Preservation in Mississippi

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• Time Will Not Dim . . .

  By ELMalvaney on May 30, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

• Lost Mississippi: Jacksonian Highway Hotel/Lefleurs Restaurant

  By Tom Barnes on May 27, 2011 • ( 26 )

  

  The Jacksonian Highway Hotel was built at 4800 Highway 51 North (later Interstate 55 North), in an area only just beginning to blossom with commercial development. Construction was begun in April 1955. George Wilkinson and his partners at Crestline Development (later known as the Athens Investment Company) set out to build something more than just another motel.

• Critiquing the New Capitol Designs–Bernard Green’s unofficial opinion

  By ELMalvaney on May 26, 2011 • ( 0 )

  The last two posts (Part 1 and Part 2) told us Bernard Green’s official opinion about the 14 proposals for the design of the New Capitol in 1900. To wrap up this series, today we see Green’s informal advice to… Read More ›

• Critiquing the New Capitol Designs (1900)–Part 2

  By ELMalvaney on May 25, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Second in our series of transcripts from the State House Commission’s minutes of 1900, in which Washington DC expert Bernard Green examines the 14 proposed designs for the New Capitol and lends his experience to the Commission. Today Green gets… Read More ›

• From the Archives: Critiquing the New Capitol Designs (1900)

  By ELMalvaney on May 24, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  Today will start a three-part series highlighting the process of choosing an architect’s designs for the New Capitol. We all know how it ends, but the getting there is part of the fun. The series comes straight from the archives,… Read More ›

• Oxford/Holly Springs Poll Results

  By ELMalvaney on May 23, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  The Oxford/Holly Springs area poll, our latest poll in the run-up for our 101 Mississippi Places list, ended exactly at midnight on Friday, in a rare display of paying attention on my part. We almost made 1000 votes, which puts… Read More ›

• At the end of a long week

  By ELMalvaney on May 20, 2011 • ( 2 )

  I don’t have much to say other than the Oxford/Holly Springs poll ends tonight around midnight, depending on how late I stay up, so if you haven’t voted or if you know someone from Holly Springs who hasn’t voted (judging… Read More ›

• Architectural Twins: One Happy, One Glowering

  By ELMalvaney on May 19, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  Tuesday’s post about the Trailways station and the former Petroleum building across that street that’s been transformed into what some have called a Darth Vader Building reminded me of a similar but smaller scale transformation to a building here in… Read More ›

• Lighthouse Churches, By Land and By Sea

  By ELMalvaney on May 18, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  I drive Highway 49 south of Jackson often. One of the landmarks for this otherwise fairly boring stretch between Jackson and Hattiesburg is the Jesus Name Tabernacle near Florence (click on the link to hear a rousing gospel chorus), which… Read More ›

• Demolishing History Before It Becomes Historic

  By ELMalvaney on May 17, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  Those of you who watched last night’s excellent and evocative PBS American Experience documentary “Freedom Riders” saw clips of the riders walking into Jackson’s Tri-State Trailways station and then walking almost right back out into the police wagon to be… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-15-2011

  By JRGordon on May 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  It’s a shame that with such nice temperatures we have a lot of bad news floating around.  Luckily, Malvaney took two of the stories from me the other day with the post about the demolitions in Jackson and Columbus, so… Read More ›

• Halfway Through the Oxford/Holly Springs Poll

  By ELMalvaney on May 13, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  As is traditional at the halfway point of the regional polls for inclusion in our 101 Mississippi Places, we like to take a peek at where things stand. After one week in our poll of the north-central region and with… Read More ›

• Local People, this is what we think of your sacrifice

  By ELMalvaney on May 12, 2011 • ( 14 )

  

  Yesterday, I passed by the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in downtown Jackson and saw that demolition of the Agriculture Building, one of the pair of barrel-vaulted buildings at the west side of the fairgrounds, was well underway. As you might recall… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, December 1963: Neshoba General Hospital

