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Onion Dome

  By Thomas Rosell on July 27, 2012 • ( 10 )

  

  Time for another MissPres Architectural Word of the Week. As we move right along through the alphabet, you can check out our past words here. Have you been keeping an eye out for these elements like I have? This week’s… Read More ›

• Homogeneously Eclectic Yazoo City Storefronts

  By ELMalvaney on July 26, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  Yazoo City’s downtown may qualify as the most homogenous in the state, by which I mean of the same period and of a piece. As most of you probably know, a great fire took out a couple dozen blocks of… Read More ›

• Uncredited Mississippi: Forest Heights, Gulfport

  By Thomas Rosell on July 25, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  In my car I keep a copy of A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia and Lee McAlester. It comes in handy when I have some time to spend while waiting for an appointment or if I am out… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Leland M. E. Church, South

  By Suzassippi on July 24, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  The Leland Methodist Church was constructed 1923-24 in a Mission, Spanish Revival style. The MDAH HRI database references similarity of the design of the Fayette, Alabama Methodist Church in crediting the architect (T. L. Brodie, conjectured) and builder (L. Vance, conjectured)…. Read More ›

• State Fair Commission Considers Hinds Armory’s Fate

  By ELMalvaney on July 23, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has offered the Fair Commission emergency stabilization money to save the Hinds County Armory by putting a new roof on the building and making the building weather tight to prevent deterioration until a full rehabilitation can take place.

• Going Inside: Brookhaven P.O.

  By ELMalvaney on July 20, 2012 • ( 14 )

  

  Listed on the National Register both individually and as part of the Downtown Brookhaven Historic District, the Brookhaven Post Office is an impressive building. It’s also surrounded by impressive buildings, including the First Methodist Church and the Whitworth College campus… Read More ›

• Abandoned Mississippi: Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital

  By ELMalvaney on July 19, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  Now that we have hope for the future of Mound Bayou’s Taborian Hospital, maybe we can renew some energy for Yazoo City’s earlier Afro American Sons and Daughters Hospital, long abandoned and disappearing beneath ravenous vines. Mississippi’s first hospital for… Read More ›

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