Preservation in Mississippi

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• Even More Spring Preservation Events Galore!

  By ELMalvaney on March 24, 2011 • ( 2 )

  In case you haven’t been keeping track of the Mississippi Heritage Trust’s home page, they’ve announced that this year’s unveiling of the 10 Most Endangered Places List will take place at a gala event on Thursday, April 28. This list… Read More ›

• Heroden Baptist Church

  By JRGordon on March 23, 2011 • ( 19 )

  

  Back in February, Malvaney ran this post talking about a new biography of architect W.A. Rayfield and included a list of buildings in Mississippi that he designed.  The last one on the list was Heroden Baptist Church in Vicksburg. The… Read More ›

• Round the Blogosphere 3-22-2011

  By ELMalvaney on March 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Hard as it is to believe, it’s been 5 weeks since our last look around at what’s going on in the blogosphere, so let’s get to it, shall we? Over on the online journal Places (which I wasn’t familiar with,… Read More ›

• Northeast Poll Results

  By ELMalvaney on March 21, 2011 • ( 5 )

  

  After a particularly slow start, the Northeast poll ended up with a total of 1,388 votes, which is the lowest total so far (Natchez had 4,502 and the Coast had 4,191). Not too bad considering, I guess. Perhaps not coincidentally,… Read More ›

• Giving Credit Where Credit May or May Not Be Due (see relevant regulation[s])

  By ELMalvaney on March 18, 2011 • ( 7 )

  

  Last week, Tom Freeland posted a picture of the cornerstone of Jackson’s new federal courthouse on his blog, NMissCommentor, in a post title “It’s 2010. Do you know who your president is?” In a detail I failed to catch when… Read More ›

• Photographer Joseph Molitor’s 1952 Trip to Mississippi

  By Thomas Rosell on March 17, 2011 • ( 22 )

  

  To follow up on yesterday’s post regarding Architectural Photographer Joseph W. Molitor, this week is the 59th anniversary of Joseph Molitor’s first trip to Mississippi and what better way to celebrate than to share the buildings he photographed? According to… Read More ›

• Architectural Photographer Joseph W. Molitor 1907-1996

  By Thomas Rosell on March 16, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  While reading Malvaney’s post regarding the Lyle Cashion Company building, one of the names mentioned in the article rang a bell: “Photos by Joseph W. Moliter.” Even though misspelled “Moliter” in the original article (it was in the original article… Read More ›

• A new do for Standard Oil

  By ELMalvaney on March 15, 2011 • ( 10 )

  

  Along with others in downtown Jackson, I’m sure, I’ve been watching the re-roof of the elegant Standard Oil Building across from the War Memorial Building for the last couple of months. One of the things you notice right off about… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-14-2011

  By JRGordon on March 14, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  I plan on some quality time on my patio, reading and enjoying the Spring weather, so I’m jumping right into this week’s news: For those of you keeping track of the calendar, you already know that Pilgrimage started this weekend… Read More ›

• Halfway through the Northeast Poll–is anybody out there?

  By ELMalvaney on March 11, 2011 • ( 6 )

  

  Well, there no use pussyfooting around–nobody seems interested in historic properties in the Northeast corner of our state. Either that, or the people who are interested, aren’t online. I guess possibly the properties in the poll aren’t inspiring to people,… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, Oct 1963: Lyle Cashion Company

  By ELMalvaney on March 10, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  A couple of years ago on a bright fall day, I walked down the section of Woodrow Wilson Avenue in Jackson between N. State and N. West Streets taking pictures of all the buildings on the north side, which date… Read More ›

• Tips on choosing an architect, and Eero Saarinen on the purpose of architecture

  By ELMalvaney on March 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  In the October 1963 issue of Mississippi Architect, Bob Henry’s editorial gives some helpful tips about choosing an architect that are still relevant today. Also worthy of note in this issue is a short clip from Eero Saarinen‘s December 1959… Read More ›

• Newspaper Clippings: Quaker Oats in the Delta

  By ELMalvaney on March 8, 2011 • ( 6 )

  

  A while back on a trip up into the Delta, I swung through the little town of Drew to check out the Lil’ Red Schoolhouse, and then drove up the street into downtown Drew. Drew, of course, is famous as… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-7-2011

  By JRGordon on March 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Time to take a break from pondering which Northeast MS buildings to vote for and catch up on the news.  I think it’s interesting that the Northeast is the focus of our current poll – especially since I was sent… Read More ›

• Northeast Poll is now open

  By ELMalvaney on March 4, 2011 • ( 7 )

  

  Now that we’ve covered the southwest corner and the southeast corner of the state, I think it’s time to move up to the northeast corner in our polling to create our 101 Places to See Before You Die. As in… Read More ›

• Meanwhile, at another court building up the street a ways . . .

