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• Vicksburg NMP: Small But Interesting Ohio Monuments

  By ELMalvaney on March 15, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Since I was so wordy yesterday, today I’ll let the pictures do the talking. While the other states mostly erected a single large monument commemorating their soldiers’ sacrifices, Ohio chose a different route. According to the Park website, Rather than erect… Read More ›

• Warren Port Commission Moves Again to Destroy Ceres

  By ELMalvaney on March 14, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  According to Alan Huffman’s blog, the Warren County Port Commission is on the warpath again in its ongoing quest to demolish the main house at Ceres Plantation. Read all about it here. Ceres Plantation, a rare surviving example of a… Read More ›

• Vicksburg NMP: Mississippi’s Monuments

  By ELMalvaney on March 14, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Apart from the large “person” monuments we looked at yesterday, the monuments that really catch the eye at Vicksburg National Military Park are the state memorials. The Park’s website lists the monuments, separated by which side of the war they… Read More ›

• Vicksburg NMP: People Monuments, or “Pardon Me, General Grant!”

  By ELMalvaney on March 13, 2012 • ( 12 )

  

  Continuing in our week-long series of travels and observations in Vicksburg National Military Park . . . The vast majority of the people-centered monuments in the Vicksburg National Military Park are simple busts or bas reliefs of various important military… Read More ›

• Seeing the 101: Vicksburg National Military Park

  By ELMalvaney on March 12, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  Spring is here and it’s time to head out to see the world, or at least a little slice of Mississippi before the heat of summer comes in and crushes you. On that note, a couple weeks ago, just before… Read More ›

• Water Valley Makes NYT

  By ELMalvaney on March 10, 2012 • ( 7 )

  Congratulations to Water Valley, whose downtown revitalization and preservation efforts have made the New York Times, in “They Made Main Street Their Own: How Four Women Revived a Derelict Mississippi Town.”

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Entablature

  By Thomas Rosell on March 9, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  This is our fifth 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? Having… Read More ›

• Architect Harry North Austin: Never a Half-Way Man

  By ELMalvaney on March 8, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  A while ago, I ran a post in the Pictures Series about Jackson architect Harry North Austin. Thanks to a beautiful photograph preserved and passed down through one of his daughters and shared with us by granddaughter Olis Billings, we… Read More ›

• Abandoned: Vaughan, Mississippi

  By ELMalvaney on March 7, 2012 • ( 165 )

  

  Recently I decided to take the Vaughan exit off I-55 to see how this little hamlet was doing. It’s been a while since I was through, maybe 2004 or 2005, but even then it seemed like things were slipping away…. Read More ›

• Walt Grayson recognizes Poplar Hill

  By ELMalvaney on March 6, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Congratulations to the folks at Poplar Hill School in Jefferson County, one of our 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die, for a nice story on Walt Grayson’s Looking Around Mississippi. Aired on Friday, March 2, the story interviews alumni… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-5-2012

  By JRGordon on March 5, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  Wow!  I can’t believe it’s March already.  Lots of Spring events on the calendar to take advantage of, so be sure to check it out.  Now for the news: The biggest story I saw this week was from Natchez, where… Read More ›

• Seeing the MissPres 101 Places and Asking Questions

  By ELMalvaney on March 2, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Tom Freeland at the North Mississippi Commentor has jumped on the road to his old haunts in southwest Mississippi to see a good chunk of the sites on the recently published 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die. So on… Read More ›

• 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . Count the Holes in the Hinds County Armory Roof!

  By ELMalvaney on March 1, 2012 • ( 13 )

  

  You may recall a post from long ago called “Hinds County Armory Shamefully Neglected.” If you weren’t around then, this is a bit of what I said: Those of you who have visited the Mississippi State Fair might have noticed… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, June 1964: Gilfoy School of Nursing

  By ELMalvaney on February 29, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  The featured building in Mississippi Architect’s June 1964 issue was the Gilfoy Nursing School at Baptist Hospital in Jackson. In last week’s post about the endangered Rexall Drug Store on North State Street across from Baptist, I noted that the… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, June 1964: Who’s Building Is It?

