Preservation in Mississippi

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• A Look at a Few Historic Buildings in Aberdeen

  By W. White on September 28, 2018 • ( 23 )

  

  I do not travel around through Mississippi, going from small town to small town, like I used to. I do not have the time, anymore. Really, who does have the time? It seems like all the preservationists I know are… Read More ›

• Head out on the Highway: U.S. 11

  By ELMalvaney on September 27, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  Today’s post is the eighth in our reprint of the 1941 publication Mississippi Tourist Guide, which focused on the many attractions along Mississippi’s newly paved highways. (Check out the Intro if you missed it.)  Note: In the booklet, the paragraphs about Jones… Read More ›

• N. W. Overstreet-designed Alcorn County Courthouse Centennial on October 4

  By W. White on September 26, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  On October 4, the City of Corinth and Alcorn County will hold a centennial celebration for the historic Alcorn County Courthouse, a landmark designed by the dean of all Mississippi architects, Noah Webster Overstreet. That makes this an opportune time… Read More ›

• Hill-Burton Before and After: Franklin County Health Dept.

  By ELMalvaney on September 25, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Unlike some of our previous Hill-Burton medical buildings, Franklin County’s 1949 health department in Meadville is easy to find right on the courthouse square, and other than the . . . very red metal roof, it’s very intact to its… Read More ›

• HABS in Mississippi: Stealing an Alabama HABS Structure – “Jacinto” Doctor’s Office

  By W. White on September 20, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  A bit of a clickbait title if I am honest, but Mississippi does have one of Alabama’s HABS structures. Located on the Old Tishomingo County Courthouse Square in Jacinto is a diminutive but vividly painted and striking building. Yet almost… Read More ›

• Head Out on the Highway: U.S. 51

  By ELMalvaney on September 19, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  Today’s post is the seventh in our reprint of the 1941 publication Mississippi Tourist Guide, which focused on the many attractions along Mississippi’s newly paved highways. (Check out the Intro if you missed it.)  U.S. Highway 51 Shooting straight down through the… Read More ›

• E. K. Myrick, “the popular garage man” in Greenwood: Ford Dealership in retrospect

  By Suzassippi on September 11, 2018 • ( 19 )

  

  Mr. E. K. Myrick, the popular garage man, whose place is on Main street, next to the corner of River Front, has purchased the River Front Stable building and the lot upon which it stands and the lot to the… Read More ›

• Prentiss Club Fire Update

  By ELMalvaney on September 6, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  While the rest of us have been focusing on Tropical Storm Gordon this week (6 inches of good soaking rain in my Jackson rain gauge by late Wednesday), our friends at the Historic Natchez Foundation have been on site with… Read More ›

• More Art Moderne in Greenwood

  By Suzassippi on September 4, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  Following up on last week’s Greenwood Art Moderne Greyhound bus terminal, this week features a remodeled-to-Art Moderne corner service station.  It is part of the Central Commercial and Railroad Historic District and Mary Warren Miller (1985) described the building: Dr…. Read More ›

• Fire damages Prentiss Club in Natchez

  By ELMalvaney on September 3, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  From our friends at the Historic Natchez Foundation comes video of the Prentiss Club in downtown Natchez, damaged by fire on Sunday morning. The red-tile-roofed Italian Renaissance-style building was built in 1904-1905 and designed by New Orleans architects Soule &… Read More ›

• Head Out on the Highway: Miss. 6

  By ELMalvaney on August 30, 2018 • ( 24 )

  

  Today’s post is the sixth in our reprint of the 1941 publication Mississippi Tourist Guide, which focused on the many attractions along Mississippi’s newly paved highways. (Check out the Intro if you missed it.)  Mississippi Highway 6 Miss. Highway 6 is stamped… Read More ›

• Lucky 13: Hurricane Katrina’s Anniversary

  By Thomas Rosell on August 29, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  It’s hard to believe it has been 13 years.  Trying to think of something that is Hurricane Katrina related we’ve not yet shared, I came across this presentation by Mississippi Heritage Trust’s past Executive Director, David Preziosi. It is an… Read More ›

• Go Greyhound: Art Moderne in Mississippi

  By Suzassippi on August 28, 2018 • ( 17 )

  

  The former Greyhound terminal building in Greenwood is the simplest of the Art Moderne stations in Mississippi.  Constructed in 1939, the building was designed by Memphis architect George Mahan.  S. L. McGinnis was the contractor, and J. D. Lanham, both… Read More ›

