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• To Be or Not To Be, That Was the Question

  By ELMalvaney on February 9, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  Three years and one day ago after a full day of painting on my house renovation project, I sat down at my computer and started a blog. I had never started a blog before. I thought it would be an… Read More ›

• A Brief History of Headers

  By ELMalvaney on February 8, 2012 • ( 10 )

  

  Today is technically the third anniversary of Preservation in Mississippi, but due to my own mistaken impression on the first year’s anniversary that February 9 was the big day, tomorrow will actually be the “Observed” date. In the meantime, as you’ll… Read More ›

• Biloxi’s Blighted Banking Buildings Blowup (not really but they are getting demolished)

  By Thomas Rosell on February 7, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  JRGordon first reported on the city of Biloxi’s blighted property list back in an early November round-up.  The list is starting to generate either repairs or demolitions as reported recently by the Sun Herald.  While most buildings on the list… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 2-6-2012

  By JRGordon on February 6, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  We have a short-ish round up this week – meaning that you will still have plenty of time to search for the most popular commercials from this year’s Super Bowl. Our first story this week is in regards to the… Read More ›

• Interesting Mississippi-related Blog Posts

  By ELMalvaney on February 4, 2012 • ( 2 )

  If you can get past the title, the Curator of Shit blog has several interesting Mississipp-related posts, ranging from “The Glorious Evolution of Messeur Elisaeus von Seutter’s Pleasure Grounds at Ivy Cottage, Jackson, Mississippi,” to “A typical early 20th century… Read More ›

• Corinth Machinery Building, 1869-2012

  By ELMalvaney on February 3, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  As JRGordon noted in last week’s News Roundup, the long-abandoned and highly endangered Corinth Machinery Building, built in 1869, suffered a large partial collapse in that weekend’s heavy storms. As you might remember from a post back in January 2010,… Read More ›

• Slave Dwelling Project in Holly Springs

  By ELMalvaney on February 2, 2012 • ( 2 )

  According to the Preserve Holy Springs and Marshall County Facebook page, Joe McGill of The Slave Dwelling Project will be spending the night in two Holly Springs slave quarters during Pilgrimage (April 13-15) and helping visitors understand these historic places…. Read More ›

• The Official 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die List

  By ELMalvaney on February 1, 2012 • ( 12 )

  

  As I mentioned yesterday, due to my natural soft-hearted nature, our famous and infamous list of 101 Places is actually a list of 106 Places, but I make no apologies. It’s not the list I would have come up with… Read More ›

• Trying to Make Sense of the 101 MissPres Places Poll

  By ELMalvaney on January 31, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  Today and tomorrow, we will finally, at long last and after much fretting, announce the list of 101 Mississippi Places To See Before You Die (shortened to 101 Places for convenience). For those of you who weren’t around from start… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 1-30-2012

  By JRGordon on January 30, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  After last week, I thought I might have to change my name and hide for a while with all the bad news to report, but found this week to be better, so I decided it was safe to do the… Read More ›

• Two Photo Essays on Endangered Places

  By ELMalvaney on January 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Check out these two recent photo essays on endangered historic places in Mississippi: “Decaying History”  on the Modern Southerner blog, and “A beautiful dogtrot house, fading slowly away” on NMissCommentor.

• MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Bracket

  By Thomas Rosell on January 27, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  This is our second MissPres Architectural Word of the Week. If you missed out on our first post, this series was spawned by Malvaney’s post about architectural dictionaries. I thought it would be fun to have a bi-weekly post that… Read More ›

• Abandoned Mississippi: Port Gibson Oil Works

  By ELMalvaney on January 26, 2012 • ( 40 )

  

  The abandoned plant of the Mississippi Cotton Oil Company wasn’t on the recent Port Gibson Holiday Home Tour, but as I was wandering about before the tours started, I was drawn to the place, just north of downtown, like a… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, May 1964: Gulde Methodist Church

  By ELMalvaney on January 25, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  A simple Modern rural church was the featured Mississippi building in the May 1964 issue of the Mississippi Architect. ——————————————————————– GULDE METHODIST CHURCH Rankin County, Miss. CLEMMER & CLARK, A.I.A. Architects Jackson, Miss. R.D. MOON Contractor Pelahatchie, Miss. THIS rural… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, May 1964: Speaking Architects’ Language