  By ELMalvaney on May 11, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  Today and tomorrow, we’ll look at a couple of articles from the December 1963 issue of Mississippi Architect, a monthly publication undertaken by the Mississippi chapter of the AIA from March 1963 through March 1965. If you recall, the posting… Read More ›

• Two feet high and risin’

  By ELMalvaney on May 10, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  I had some other posts ready for this week, but yesterday I found myself obsessively checking around on various websites to see where the Mississippi River’s water was, and this brought to mind Johnny Cash’s song about the 1937 Flood,… Read More ›

• Mississippi River Flooding Update

  By JRGordon on May 9, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  Preservation related news around Mississippi was light since our last round-up, which would normally mean Malvaney would catch us all up on the blogosphere.  Instead, however, one of our friends at MDAH, Vicki Myers, is giving us at MissPres some… Read More ›

• Vote in the Oxford/Holly Springs Area Poll!

  By ELMalvaney on May 6, 2011 • ( 3 )

  We took a break during April from the polling for the 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die list, but now that it’s May, it’s time to get back into it. As a reminder of where we’ve been, we’ve… Read More ›

• Builders pics: William J. McGee

  By ELMalvaney on May 5, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  I found both of these obituaries for William J. McGee, in my recent productive search through the Gill Collection at MDAH (“Pioneer Club Scrapbooks,” vol 3 of 3). They contain in a few paragraphs a humanizing portrait of the builder… Read More ›

• Two Contests, Cash Available!

  By ELMalvaney on May 4, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Let’s take a break from the bad news of late and look at two contests recently announced. First, the National Park Service’s NHL Photo Contest on Flickr–so far no Mississippi NHL has won a place in the top group in… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-3-2011

  By JRGordon on May 3, 2011 • ( 4 )

  The news was not fun to read this week.  Reports from the damage of the tornadoes in Mississippi (and Alabama of course) are still coming in, with new information added each day.  We’ll keep on it and report what we… Read More ›

• Rolling Fork’s Amazing Red Barn Collapses

  By ELMalvaney on May 2, 2011 • ( 13 )

  

  Sometime late Friday night or early Saturday, the beautiful, amazing structure on Highway 61 on the south side of Rolling Fork, known affectionately as “The Red Barn,” collapsed. The cause is not known, but the U.S. Corps of Engineers, owners… Read More ›

• The All-New 2011 10 Most Endangered Places List

  By ELMalvaney on April 29, 2011 • ( 23 )

  

  You heard it here first (or second if you attended MHT’s Unveiling Party last night at Jackson’s Duling School, right in the heart of my funky Fondren neighborhood). As usual, I did not win any of the artwork I bid on,… Read More ›

• Abandoned Mississippi: First Christian Church, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on April 28, 2011 • ( 40 )

  

  Jackson’s First Christian Church doesn’t exactly fit in with some of our other Abandoned Mississippi sites. It doesn’t sit crumbling, left alone in the woods or out in a field, far from the city. From the outside, in fact, the… Read More ›

• Touring River Road in the Springtime

  By ELMalvaney on April 27, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  While in New Orleans, I saw more than just the abandoned Charity Hospital and Harper manhole covers. In fact, I toured for the first time a few properties on the famed River Road, once lined with grand plantation houses all… Read More ›

• They Fought the Feds and the Feds Won

  By ELMalvaney on April 26, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit in on a lunchtime roundtable discussion at the Society of Architectural Historians meeting hosted by the Louisiana chapter of the Modernist preservation group DOCOMOMO (a slightly difficult but fun-to-say… Read More ›

• 2011 CLG Grants Announced

  By ELMalvaney on April 25, 2011 • ( 6 )

  I had a quiet Easter and enjoyed getting outside in the beautiful late Spring weather. Take advantage of it while it lasts, because it won’t last much longer. Over the weekend, I checked in on the MDAH website and found… Read More ›

• Easter 2011

  By ELMalvaney on April 22, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

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