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• New Grant Program for Civil Rights Sites

  By ELMalvaney on February 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  In case you haven’t seen this post on the MDAH website, they are announcing a bricks-and-mortar grant program for civil rights sites. As you may recall, a few weeks ago W. White ran a very helpful summary list of the… Read More ›

• Round the Blogosphere 2-14-2011

  By ELMalvaney on February 14, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  In case you missed the significance of the date in today’s title, it is indeed Valentine’s Day. If you forgot, you still have a chance to recover and to pretend you had been planning a surprise all along. The blogosphere… Read More ›

• Vote for your favorite Gulf Coast places

  By ELMalvaney on February 11, 2011 • ( 19 )

  Well we’ve had a week off from polling, but if we’re going to build a list of 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die, we need to keep at it. Last week we finished off the Natchez poll, and… Read More ›

• Oxford Film Festival & Pruitt Igoe

  By Thomas Rosell on February 10, 2011 • ( 10 )

  

  The Oxford Film Festival is this weekend!  A lot of the films look great though one that stands out is The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History.

• Reflecting on the Old Capitol

  By ELMalvaney on February 9, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  Yesterday was the second anniversary of Preservation in Mississippi, but in keeping with the tradition I began inadvertently last year, we will celebrate that grand occasion today instead. Since the very first post on MissPres–typed out on a whim before… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 2-8-2011

  By JRGordon on February 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m hoping the groundhog was right about an “early spring” – I’m not a fan of the ice and cold.  Plus, as it warms up, we’ll all have more chances to… Read More ›

• Natchez Poll Results

  By ELMalvaney on February 7, 2011 • ( 9 )

  As advertised, the Natchez area poll closed at midnight on Friday, giving us our first completed poll in the quest to build a list of 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die. Below is the final tally for the… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: Della’s Tourist Court, Brookhaven

  By ELMalvaney on February 4, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past. “Stayed here Thursday night, June 7, 1956.”

• Vacation Postcards: Corona Plaza Motel, Corinth

  By ELMalvaney on February 3, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

• Vacation Postcards: Bill Will Motel, Canton

  By ELMalvaney on February 2, 2011 • ( 12 )

  

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

• A Nerdy Milestone

  By ELMalvaney on February 1, 2011 • ( 7 )

  

  I had really hoped to catch a screenshot when we hit 100,000 views on the dot, but I missed it entirely. Oh well, that’s what vacation is for. Maybe the next 100,000 won’t take 2 years.

• Vacation Postcards: Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts, Gulfport

  By ELMalvaney on February 1, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

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

• MissPres News Roundup 1-31-2011

  By JRGordon on January 31, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  Wow!  I can’t believe that we’re already at the end of January.  Here’s a look at the news since our last round-up: Usually, we keep things focused on Mississippi preservation news, but a big story out of Virginia deserves a… Read More ›

• Checkin’ in on the Natchez poll

  By ELMalvaney on January 28, 2011 • ( 5 )

  Well, halfway through our two-week polling period for the Natchez region, it’s time to check in on where things stand. With 641 votes case, not surprisingly, Longwood is out on top, but only just above Windsor Ruins. Check out where… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, Sept 1963: Calvary Baptist Church, Meridian

  By ELMalvaney on January 27, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  The featured article in Mississippi Architect’s September 1963 issue is Calvary Baptist Church in Meridian. Calvary is still going strong it appears, and you can see a color picture of the interior and those long thin stained glass windows on… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, “Engineers and Architecture”

  By ELMalvaney on January 26, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s been a while since we posted another volume of the Mississippi Architect, originally published from March 1963 through March 1965. Each volume contains a brief editorial, usually from Jackson architect Bob Henry, an article about a recent Mississippi building… Read More ›

• Biloxi Trolley Line Routes

  By Thomas Rosell on January 25, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  Just by luck, only a few weeks after the Jackson Streetcar map appeared on MissPres, the City of Biloxi Public Works Department has created a map that shows the route of old trolley lines.  The idea of the map is… Read More ›

• Round the Blogosphere 1-24-2011

  By ELMalvaney on January 24, 2011 • ( 3 )

  To start off your week, get your favorite hot beverage and settle down for a romp round the blogosphere. (And if you haven’t yet, take some time to vote for your favorite places in the Natchez area.) Mississippi bloggers have… Read More ›

• 101 MissPlaces–Vote Early, Vote Often for the Natchez District

  By ELMalvaney on January 21, 2011 • ( 21 )

  Well, it took us a while, but here at MissPres, we’ve been working busily behind the scenes to move to the next level in our quest to create a list of 101 Mississippi Places You Should See Before You Die…. Read More ›

• Fires Take Their Toll

  By ELMalvaney on January 20, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  Yesterday we received the sad news that two adjacent buildings in downtown Biloxi’s small historic district burned down late Tuesday night. Included in the loss was Spanish Trail Books, one of Mississippi’s independent bookstores and a place that I regularly… Read More ›

• Blink Twice and Arlington Might Vanish…

  By Tom Barnes on January 19, 2011 • ( 41 )

  

  A disastrous fire swept through the attic story of Arlington on September 17th, 2002. The roof was repaired the following year and it was thought that the eventual restoration of the house would follow, if not immediately, then within a… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 1-18-2011

  By JRGordon on January 18, 2011 • ( 5 )

  Although this roundup isn’t on our typical day, there’s been enough news this week to go ahead and post one this week. We’ll start with a story that most of you probably already know about – especially if you watched… Read More ›

• MLK in Hattiesburg

  By ELMalvaney on January 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

• Calling all Modernist Mississippi Shutterbugs!

  By ELMalvaney on January 14, 2011 • ( 12 )

  Thanks to several eagle-eyed MissPresers who sent me the link to the article in the Clarion-Ledger yesterday, “Photos sought of modern Mississippi architecture for exhibit“: The American Institute of Architects Mississippi Chapter is issuing an open call for photographic submissions… Read More ›

• Harry N. Austin, classic and unclassic Millsaps College

  By ELMalvaney on January 13, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  As you may recall from the post a few weeks back about Jackson architect Harry N. Austin, Austin moved to Jackson from Massachusetts, possibly already a friend of the Millsaps family, and married Mary Buie, the niece of Major Millsaps…. Read More ›

• Revisionist history from a blue-haired lady in 1937

  By ELMalvaney on January 12, 2011 • ( 5 )

  

  Over the holidays, I had a chance to take a couple of days and head over to the state archives to look at some collections an archivist friend had mentioned a while back (always have archivists friends–they know the most… Read More ›

• Civil Rights Sites from Charles E. Cobb Jr.’s “On the Road to Freedom”

  By W. White on January 11, 2011 • ( 7 )

  

  I mentioned in the comments section for “Another Vanishing Civil Rights Landmark” that there was a book (that I could not think of at the time) that has a list of various Mississippi Civil Rights Movement sites. That book is… Read More ›

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