  By ELMalvaney on January 24, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  In his editorial for May 1964, Mississippi Architect editor and Jackson architect Edward F. Neal notes the language barrier between architects and clients. This is and probably always will be a problem with any kind of specialized field, and like… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 1-23-2012

  By JRGordon on January 23, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  Disclaimer: I just roundup the news stories, so don’t shoot the messenger . . . Might as well start with the worst of it . . . the crazy weather lately has causes major damage to the Corinth Machinery Building. … Read More ›

• Going Inside: St. Joseph Catholic Church and its Blue Glow

  By ELMalvaney on January 20, 2012 • ( 14 )

  

  It’s a nice coincidence that in the same week as an update on Jackson’s First Christian Church we should look at the interior of Port Gibson’s St. Joseph Catholic Church. Built almost exactly 100 years apart, these two buildings might be… Read More ›

• Some Things To Do This “Winter”

  By ELMalvaney on January 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  It’s that time of year again for Millsaps to offer its Community Enrichment Series, short courses geared toward the general public and for a small fee. In addition to courses as varied as portrait photography and belly dancing, they are… Read More ›

• Is that a hole in First Christian?

  By ELMalvaney on January 18, 2012 • ( 13 )

  

  Just before the New Year, MissPres reader “M” (who, I’m told, is a first cousin twice removed from James Bond’s “Q”), alerted us in a comment left on “Friends We Lost in 2011” that there appears to be a large… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 1-17-2012

  By JRGordon on January 17, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Wow! We’re already into the 3rd week of January.  I know our friends at MDAH are busy this week – National Register Nominations will be considered at their Review Board meeting on Thursday and their Board of Trustees meets Friday… Read More ›

• Martin Luther King, Jr. in Philadelphia, Miss.

  By ELMalvaney on January 16, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  From the Downtown Philadelphia Historic District nomination, recounting the civil rights march led by Martin Luther King, Jr., in Philadelphia. Held on June 21, 1966, the march from Independence Quarters, a large black neighborhood west of the railroad, to the… Read More ›

• First Ever MissPres Architectural Word of the Week: Abacus

  By Thomas Rosell on January 13, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  How many times have you looked at a building and said “What is that thing called? The one thingy above the dew-dad, next to the whats it.” Well if you’re me the answer is a lot! So after reading Malvaney’s… Read More ›

• Tanks for the Memories -or- Travelling by Tank in Mississippi

  By Thomas Rosell on January 12, 2012 • ( 13 )

  

  Last month we finished Frank Brooks’ book Travelling by Trolley in Mississippi, our chapter-a-week Thursday feature for most of the late summer and fall. Recently in response to those posts, reader Leroy W. Demery Jr. has been sharing some of… Read More ›

• When You Absolutely Positively Have to Know What’s a Volute?

  By ELMalvaney on January 11, 2012 • ( 15 )

  

  Recently I took a second look at the sizable number of architectural dictionaries sitting on my shelves, most within easy reach arm’s length of my computer desk. While it may seem that I know just the right architectural term for… Read More ›

• New Year’s Resolutions for Preservation: 2012

  By Thomas Rosell on January 10, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Now that every other visual, print, and digital media outlet in the universe has bombarded us with New Years Resolution lists for 2012, I thought it might be prime time to share mine.  I swear I came up with this… Read More ›

• Round the Blogosphere 1-8-2012

  By ELMalvaney on January 9, 2012 • ( 3 )

  As I was writing the date, I realized that if you add 8 and 12 you get 20, so I wanted to be sure to share that little bit of math nerdery with you this lovely Monday morning. JRGordon searched… Read More ›

• Going Inside: Port Gibson’s First Presbyterian

  By ELMalvaney on January 6, 2012 • ( 16 )

  

  We’ve all heard about the Hand Pointing To Heaven that tops the steeple of Port Gibson’s First Presbyterian Church and most of have probably seen it while driving down Church Street, but the interior of the church is worth looking… Read More ›

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