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• Architect Pics: William Stanton (1840-1908)

  By ELMalvaney on June 13, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Back in January, you may recall, I ran a great obituary from the Vicksburg Post memorializing Vicksburg’s important architect/builder William Stanton, whose career spanned the transition from small-scale tradesmen to large-scale construction firms. Not too long ago, MissPres reader Dorothy O’Neil… Read More ›

• Mound Bayou 125th Anniversary Celebration

  By Suzassippi on June 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  July 12th marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of the City of Mound Bayou, Mississippi.  During the week of July 8-14, 2012, the City of Mound Bayou invites you to share in the celebration of this unique community, established… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-11-2012

  By JRGordon on June 11, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Wow – can’t believe it’s June already.  Despite the heat, there are some things on the MissPres Calendar to check out – including a two day “Historic Preservation Boot Camp” held by our friends at MDAH. Been a while since… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: Heritage Motel, Columbus

  By ELMalvaney on June 8, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• Vacation Postcards: Gilhara Motor Hotel, Greenville

  By ELMalvaney on June 7, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• Vacation Postcards: Blue Gables Tourist Court, Hattiesburg

  By ELMalvaney on June 6, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• Vacation Postcards: Lakeview Motel, Brandon

  By ELMalvaney on June 5, 2012 • ( 18 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• Vacation Postcards: No-el Motel, Corinth

  By ELMalvaney on June 4, 2012 • ( 13 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• Visit Prospect Hill Next Saturday!

  By ELMalvaney on June 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  As you’re making plans for next weekend, think about taking our friend Jessica Crawford and the Archaeological Conservancy up on their offer to visit Prospect Hill in Jefferson County. As you recall Prospect Hill’s first Open House last fall was… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Kneeler

  By Thomas Rosell on June 1, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  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 weeks… Read More ›

• 2012 Mississippi Heritage Trust Heritage Awards

  By JRGordon on May 31, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  After the Statewide Conference at the end of April, we had a couple of stories highlighting winners of the Mississippi Heritage Trust’s Heritage Awards – but unless you’ve gone to MHT’s website, you have not gotten the full list of… Read More ›

• Recent MDAH Grant Awards

  By JRGordon on May 30, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Saw two press releases on the MDAH website worth separating out from the usual Roundup (especially since these two stories make up the bulk of the news since the last roundup). The first was one titled “MDAH Awards Grants at… Read More ›

• Taborian Hospital Project Update

  By Suzassippi on May 29, 2012 • ( 27 )

  

  Work on the restoration and renovation of Mound Bayou’s Taborian Hospital–slated to become the Taborian Urgent Care Center–is finally making visual progress after several months of planning and development.  The plywood is off the doors and some of the windows,… Read More ›

• Memorial Day, 2012

  By ELMalvaney on May 28, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

• Sometimes It Is About Magnolias

  By ELMalvaney on May 25, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  This Memorial Day weekend, I hope you’ll have a chance to get out and smell the magnolias whether in your own yard or your neighbor’s. Take a blossom to the cemetery and put it on the grave of a soldier…. Read More ›

• Jackson’s Lakewood Cemetery: Mississippi AIA Founding Generation’s Final Resting Place

  By ELMalvaney on May 24, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  It took me only two trips to Jackson’s Lakewood Cemetery–way out on West Capitol after it turns into Clinton Boulevard–to figure out that a significant number of our founding generation of professional architects had been laid to rest there. Overstreet,… Read More ›

• Where Have All the Roof Signs Gone?

  By ELMalvaney on May 23, 2012 • ( 34 )

  

  My little postcard collection continues to grow, although more slowly now that you can’t get even a really boring common postcard on eBay for less than three or four dollars. One thing I started to notice was the prevalence of… Read More ›

• Oxford City Hall, former Federal Building and Post Office

  By Suzassippi on May 22, 2012 • ( 15 )

  

  Next up on the “101 Places in Mississippi to see before you die” list is the City Hall of Oxford, former Federal Building and Post Office for 90 years (1885-1975).  The City Hall took 5% (43 votes)  of the vote… Read More ›

• 1000

  By ELMalvaney on May 22, 2012 • ( 7 )

  Congratulations to Preservation in Mississippi and the MissPres universe for sticking around for this, the 1000th post :-)

• MissPres News Roundup 5-21-2012

  By JRGordon on May 21, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  Time keeps flying – it’s hard to believe it’s already this late in May.  There’s still some Preservation Month activities before June is upon us – check on the calendar for dates and times. And here’s the news: We are… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Jerkinhead Gable

  By Thomas Rosell on May 18, 2012 • ( 19 )

  

  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 ›

• Which Preservation Organization?

  By ELMalvaney on May 16, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  In case you’ve missed it, a fairly robust conversation has sprung up in the comments to Monday’s discouraging post about Ceres Plantation and its destruction-minded owners, the Warren County Port Commission. In addition to comments about the irrationality of the… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: First Presbyterian Church of Water Valley

  By Suzassippi on May 15, 2012 • ( 12 )

  

  The First Presbyterian Church of Water Valley was established in 1843.  The Romanesque building was erected in 1896.  Romanesque Revival was a popular style in the late 1800s in Mississippi, particularly for Presbyterian and Methodist churches (Pace/Cawthon, Lost Churches of… Read More ›

• Warren County Port Commission spending $29,000 to demolish . . . uh . . . “recycle” Ceres

  By ELMalvaney on May 14, 2012 • ( 31 )

  

  Now that so many local newspapers have moved to an online subscription system, we rely on readers from around the state who subscribe to the print editions to let us know of important preservation issues in their neck of the… Read More ›

• A Little Contest: Like a Ton of (Concrete) Bricks

  By Thomas Rosell on May 11, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  So this morning we had a mini contest about a material that is on the primary facade of a building on 28th Avenue in downtown Gulfport.  All the answers were pretty spot on but the answer that contained all the… Read More ›

• A Little Contest

  By Thomas Rosell on May 11, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  A while back at Preservation In Pink Kaitlin had a little quiz to identify a specific material, which turned out to be plaster scored to give the appearance of ceramic tile.  I thought that it would be fun to have… Read More ›

• History of Art in Mississippi: Churches (II)

  By ELMalvaney on May 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Finally at long last we are at the end of the Architecture chapter in History of Art in Mississippi, published in 1929. In addition to this chapter, several other chapters concentrate on the state’s historic buildings, including two chapters on… Read More ›

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