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• Update on Crumbling Capitol Street Methodist

  By ELMalvaney on July 25, 2011 • ( 0 )

  The West Jackson blog has an update on the Capitol Street Methodist Church and plans for its demolition.

• MissPres News Roundup 7-25-2011

  By JRGordon on July 25, 2011 • ( 2 )

  While we’ve been reading about Mound Bayou and playing our 8th Round of Name This Place, here’s what’s been going on in Preservation News around the state: First, news from the Dispatch in Columbus where the local commission is looking… Read More ›

• Name This Place 8.0 – And the winner is . . .

  By JRGordon on July 23, 2011 • ( 1 )

  The last image yesterday was of the 1917 Walthall County Courthouse in Tylertown designed by X.A. Kramer.  Martin Seigrist picked up all four points, but they only brought him up to second place. The new Name This Place Contest winner… Read More ›

• Destroying Modern Architecture?!

  By Thomas Rosell on July 23, 2011 • ( 2 )

  The Blog of the Preservation Research Office has an interesting post entitled “Destroying Modern Architecture in St. Louis” regarding the St. Louis Pruitt Igoe Housing Project among other St. Louis modern architecture icons.  The post discusses some of the issues… Read More ›

• Name This Place 8.5.2

  By JRGordon on July 22, 2011 • ( 7 )

  

  Martin Seigrist and Susan Allen split the 4 points on this morning’s place – which was J.R. Gordon’s 1903 Wilkinson County Courthouse in Woodville. One more detail shot to work out and later I’ll crown our winner!

• Name This Place 8.5.1

  By JRGordon on July 22, 2011 • ( 6 )

  

  Yesterday afternoon’s photo was of the Tippah County Courthouse in Ripley (correctly IDed by MartinSeigrist) which was designed by N.W. Overstreet (thanks SusanAllen) and built in 1928 (CRPIII). Here’s how the standings look going into this final day of competition… Read More ›

• Name This Place 8.4.2

  By JRGordon on July 21, 2011 • ( 6 )

  

  Susan Allen snagged another 4 points for knowing that this morning’s photo was the Simpson County Courthouse in Mendenhall (Andrew Bryan, 1907). This afternoon, I bring you another detail shot:

• Name This Place 8.4.1

  By JRGordon on July 21, 2011 • ( 10 )

  

  I let yesterday afternoon’s go long enough with no one getting the site from the interior shot.  This stained glass skylight is in the Copiah County Courthouse in Hazlehurst – a 1902 building by my namesake architect James Riely Gordon.  … Read More ›

• Name This Place 8.3.2

  By JRGordon on July 20, 2011 • ( 9 )

  

  The Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner by William Sharkey Hull threw SusanAllen a little because of some date confusion (1902? 1909? 1910?).  Since she cited sources on these and included the date I had in my mind for the “right”… Read More ›

• Name This Place 8.3.1

  By JRGordon on July 20, 2011 • ( 6 )

  

  Yesterday’s second post – a detail shot – didn’t fool CRPIII.  He correctly IDed it as the Alcorn County Courthouse in Corinth and knew it was a 1918 N.W. Overstreet building. Standings: CRPIII – 6 Theodore – 5 Suzassippi –… Read More ›

• Name This Place 8.2.2

  By JRGordon on July 19, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  Once again, I failed to stump everyone.  The 9 am entry today was the Jefferson Davis County Courthouse in Prentiss (W.S. Hull, 1907). Some interesting things happened on the scoring of that one though – Theodore IDed it as a… Read More ›

• Name this Place 8.2.1

  By JRGordon on July 19, 2011 • ( 12 )

  

  Yesterday, we started with the Humphreys County Courthouse in Belzoni (Kramer and Lindsley, 1921-22) for the 9 am post and the 1 pm post was the Attala County Courthouse in Kosciousko (correctly IDed by Belinda) built in 1897 (Thomas Rosell)… Read More ›

• Name This Place 8.1.2

  By JRGordon on July 18, 2011 • ( 6 )

  

