Preservation in Mississippi

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• I said it was photogenic . . .

  By ELMalvaney on July 20, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  In Tuesday’s post about the grant to put a new roof on the New Hope Baptist Church in Estill, I remarked that the towered Gothic Revival building overlooking Deer Creek is one of Mississippi’s photogenic landmarks, and Suzassippi agreed. Then… Read More ›

• Two Mississippi Hill-Burton Clinics in Architectural Record

  By ELMalvaney on July 19, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Two Mississippi health clinics funded under the Hill-Burton program were published in the October 1951 issue of Architectural Record, a high honor for our state, which is still often overlooked in the architectural world. The two-page spread focused attention on… Read More ›

• Suzassippi’s Mississippi: Wilson Banking Company of Greenwood

  By Suzassippi on July 18, 2018 • ( 27 )

  

  The Delta Daily News reported in March 2018 about the planned reopening of the former Wilson Banking Company building–as a bank!  On my recent first visit to downtown Greenwood, I stumbled across this beautiful 1913 Beaux Arts building designed by architect Frank… Read More ›

• Estill Church Among Delta National Heritage Grantees

  By ELMalvaney on July 17, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  The Delta National Heritage Area has announced its 2018 grant awards, and one of the Delta’s most photogenic country churches, New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Estill, has received money for an important bricks-and-mortar preservation project. The clapboard church with… Read More ›

• Head Out on the Highway: Old Spanish Trail, 1941

  By ELMalvaney on July 12, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Today’s post is the second in our reprint of the 1941 publication Mississippi Tourist Guide, which focused on the many attractions along Mississippi’s newly paved highways. (Check out the Intro if you missed it.) THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL (U.S. 90)… Read More ›

• Ralph Lembo’s Music Store: Early Blues in Itta Bena

  By Suzassippi on July 11, 2018 • ( 13 )

  

  Ralph Lembo was an Italian immigrant who settled in Itta Bena.  He turned 21 in 1918 and was one of 32 to register for military service, as required, on August 24, 1918, but he apparently was not called up to… Read More ›

• Some preservation changes at MDAH

  By ELMalvaney on July 9, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  As you may have seen in a few news articles around the state (such as Rufus Ward’s tribute in the Commercial Dispatch) and here on MissPres, Mississippi preservationist Ken P’Pool is retiring from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History after… Read More ›

• Happy 130th Birthday, N.W. Overstreet!

  By Thomas Rosell on July 4, 2018 • ( 11 )

  

  Happy Birthday, N.W. Overstreet!  Just like Yankee Doodle Dandy, he was born on the 4th of July.  Today would be N.W. Overstreet’s 130th birthday, as he was born on July 4th, 1888.  Overstreet has left an indelible imprint all across… Read More ›

• Mid-Century Mississippi: Jackson’s Bailey Junior High School

  By ELMalvaney on June 28, 2018 • ( 19 )

  

  This article from the March 14, 1937 issue of the Clarion-Ledger manages an in-depth description of Jackson’s iconic Art Moderne school without ever mentioning its architects, N.W. Overstreet and A.H. Town of Jackson. I also realized for the first time,… Read More ›

• I.T. Montgomery House added to National Trust Endangered List

  By ELMalvaney on June 27, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its annual “America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places” for 2018 yesterday, and for only the sixth time in 31 years, a Mississippi site has made the list. The Isaiah T. Montgomery House in… Read More ›

• What Lowndes County Has Done to Columbus’s Lipscomb House

  By ELMalvaney on June 26, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  If you’ve been reading MissPres for the last 6 months or so, you’ll be familiar with the sad saga of the Lipscomb House, a sweet 1880s Queen Anne cottage listed on the National Register as part of the Columbus Central… Read More ›

• Mississippi Streets: 1950s Greenville

  By ELMalvaney on June 22, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  See other Mississippi streets . . .