• African American Civil Rights Preservation Grants

  By ELMalvaney on August 27, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The National Park Service has announced a new round of its popular African American Civil Rights Grants, with an application deadline of October 8, 2018. Qualified projects will fall into one of two subcategories: Preservation (bricks and mortar)–projects from $75,000… Read More ›

• Head Out on the Highway: U.S. 49

  By ELMalvaney on August 23, 2018 • ( 14 )

  

  Today’s post is the fifth in our reprint of the 1941 publication Mississippi Tourist Guide, which focused on the many attractions along Mississippi’s newly paved highways. (Check out the Intro if you missed it.)  U.S. Highway 49 At the progressive town of Clarksdale… Read More ›

• Before and After: Poplar Hill School, Jefferson County

  By ELMalvaney on August 22, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  The folks who have recently brought back from the brink the one-room Poplar Hill School northwest of Fayette in Jefferson County will be holding an open house and rededication of the building after its recent preservation project on OCTOBER 6th, 2018,… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Greenwood City Hall, 1930

  By Suzassippi on August 21, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  Bonds in the amount of $20,500 were passed in Greenwood for the purchase of land to build a new and larger city hall in May 1929.  By July 6, moving of the “old Ed Bryan home” was underway from the… Read More ›

• Head Out on the Highway: U.S. 61

  By ELMalvaney on August 16, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  Today’s post is the fourth in our reprint of the 1941 publication Mississippi Tourist Guide, which focused on the many attractions along Mississippi’s newly paved highways. (Check out the Intro if you missed it.)  “Ole Man River Trail” (U.S. 61) For 1800… Read More ›

• New Deal in Mississippi: Itta Bena Grammar School

  By Suzassippi on August 15, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Itta Bena citizens met in May 1939 to discuss the proposed new elementary school building. The old Itta Bena school building is being wrecked, preparatory to the building of a new school building to serve that community.  (Greenwood Commonwealth, 12 Sep… Read More ›

• Public Comments Open for Bringing Evers House into NPS

  By ELMalvaney on August 13, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  You may have seen in the Clarion-Ledger that the Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, was in Jackson recently to announce the addition of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers House to the National Park Service’s African American Civil Rights Network. This… Read More ›

• Beat The Heat: Patio Roofs

  By Thomas Rosell on August 10, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  In my searches for the history of beating the heat, I came across something I had not put much thought into the history of; covered patios and carports. Today’s examples come from 1960s ads of the Hattiesburg company Davis &… Read More ›

• Head out on the Highway: U.S. 80

  By ELMalvaney on August 8, 2018 • ( 12 )

  

  Today’s post is the third in our reprint of the 1941 publication Mississippi Tourist Guide, which focused on the many attractions along Mississippi’s newly paved highways. (Check out the Intro if you missed it.) U.S. HIGHWAY 80 Cutting directly across… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Greenwood iron columns and pilasters

  By Suzassippi on August 7, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  Readers know I have this love & admiration thing with iron columns, pilasters, and other iron architectural elements.  I spotted a few new-to-me designs in Greenwood, and wanted to continue the focus on that town’s historic architecture.  There are 16… Read More ›

• Did N. W. Overstreet ever live in the N. W. Oversteet house?

  By Thomas Rosell on August 3, 2018 • ( 12 )

  

  Several years ago, Malvaney posted some pictures of the beautiful house at 831 Gillespie Street in Jackson. According to the Belhaven Historic District National Register nomination the house was built c.1916 for Overstreet as his personal residence. The National Register nomination… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Where are all the early Greenwood Banks?

  By Suzassippi on August 1, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  We’ve previously featured the 1890 Bank of Greenwood and the 1913 Wilson Banking Company on Preservation in Mississippi.  Finding details about those bank buildings resulted in somewhat of a scavenger hunt through the newspaper archives and virtual driving around Greenwood.  In… Read More ›

• A. Hays Town Architectural Exhibit

  By ELMalvaney on July 26, 2018 • ( 14 )

  

  A friend sent me this article in the new-to-me Acadiana Advocate newspaper announcing an architectural exhibit focusing on the work of A. Hays Town, specifically his later “Louisiana Style” period after he moved back home from practicing in Jackson, Mississippi… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Former Bank of Greenwood

  By Suzassippi on July 24, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Continuing with the bank buildings focus, Greenwood’s former Bank of Greenwood sits at the corner of Howard and Ramcat Alley.  MDAH calls the c. 1890 building Romanesque and Lloyd Ostby (1980) referred to it as Victorian Romanesque, constructed of brick… Read More ›

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