  By ELMalvaney on February 28, 2012 • ( 1 )

  In the June 1964 issue of the Mississippi Architect, editor Edward F. Neal picks up a similar theme to his editorial of May 1964, “The Language Barrier,” noting the disconnect between architects and their clients. In this issue, he re-prints… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 2-27-2012

  By JRGordon on February 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  March is almost upon us – and the MissPres calendar has all the events that are “Springing” up around the state.  One to add to the calendar is the Loose Caboose Festival in Newton – which is this Saturday. And… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Dentil

  By Thomas Rosell on February 24, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  This is our fourth MissPres Architectural Word of the Week.  We are moving right along through the alphabet with our past words having been Abacus, Bracket, and Corbel.  Have you been keeping an eye out for these elements like I… Read More ›

• “Everything Level, Toylike From Air”

  By ELMalvaney on February 23, 2012 • ( 4 )

  We like to think that technology is advancing faster today than it ever has before. But the early to mid-twentieth century could give us a run for our money, showing possibly even more consequential change in the period 1900-1930. Today’s… Read More ›

• Hints of Segregation Past

  By ELMalvaney on February 22, 2012 • ( 16 )

  

  Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away I wrote a post about the layers of history we can see in our architecture by looking at the backs and sides of buildings. That post “Where History Meets Architecture” was about… Read More ›

• Dear Baptist Hospital: Please Save This Building!

  By ELMalvaney on February 21, 2012 • ( 25 )

  

  A concerned reader passed along the discouraging news that the old Patterson-Bradford Rexall Drug Store on N. State Street in Jackson may soon fall victim to yet more Baptist Hospital expansion. I hope Baptist will re-consider: this building’s architecturally significance… Read More ›

• Two Videos to Start Your Week

  By ELMalvaney on February 20, 2012 • ( 2 )

  JRGordon decided to take President’s Day off from the weekly news roundup, but luckily MissPreser Blake Wintory of Lakeport Plantation sent links to two YouTube videos (or are they called digital shorts nowdays?) that I think everyone will find worth… Read More ›

• The MissPres 101 Places Map!

  By ELMalvaney on February 17, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Well, as usual it took me a little longer than I had promised, and I only got it done with help from reader and fellow blogger Tom Freeland, but here at long last is the Official MissPres 101 Places to… Read More ›

• Molitor’s Mississippi: February 11, 1954

  By Thomas Rosell on February 16, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  This week we are following Architectural Photographer Joseph Molitor on the 58th anniversary of his 1954 trip. Today is the last day of our three-blog-postings trip through Mississippi with Mr. Molitor. According to Columbia University’s Avery Library Archive, by Thursday… Read More ›

• Molitor’s Mississippi: February 8-10, 1954

  By Thomas Rosell on February 15, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  This week we are following Architectural Photographer Joseph Molitor on the 58th anniversary of his 1954 trip to Mississippi. Molitor’s collection of photos, now at the Columbia University Avery Library in New York, forms an important documentary of what the… Read More ›

• Molitor’s Mississippi: February 3, 1954

  By Thomas Rosell on February 14, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  You may remember about this time last year, how we followed the 1952 footsteps of architectural photographer Joseph Molitor on the 59th anniversary of his first professional trip through Mississippi. As a reminder, here’s a little background about Molitor from the… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 2-13-2012

  By JRGordon on February 13, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Happy Monday!  Here’s the latest preservation news from around the state: We’ll start on the Coast where 33rd Avenue School in Gulfport is back in the news.  If you remember from a couple of posts last summer (here and here),… Read More ›

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Corbel

  By Thomas Rosell on February 10, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  This is our third MissPres Architectural Word of the Week. If you missed any of the earlier posts, this series was spawned by Malvaney’s post about architectural dictionaries. Our past two words have been Abacus and Bracket. Have you been… Read More ›

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