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• Mississippi Builders: Isaac C. Garber

  By ELMalvaney on July 18, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  You’ve probably never heard of Isaac Calvin Garber, better known on various cornerstones and building plaques around the state as I.C. Garber. But if you’ve been to Jackson or Laurel or dozens of other places around the state; attended Mississippi… Read More ›

• Happy 110th Birthday Electromechanical Cooling!

  By Thomas Rosell on July 17, 2012 • ( 10 )

  Happy 110th Birthday Electromechanical Cooling!  a.k.a. Air Conditioning!  Mississippi is indeed indebted to Willis Carrier.  So when you step out of the heat into some cool air be sure to thank Mr. Carrier.

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Heathman Plantation

  By Suzassippi on July 17, 2012 • ( 60 )

  

  The Heathman Plantation in Sunflower County was originally known as Dogwood Ridge Plantation.  It was purchased in 1871 by J. M. Heathman and renamed.  Heathman was married to Lille Brown, the daughter of James Brown who built the house later… Read More ›

• And then there were four . . .

  By ELMalvaney on July 16, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  We’ve been worried about the steep decline of the landmark Mississippi Industrial College property, especially the oldest building, Cathrine Hall (1905), which suffered structural damage in a storm back in 2009, damage that wasn’t addressed and quickly escalated into wholesale… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Nogging

  By Thomas Rosell on July 13, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  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?  Our images… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, August 1964: Greenville Motor Bank

  By ELMalvaney on July 12, 2012 • ( 15 )

  

  The August 1964 issue of the Mississippi Architect magazine features a building type that I hadn’t even noticed on the landscape until Thomas Rossell started pointing it out to me: the motor bank, better known to us today as the… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, August 1964: “Assembly Line” Holiday Inn

  By ELMalvaney on July 11, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  In his editorial for August 1964, Mississippi Architect editor and Jackson architect Bob Henry calls architects to public service. If you know an architect, odds are, he or she is serving on a board of some kind, whether public or… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Linden Terrace, Holly Springs

  By Suzassippi on July 10, 2012 • ( 14 )

  

  My first trip through Holly Springs was in the fall of 2003, on my way to Memphis.  I was fascinated by the Square, and Mississippi Industrial College, and vowed to return.  Although I finally made my first visit to MIC… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 7-9-2012

  By JRGordon on July 9, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  With the holiday this week, and the big news being Ceres Plantation (which Malvaney covered in a single post) I wasn’t sure we were going to get enough news for a round-up this week – but we did. Starting off… Read More ›

• Mississippi by Air: School for the Deaf, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on July 6, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  For a current view of the campus, check out the Birdseye view on Bing: http://binged.it/M3tmJW and see if you can spot which original buildings are still there.

• Port Commission Gets Its Wish on Ceres, Gains Large Vacant Space to Go Along With All Its Other Large Vacant Spaces

  By ELMalvaney on July 5, 2012 • ( 10 )

  

  According to WLBT and the Vicksburg Post, Ceres Plantation was supposed to go to the wrecker on Tuesday. The antebellum house and its associated barns will be “dismantled” (i.e. salvaged as little building parts to be sold at upscale home… Read More ›

• Happy 4th Y’all

  By Thomas Rosell on July 4, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: I. C. Levy Department Store, Holly Springs

  By Suzassippi on July 3, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  In 1858, I. C. Levy, a Jewish immigrant from France, began his clothing store in Holly Springs, originally in the Southwest block of the Square (John Mickle, The South Reporter, November 25, 1965).  The MDAH Historic Inventory database identifies this block as… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup: 7-2-2012

  By JRGordon on July 2, 2012 • ( 3 )

  Welcome to July!  The year is 1/2 over already – which is hard to believe. Since Thomas Rossell spilled the beans on the early-in-the-week Job Corps / 33rd Avenue School story as a comment on last week’s roundup – my… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Mushroom Capital

  By Thomas Rosell on June 29, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  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? While only… Read More ›

• Should the New Capitol Be a National Historic Landmark?

  By ELMalvaney on June 28, 2012 • ( 14 )

  

  Starting around the centennial of our New Capitol in 2003, there have been occasional rumblings about trying to have the building bumped up from its current National Register listing to a National Historic Landmark designation. National Historic Landmarks are the… Read More ›

• Touring the “Other” Charnley House

  By ELMalvaney on June 27, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  A few weeks ago, during the official MissPres Summer Vacation, I had a chance to visit the “other” Charnley House, the one in Chicago. You’ve probably heard of and maybe even been able to get down to see the Mississippi… Read More ›

• 101 Places: Airliewood in Holly Springs

  By Suzassippi on June 26, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  Airliewood is listed on the 101 Places in MIssissippi to See Before you Die list…but will not be able to be seen without an invitation onto the grounds.  Iron fences, and mature trees combine to make it primarily hidden from… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-25-2012

  By JRGordon on June 25, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  It’s too hot for witty intros – so straight to the news: First, good news in Tupelo where we thought the City Council was going to wait on an opinion from the Attorney General’s office related to the bid laws… Read More ›

• Mississippi by Air: Camp Zion, Myrtle

  By ELMalvaney on June 22, 2012 • ( 13 )

  

  Happy camping season!

• Newspaper Clippings: Save the Governor’s Mansion, Ditch the Old Capitol

  By ELMalvaney on June 21, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  This article/editorial, taking a stand on the preservation of the Governor’s Mansion and the Old Capitol, was re-printed in the Vicksburg Evening Post (July 21, 1905, p.2) from an original publication in the Biloxi Review. MISSISSIPPI’S OLD CAPITOL BUILDING With… Read More ›

• Jackson’s Mill Street, Pearl River Glass, and Other Assorted Randomness

  By ELMalvaney on June 20, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  This post is kind of a stream of consciousness post, although probably not qualifying as Faulkneresque. Back in May, I happened to catch most of the Mississippi Arts Hour on MPB (which I prefer to call by its old name,… Read More ›

• 101 Places: Walter Place in Holly Springs

  By Suzassippi on June 19, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Harvey Washington Walter “challenged [architect Spires Boling] to create something grander than the classic Greek Revival house with tall white columns” (walterplace.com).  Boling’s response was the Gothic towers “topped with castellated battlements.” Battlement: …a parapet with indentations or embrasures with… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-18-2012

  By JRGordon on June 18, 2012 • ( 5 )

  “Officially” Summer starts later this week, but some preservation news stories are already heating up – luckily, I found some good news stories that I hope will balance this week’s roundup out nicely. First, Meridian where there were two stories… Read More ›

• Prospect Hill this week’s topic at History Is Lunch

  By ELMalvaney on June 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  This just in from the MDAH website: “Wednesday, June 20, noon–1 p.m. at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building. As part of the History Is Lunch series,  Archaeological Conservancy southeast regional director Jessica Crawford talks about the Conservancy’s… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Lally Column

  By Thomas Rosell on June 15, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  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… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architects: William A. Stanton (1870-1948)

  By ELMalvaney on June 14, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Yesterday, we saw two portraits of Vicksburg’s builder/architect William Stanton. Today, thanks to granddaughter Sandra Stanton Toler and Dorothy O’Neill, we see a lifetime of portraits of Stanton’s architect son William A. Stanton. William A. Stanton perhaps was Mississippi’s first… Read More ›

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