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• MissPres News Roundup 1-10-2011

  By JRGordon on January 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Happy New Year, MissPres, and happy snow day to most of the state!  Here’s the new stories that wrapped up 2010 and kicked off 2011. A lot of news from around the Coast in the past few weeks.  As Malvaney… Read More ›

• Events for Deep Mid-Winter

  By ELMalvaney on January 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Now that we’ve exited the holidays and have entered what passes for deep mid-winter in Mississippi, here are a few events to liven up the next couple of months. Obviously, none of us can go to all these interesting classes… Read More ›

• Lost Mississippi: Malmaison

  By ELMalvaney on January 6, 2011 • ( 12 )

  

  Last week’s look back at the buildings we lost in 2010 reminded me of landmarks lost in other years. I haven’t done a Lost Mississippi post in a while because we already have a wealth of books covering our lost… Read More ›

• Found: A Streetcar Map!

  By ELMalvaney on January 5, 2011 • ( 12 )

  

  Remember that post a while back about streetcars and how they came and went in Mississippi with hardly any physical reminders or even decent maps to show where they had been? Well, over the holidays, I picked up a publication… Read More ›

• A glance at that amazing plasterwork

  By ELMalvaney on January 4, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  I hope y’all had a safe and relaxing New Year and were unaffected by the bad storms New Year’s Eve. We didn’t have any trees down in our neighborhood, but when I looked outside around 11 PM, I saw a… Read More ›

• Looking Back at 2010

  By ELMalvaney on January 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  In keeping with the tradition we started last January 1, let’s take a look back at the development of MissPres in 2010. This year, we added four new authors, beginning with W. White in March, Jack Elliott in May, Thomas… Read More ›

• National Register 2010, Part 2

  By ELMalvaney on December 31, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  Let’s finish out the year by finishing up the list of Mississippi places that were awarded a place on the National Register. The list, summaries, and photos are all provided by the Historic Preservation Division of MDAH, specifically Bill Gatlin,… Read More ›

• National Register 2010, Part 1

  By ELMalvaney on December 30, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  To finish off our end-of-the-year list series for the week, today and tomorrow we’ll cover the National Register listings, fourteen in all. Since these are more text-heavy than the Mississippi Landmark or demolition lists, I’m splitting this into two posts,… Read More ›

• Mississippi Landmarks 2010

  By ELMalvaney on December 29, 2010 • ( 7 )

  

  Our end-of-year series of lists continues today, with a recounting of the newly designated Mississippi Landmarks in the state. The Mississippi Landmark designation is conferred by the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, and the… Read More ›

• For Auld Lang Syne: Friends We Lost in 2010

  By ELMalvaney on December 28, 2010 • ( 9 )

  

  It’s traditional here on MissPres to use the relatively quiet week between Christmas and New Years to look back over the events of the year, both good and bad. Hopefully this will help us take stock and get ready for… Read More ›

• Last Chance

  By ELMalvaney on December 27, 2010 • ( 6 )

  This week will be the last time you’ll be able to add important places to our preliminary list of 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die. I think I’ve kept up with the previous suggestions on our Master List… Read More ›

• Christmas in Dixie

  By ELMalvaney on December 24, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  Ok, I know it’s not snowing in the pines or in the magnolias just at this moment, but you can still have a white Christmas courtesy of a few pictures from the Great Mississippi Snow of February 2010. Merry Christmas,… Read More ›

• Christmas Decorations: Bethlehem Tree, MMA

  By ELMalvaney on December 23, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  If you’re in Jackson, make sure to stop in at the Mississippi Museum of Art and see the Bethlehem Tree. Jewell Younger Graeber of Marks, Mississippi, lovingly acquired the figures in this magnificent display over more than twenty years, in… Read More ›

• Christmas Decorations: Old Capitol(s)

  By ELMalvaney on December 22, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

• Christmas Decorations: New Capitol

  By ELMalvaney on December 21, 2010 • ( 5 )

  

  Since none of us actually want to work on blog posts this week, and I assume most of the MissPres universe is off cooking or wrapping or sipping hot chocolate, let’s take a little tour around some of our favorite… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 12-20-2010

  By JRGordon on December 20, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Holidays MissPres!  This will end up being the last Roundup this year – and it’s all pretty good this time.  Hopefully, any news that pops up the next two weeks will let the first roundup of the New Year… Read More ›

• Architectural Twins: Two Overstreet Churches

  By ELMalvaney on December 17, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  Here’s a little light fare for Friday. I can’t claim any credit for today’s post, as I came across images of these two buildings while reading David H. Sachs’ 1986 Ph.D. dissertation, The Work of Overstreet and Town: The Coming… Read More ›

• MiMo No Mo? The Sun-n-Sand in Downtown Jackson Needs Our Help

  By Tom Barnes on December 16, 2010 • ( 10 )

  

  When R.E. “Dumas” Milner opened the Sun-n-Sand in downtown Jackson in October 1960 the age of the shiny new “motor hotel” was in full swing. In spite of major renovations at Milner’s King Edward on West Capitol Street, Milner sensed… Read More ›

• History of Art in MS: Lauren Rogers Library and Museum

  By ELMalvaney on December 15, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  It’s time to check into our most recent Book Quotes series, the History of Art in Mississippi, published in 1929. Today’s segment, from the chapter on the architecture of public buildings, is devoted exclusively to the Lauren Rogers Museum in… Read More ›

• To New Orleans and Back

  By ELMalvaney on December 14, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  The old saying goes that the two largest cities in Mississippi are New Orleans and Memphis, and with that in mind, I took a quick trip down to New Orleans for the Preservation Resource Center’s 35th annual Holiday Home Tour…. Read More ›

• Round the Blogosphere 12-13-2010

  By ELMalvaney on December 13, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Blogs traditionally quiet down a bit between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but there’s been enough activity out there to warrant a look-see. Of course, MissPres has been where the action is, with suggestions flying in for our growing Must-See Mississippi Places…. Read More ›

• General Services Administration Historic Building Program

  By Thomas Rosell on December 10, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  The General Services Administration (or GSA) is the agency tasked with being the landlord for the Federal Government.  Established in 1949 they are responsible for construction of new Federal buildings, as well as maintaining many historic Federally owned structures.  The… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, August 1963: West End School, Meridian

  By ELMalvaney on December 9, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  The featured building in the August 1963 issue of Mississippi Architect is by R.B. Clopton, one of the Meridian Modernists who sometimes gets forgotten in the shadow of Chris Risher. I confess I don’t know much about Clopton except that… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, August 1963

  By ELMalvaney on December 8, 2010 • ( 7 )

  Today’s reprint of the editorial from Mississippi Architect’s August 1963 edition is especially interesting to me given some of the recent debates here on MissPres pitting Classicism against Modernism. As the tides of architectural styles rise and fall, many today… Read More ›

• Architect Pics: Harry N. Austin

  By ELMalvaney on December 7, 2010 • ( 7 )

  

  One architect who’s always been a bit of a mystery to me is Harry N. Austin. I should know more about him because he designed some great Classical landmarks around the state, including the Natchez City Hall, Bryant Hall at… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 12-6-2010

  By JRGordon on December 6, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  Brrrr . . . it’s cold outside.  Grab a cup of your favorite warm beverage and read the latest preservation news from around the state – OH, and don’t forget to weigh in on what buildings should be on the… Read More ›

• Help build a list of required Mississippi places

  By ELMalvaney on December 3, 2010 • ( 243 )

  After a recent post about the book 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die, W. White suggested that we answer the snub of having no Mississippi buildings included in the book by creating our own list, eliminating one zero… Read More ›

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