  By ELMalvaney on March 3, 2011 • ( 9 )

  

  Yesterday’s post about the new federal courthouse got me thinking about courthouses and government buildings, and as it happens, another court building–this one for the Mississippi State Supreme Court–is also almost complete after a number of years of construction and… Read More ›

• Feds Gone Mad

  By ELMalvaney on March 2, 2011 • ( 17 )

  

  I don’t consider myself an architectural critic since I’m a historian, not an architect. I tend to look at buildings from a historical perspective and examine what they tell me about the people who built them rather than judging them… Read More ›

• Before and After: Motel Jo-Anna, Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on March 1, 2011 • ( 7 )

  

  Back a few weeks ago, the Urban Decay blog ran a post about the Johanna Motel in Vicksburg, which when kodachromeguy photographed it in 2004 had seen better days. The building was torn down only a few years later, so… Read More ›

• Coast Poll Results

  By ELMalvaney on February 28, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  On schedule, our Coast poll shut down around midnight Friday night, with a final total of 4,191 votes. This number is in the range of the Natchez total of 4,502 votes, so it’s good to see so much participation and… Read More ›

• Some awfully cool furniture

  By ELMalvaney on February 25, 2011 • ( 5 )

  

  Every time I go into the Mississippi Museum of Art, I end up at a glass case right beside the entrance wishing I had brought my camera. The case is called Vitra Design Museum Miniatures Collection and it features a… Read More ›

• Builder Pics: M.T. Lewman & Co.

  By ELMalvaney on February 24, 2011 • ( 9 )

  

  I supposed most of you have never heard of M.T. Lewman or his son H.L, or their building company, M.T. Lewman & Co. but if you’ve traveled around Mississippi or most any other Southern state, or looked at old postcards… Read More ›

• New Book on Black Architect W.A. Rayfield

  By ELMalvaney on February 23, 2011 • ( 9 )

  

  Last week, W. White listed some of the architects mentioned in The American School and University publications beginning in the late 1920s. Another architect listed in that same directory but not mentioned last week (because there were no Mississippi buildings… Read More ›

• Spring Pilgrimage Time

  By ELMalvaney on February 22, 2011 • ( 6 )

  JRGordon’s note about the pilgrimage in yesterday’s News Roundup reminded me that it is indeed about that time of year. In fact, with the crazily warm weather we’ve been having, it looks like the pilgrimages better get going soon before… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 2-21-2011

  By JRGordon on February 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  I think Spring has sprung in the Magnolia State in the past week or so – which makes me very happy.  If you’re like me, you’ve been enjoying the weather – but you may have missed some preservation news.  Never… Read More ›

• We’re halfway through the Coast poll. Do you know where your favorite place is?

  By ELMalvaney on February 18, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  After a fairly slow start, the Gulf Coast poll to help us build our list of 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die has taken off in the last few days, helped apparently by a large contingent of Hancock… Read More ›

• Out-of-State Architects and Mississippi Architecture from “The American School and University” 1928-1934

  By W. White on February 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Yesterday’s post, “Mississippi Architects and Architecture from ‘The American School and University’ 1928-1934,” covered Mississippi architects and the school buildings they designed in Mississippi (and occasionally elsewhere). Since architectural practices rarely stay inside state lines, today’s post contains the listings… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architects and Architecture from “The American School and University” 1928-1934

  By W. White on February 16, 2011 • ( 2 )

  From 1928, the first year the American School Publishing Corporation in New York began publishing The American School and University: A Yearbook Devoted to the Design, Construction, Equipment, Utilization, and Maintenance of Educational Buildings and Grounds, until the Sixth Annual Edition… Read More ›

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