Preservation in Mississippi

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• Old Glory

  By Thomas Rosell on July 4, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  The Peoples Bank of Biloxi, Biloxi Miss. Built 1913-1914

• Books about The City

  By ELMalvaney on July 2, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Excellent review of books about the city and urbanism in the New Yorker.

• Linking Around for the Long Weekend

  By ELMalvaney on July 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Technically this isn’t a blog roundup post, since it covers mostly out-of-state newspaper and other journalistic sources, so just consider it a way to catch up on some interesting reading during your long weekend. Here’s a story from Architectural Record… Read More ›

• Churchly Ionic German Doric with English Buttresses Style? Um . . .

  By ELMalvaney on June 30, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  As you may recall, I’ve been spending my rare and valuable-only-to-me spare time in the microfilm version of the Vicksburg Evening Post at MDAH, so I might be bugging y’all with quotes from one-hundred-year old articles from time to time…. Read More ›

• Capitol Street Methodist Is Falling Down

  By ELMalvaney on June 29, 2011 • ( 31 )

  

  Once it was a landmark of growth and progress, only the second Methodist congregation in Jackson, just across the railroad tracks in the fashionable new suburban area being laid out on West Capitol Street. Then it became the symbol of… Read More ›

• Screen Doors: Not Just a Luxury Anymore

  By ELMalvaney on June 28, 2011 • ( 7 )

  

  This year during Pilgrimage season, I headed over to Vicksburg to see some of the early 20th-century houses they have on tour as a contrast to the more antebellum focus in Natchez and Columbus. Two of the most fabulous houses… Read More ›

• 101 MissPres Places: East/Central Mississippi Poll Results

  By ELMalvaney on June 27, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  The results for the East/Central Mississippi poll are in, and it was down to the wire between the modernist Meridianites and the antebellum Raymondonians to see who would edge the other out. At the halfway point, Chris Risher, Sr.’s Vise… Read More ›

• I Feel a Change Comin’ On

  By ELMalvaney on June 24, 2011 • ( 14 )

  If you check back in to MissPres this weekend, you might see things in disarray, mattresses up against the wall, boxes laying around, people arguing about the texture of the wallpaper, etc. Don’t be alarmed, all your favorite posts full… Read More ›

• Fins to the left, Fins to the right . . .

  By ELMalvaney on June 24, 2011 • ( 6 )

  

  Our across-the-River friend Blake Wintory from Lakeport Plantation sent me this screenshot of Jackson’s Petroleum Building as seen in the recent PBS American Experience documentary “Freedom Riders.” This was in response to the last paragraph in my post on the… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, January 1964: Hattiesburg Clinic

  By ELMalvaney on June 23, 2011 • ( 8 )

  

  Mississippi Architect’s January 1964 featured Mississippi building introduces us to a Hattiesburg architect we’ve mentioned only in passing here on MissPres, Stephen H. Blair (1926-1993). I don’t know much about Blair, but USM’s archives contains a collection of his drawings,… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, January 1964: Computer Designed Architecture?

  By ELMalvaney on June 22, 2011 • ( 4 )

  The January 1964 editorial “Computer Designed Architecture” in Mississippi Architect is fun to read in the same way that looking at pictures from old World’s Fairs (for instance, GM’s Futurama exhibit at the 1939 fair or its Tomorrow-land exhibit in… Read More ›

• Flood Recedes in Rodney

  By ELMalvaney on June 21, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  Last winter, before any thought of Spring flooding had occurred, I happened upon a Facebook page for Historic Rodney that had an album of historic photos from the 1927 Flood in that now almost-abandoned town. The first thing that strikes you… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-20-2011

  By JRGordon on June 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  If you missed it on Friday, Malvaney posted the Mid-way results of the East/Central Mississippi Poll – which you can vote on here if you haven’t already done so.  You also still have time to support Tishamingo County in the… Read More ›

• Halfway through the East/Central Mississippi Poll: Modernists Come Out Swinging

  By ELMalvaney on June 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  With 316 votes in after one week, our latest 101 MissPlaces poll covering East/Central Mississippi has a Modernist skyscraper by Meridian architect Chris Risher, Sr. well out in front with 15% of the votes. Comparing vote totals at the halfway point (a hazardous… Read More ›

• Two Billboards I Like

  By ELMalvaney on June 16, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Lately, in spite of the heat, I’ve been wandering to and fro through the Magnolia State, as I am wont to do, and I’ve seen two billboards on an architectural theme that have brought a smile to my face. Both… Read More ›

• Beach Boulevard at 45 MPH (or was it 55?)

  By ELMalvaney on June 15, 2011 • ( 5 )

  

  I happened to be a passenger in a van traveling along Beach Boulevard from Ocean Springs to Gulfport last week, and while I occasionally have taken pictures while driving, I can now definitively say that it’s much easier to do… Read More ›

• French Merci Train Car Moves On Down the Line

  By JRGordon on June 14, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Go by the Old Capitol or the War Memorial, and you will notice a change around the parking area.  I personally cannot remember a visit to the area (either to the Old Capitol or the the Archives) when the train… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-13-2011

  By JRGordon on June 13, 2011 • ( 4 )

  Wow – it’s been about a month since our last Round-up.  Before we delve into catching up on the news, don’t forget to vote in the latest 101 Places poll and in the National Trust’s “This Place Matters Community Challenge”… Read More ›

• 101 MissPres Places: East/Central Mississippi Poll

  By ELMalvaney on June 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  After yet another 7th inning stretch in our polling for the 101 Mississippi Places list, we’re back into it with a chance to vote for your favorite places in the East Mississippi region. To avoid a huge glut in the… Read More ›

• Rumblings and Bumblings from Meridian

  By ELMalvaney on June 9, 2011 • ( 13 )

  

  I can’t find anything about this on the Meridian Star site (I don’t think they put all their articles online though), but I’ve heard from a couple of sources that after what appears to me to be a study with… Read More ›

• Internet Archive Brings Us Picturesque Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on June 8, 2011 • ( 10 )

  

  Catching up on my e-mails after my internet-less vacation, I found one from MissPreser Charles Bell, who passed on a link to a booklet I’ve been trying to buy with no success, Picturesque Vicksburg: A Description of the Resources and… Read More ›

• Hopeful Update on Matty Hersee

  By ELMalvaney on June 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  A real vacation, in my opinion, does not include the internet or e-mail, so last week I tried to stick to my philosophical beliefs and avoid the digital world. It helped that the hotel charged $15/day for internet access and… Read More ›

• National Trust “This Place Matters Community Challenge”

  By JRGordon on June 6, 2011 • ( 1 )

  We’ll give everyone one more “light post” day to ease back from the MissPres vacation last week. On June 1, The National Trust for Historic Preservation opened voting in their 2011 This Place Matters Community Challenge.  This year, they are… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: Crystal Lake, Newton

  By ELMalvaney on June 3, 2011 • ( 9 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past. March 7, 1955: “We are having nice weather. No snow here now. Grandma”

• Vacation Postcards: Marshall Motel, West Point

  By ELMalvaney on June 2, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past. “Got here about 10:00 p.m. Left Pensacola at 2:00 p.m. Colder here. Love, Margarette”

• Vacation Postcards: Miramar Hotel, Pass Christian

  By ELMalvaney on June 1, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• Vacation Postcards: Motel Dixiana, Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on May 31, 2011 • ( 5 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

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