• Architect Pics: Elaine Carbrey

  By Thomas Rosell on June 21, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  While searching newspaper archives for architecture awards from between 1965-1978 for our Mississippi’s Best Buildings series, I ran across an award to a student from Columbia, Mississippi who, in 1966, was studying at LSU. Architecture Award — Elaine Virginia Carbrey, daughter… Read More ›

• Head out on the highway: Mississippi Tourist Guide, 1941

  By ELMalvaney on June 20, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Although it seems like heading out on the highway has been a part of American life forever, in fact, it was only in the 1930s that a system of paved roads made it easy for average middle-class people to venture… Read More ›

• HABS in Mississippi: Gwin House, Lexington

  By ELMalvaney on June 14, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  The Gwin House in Lexington is no longer standing and is somewhat of a mystery to me. The MDAH Historic Resources Database doesn’t have much to say about the two-story I-house with its one-story pedimented portico, but it does give… Read More ›

• “Southern Architecture Today” in 1965

  By ELMalvaney on June 13, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  Cruising around the 1965 Clarion-Ledger, I came across this article that I thought was too good not to share, not only because of the information in the text about the state of Mississippi (and Louisiana and Arkansas) architecture in 1965, but… Read More ›

• MHT’s 2018 Heritage Awards Announced

  By ELMalvaney on June 12, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  From our friends at the Mississippi Heritage Trust: Mississippi Heritage Trust Recognizes 43 Outstanding Preservation Victories and Heroes at 2018 Heritage Awards Celebration It was standing room only on Thursday, June 7, as preservationists from around the state gathered at… Read More ›

• Hill-Burton Before and After: Kemper County Hospital

  By ELMalvaney on June 6, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  This week’s Hill-Burton hospital, located over in the tiny county seat of DeKalb, had this eye-catching rendering in New Hospitals and Health Departments for Mississippi, which was published by the Mississippi Commission on Hospital Care around 1950. As you may remember,… Read More ›

• Holly Springs landmark damaged in storm

  By ELMalvaney on June 4, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  We received word from our friends at Preserve Marshall County and Holly Springs on Sunday that Chalmer’s Institute, an ongoing restoration project, was badly damaged in a storm that passed through Holly Springs on Saturday evening. Stay tuned to PMCHS’s… Read More ›

• Friday Film: Taborian Hospital, Mound Bayou

  By ELMalvaney on June 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Friday Film: Taborian Hospital

• Columbus Marble Works and its architectural culls

  By ELMalvaney on May 31, 2018 • ( 9 )

  

  It’s an interesting coincidence that this post about the Columbus Marble Works is running the week of Memorial Day, not only because Columbus is a contender as having held the first Decoration Day in 1866, a holiday that later became… Read More ›

• Tournalayer House in Vicksburg

  By Thomas Rosell on May 30, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  A friend sent me this clipping from the Emporia Kansas Gazette, which shows a house made by the Tournalayer machine that was manufactured by LeTourneau. GIANT MACHINE POURS HOUSES LIKE THIS — Strolling up the walk for an inspection visit, a GI… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-29-2018

  By Thomas Rosell on May 29, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Let’s jump right into today’s roundup.

• Memorial Day 2018

  By ELMalvaney on May 28, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Other Memorial Day posts . . .

• In military lingo, MRBM = NHCEL

  By ELMalvaney on May 24, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Congratulations to the intrepid Friends of the Mississippi River Basin Model in Jackson, who received the designation of National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark from the American Society of Civil Engineers at a ceremony earlier this week!

• Mississippi’s Best Buildings of 1975

  By Thomas Rosell on May 23, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  This post is a follow up to a series begun a few weeks back that stimulated quite a bit of conversation about the appreciation of buildings from the late 1960s and early 1970s that are now reaching the golden fifty-year mark… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-22-2018

  By Thomas Rosell on May 22, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Even thought it doesn’t look inviting, let’s jump right into today’s roundup.  It is to hot already for this much bad news.  To hopefully put everyone in a better mood, I’ve decided to share the bad news first and end with the good news stories.

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