Preservation in Mississippi

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• Name This Place 9.3.1

  By ELMalvaney on April 11, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  The Name This Place contest heated up yesterday. The last post of the day, Jacinto Courthouse, which is on the 101 Places list, turned out to be the stumper for the day, with a late-night entry by Belinda winning the… Read More ›

• Name This Place 9.2.3

  By ELMalvaney on April 10, 2012 • ( 19 )

  

• Name This Place 9.2.2

  By ELMalvaney on April 10, 2012 • ( 16 )

  

• Name This Place 9.2.1

  By ELMalvaney on April 10, 2012 • ( 18 )

  

  In yesterday’s exciting and confusing Name This Place, Suzassippi, aka Ms. Early Bird, grabbed a bonus point for correctly identifying Longwood in her 4:55 AM answer to the first-ever pre-dawn Name This Place post. Today, I promise not to screw… Read More ›

• Name This Place 9.1.2

  By ELMalvaney on April 9, 2012 • ( 15 )

  

• Name This Place IX: The Doors Edition

  By ELMalvaney on April 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  It’s been a long while since our last Name This Place contest, since last July when JRGordon took over, to be exact. For those of you who are new around these parts, Name This Places contests are usually a week-long festival… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-9-2012

  By JRGordon on April 9, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  A lot of news from this past week to share before we kick off the latest round of “Name This Place”: Gulfport Library is back in the news this week (for those not up on this issue, see the “Backstory”… Read More ›

• Name This Place 9.1.1

  By ELMalvaney on April 9, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

• Happy Easter

  By ELMalvaney on April 8, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

• Preservation-ish Features at the Crossroads Film Festival

  By JRGordon on April 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  MissPres readers in (or will be in) the Jackson area April 13 – 15 might want to check out the Crossroads Film Festival – which will be at the Malco Theater in Madison. This year, our friends at Mississippi Heritage… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Grounds

  By Thomas Rosell on April 6, 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 week… Read More ›

• Cleveland’s Grover Hotel Goes Condo

  By ELMalvaney on April 5, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  Visitors to downtown Cleveland in the past decade or so might have noticed the small town’s lone “skyscraper,” the old five-story Grover Hotel, standing vacant. The Grover and its minimal Mission style has been a fixture in Cleveland’s skyline since… Read More ›

• Bailey School Tan and Clean

  By ELMalvaney on April 4, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  If you’ve had occasion to drive down North State Street in Jackson in the past month you might have noticed that Bailey Junior High School (now Bailey Magnet School) is looking more tan than it has in recent years. For… Read More ›

• Mississippi Unbuilt: 1897 New Capitol

  By ELMalvaney on April 3, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  Back in the 1890s, as we’ve shown in articles and other comments from the period, Mississippi’s capitol, now known as the Old Capitol, was in serious disrepair and considered structurally unsound. Senators dithered about whether to vacate the building for… Read More ›

• Lamar County Courthouse Update

  By ELMalvaney on April 2, 2012 • ( 3 )

  The Purvis-based blog “Ramblings of the Diva” has been following the progress of the Lamar County Courthouse renovation project. Check out her updates: Lamar County Courthouse Part I, Lamar County Courthouse, Part 2, Lamar County Courthouse, Part III

• MissPres News Round-up 4-2-2012

  By JRGordon on April 2, 2012 • ( 1 )

  No fooling – it’s April already.  Don’t forget the Statewide Conference at the end of the month. And now, the news. I’m going to start this week with bad news out of Smithville.  The story from this community is “that… Read More ›

• Stepping on Meridian in Itta Bena

  By ELMalvaney on March 30, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  Maybe you remember the post from last year, “Stepping on Jackson, MS in NOLA” where I showed evidence of Jackson’s Harper Foundry in New Orleans in the form of utility covers on the sidewalk. I’ve continued to make a habit… Read More ›

• Round the Blogosphere 3-29-2012

  By ELMalvaney on March 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Time for a rare almost mid-week, not-quite Friday roundup of interesting blog posts. Our Mississippi bloggers have been taking advantage of the nice weather lately to get out and peek into corners and out of the way places, and I… Read More ›

• Abandoned Mississippi: Vicksburg’s Mercy Hospital

  By ELMalvaney on March 28, 2012 • ( 104 )

  

  Standing on a two-block parcel on a high hill overlooking Grove Street, the old Mercy Hospital’s blue tile front wall still beckons drivers off of the busy Clay Street thoroughfare. But the massive building is no longer a hive of… Read More ›

• National Preservation Economist to speak at Statewide Conference

  By JRGordon on March 27, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  One big news story I did not include in yesterday’s roundup was that our friends at Mississippi Heritage Trust have announced that registration is now open for the Statewide Preservation Conference.  The conference will be held April 26 – 27… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-26-2012

  By JRGordon on March 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Got some troubling news in this week’s round up – so I’m trying to balance it with the joy of being able to type it up while sitting outside enjoying the wonderful Spring weather (thank goodness for laptops and wireless… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Flemish Bond

  By Thomas Rosell on March 23, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  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 ›

• Before and After: Meridian’s Merrehope

  By ELMalvaney on March 22, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  Most of us know of Meridian’s National Register-listed museum house Merrehope. Today’s Before and After is actually an After and Before, showing what Merrehope looked like in the 1880s and before the major renovation and additions of the turn of… Read More ›

• Yazoo City’s Delta National Bank and Its Place in American Architectural History

  By ELMalvaney on March 21, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  A while back I stumbled onto a website called “Defining Downtown at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the Bank Building & Equipment Corporation of America.” A part of the Recent Past Network, the site aims to bring attention to the thousands… Read More ›

• Scooba-Doobie-Doo. Which house are you?

  By Thomas Rosell on March 20, 2012 • ( 21 )

  

  Plate I. COTTAGE AT SCOOBA, MISS. In a Southern climate the requirements for houses, either great or small, are very different from what they are at the North. Special attention must be paid to keeping cool in summer rather than… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-19-2012

  By JRGordon on March 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Google tells me that the first day of Spring is tomorrow – but judging by the layer of pollen on my car, I’d say it started weeks ago.  Hope everyone is getting out and taking advantage of the warm (but… Read More ›

• Vicksburg NMP: Other Monuments Worth Stopping For

  By ELMalvaney on March 16, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Well, we’ve come the end of our week-long tour through Vicksburg National Military Park. If you’ve missed the earlier posts, you might want to start at the beginning. Seeing the 101: Vicksburg National Military Park People Monuments, or “Pardon me,… Read More ›

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