  Theodore nailed this morning’s place – snagging all 4 points for knowing that it was the Humphreys County Courthouse in Belzoni by architects Kramer and Lindsley and built in 1921-22. It being Monday, I thought this morning’s was a “softball”… Read More ›

• Name This Place 8.1.1

  By JRGordon on July 18, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

• Name This Place 8.0

  By JRGordon on July 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  While our fearless leader is away, the rest of the MissPres World will play. That’s right, it’s time for the latest edition of Name This Place.  In the last edition, W. White and I tied for the honors of *Mississippi… Read More ›

• Positive Poll for Preservation

  By Thomas Rosell on July 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  The results of a readers poll run by The Journal of South Mississippi Business have been published in the current June 2011 issue. “Last month we asked our readers how Mississippi should observe the Civil War Sesquicentennial.  Almost 77 percent… Read More ›

• The Future of Mound Bayou: Saving the Legacy

  By Suzassippi on July 15, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  At the beginning of the week, I outlined the plans for the series about Mound Bayou, which just commemorated the 124th year of its founding.  The intent of the posts was to provide a brief history of the origins and… Read More ›

• Taborian Hospital and the Delta Health Center: The role of health care in social change and community empowerment

  By Suzassippi on July 14, 2011 • ( 9 )

  

  The Mississippi unit of the Sir Knights and Daughters of the Tabor was established in 1889 for the purpose of providing insurance–burial, life, and health care (Hodding Carter, Saturday Evening Post, February 23, 1946).  Membership in 1946 had increased to… Read More ›

• Bank of Mound Bayou: Charles Banks, A Chief Lieutenant

  By Suzassippi on July 13, 2011 • ( 16 )

  

  Charles Banks, already a successful businessman in Clarksdale, moved to Mound Bayou with the plan of greater accomplishments in the all-black town.  Banks quickly became involved in the community, both politically and economically, and worked with Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee.  Although… Read More ›

• The Jewel of the Delta: Mound Bayou, Mississippi

  By Suzassippi on July 12, 2011 • ( 53 )

  

  Our friend Susan James of Suzassippi’s Lottabusha County Chronicles blog will be taking a turn as a guest contributor on MissPres this week sharing her thoughts about the African-American town of Mound Bayou in the Delta. I know you’ll all enjoy learning… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 7-11-2011

  By JRGordon on July 11, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  I know our fearless leader is going on vacation, so there will be some guest posts this week and everyone should get ready for the next Name This Place Contest to start next week. With that, here’s the news: First,… Read More ›

• Old House Journal on Google Books

  By ELMalvaney on July 9, 2011 • ( 5 )

  

  Great news! Google Books has all Old House Journals online and easily searched, from the very earliest typed copies in 1975 to today!

• Bay St. Louis has a new Blues Trail Marker

  By Thomas Rosell on July 8, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  In Bay St. Louis there is a new Blues Trail Marker!  It’s so new no info about the marker is up on the Mississippi Blues Trail website as of this post.  But not to fear Preservation in Mississippi’s got ya… Read More ›

• USS Mississippi Past and Present

  By ELMalvaney on July 7, 2011 • ( 19 )

  

  If you’ve ever wandered about the grounds of the New Capitol, you might have spotted an odd sort of concrete planter on the northeast corner of the block (opposite from the much more grant Monument to the Women of the… Read More ›

• Arcadia’s Gulfport Book

  By ELMalvaney on July 6, 2011 • ( 3 )

  The Sun-Herald announces a new Images of America book for Gulfport.

• Hot Coffee Cooling?

  By ELMalvaney on July 6, 2011 • ( 5 )

  

  A while back I was going from Mt. Olive to Laurel, and decided to take the back road, County Road 532, which goes through the exotically named Covington County community of Hot Coffee. Hot Coffee isn’t an incorporated town, and… Read More ›

• Caillavet Street Bridge 1926-2011

  By Thomas Rosell on July 5, 2011 • ( 6 )

  

  It happened with so little fanfare that hardly anyone seemed to notice the demolition of the Caillavet Street bridge. This bridge once carried Caillavet Street to the north shore of back bay where Biloxi’s Caillavet Street became Central Avenue in… Read More ›

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