Preservation in Mississippi

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• Celebration at Mt. Moriah

  By ELMalvaney on December 2, 2010 • ( 9 )

  

  Today’s guest post is brought to you by Jennifer Baughn, Chief Architectural Historian with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. I hope her report on the recent successful project at Mt. Moriah School will provide a brighter vision for… Read More ›

• Abandoned Mississippi: Southern Christian Institute

  By ELMalvaney on December 1, 2010 • ( 56 )

  

  Exit off I-20 at Edwards, wind around through town and out Highway 80 to the west, and soon enough you’ll come to the campus of the old Southern Christian Institute, more lately known as Bonner Campbell Institute. The college is… Read More ›

• Preservapedia

  By Thomas Rosell on November 30, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  No it’s not a website dedicated to the preservation of Encyclopedias or even to the preservation of various wiki web pages.  Preservapedia is “your open encyclopedia for heritage conservation.”  The point being that although the internet is an amazing tool,… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 11-29-2010

  By JRGordon on November 29, 2010 • ( 3 )

  

  I was traveling most of this last week, but thanks to the internet was able to keep tabs on preservation news. Believe it or not, December is approaching and so are holiday events in and around historic districts and buildings… Read More ›

• Thanksgiving 2010

  By ELMalvaney on November 25, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  It would be inappropriate to complain about an 80 degrees Thanksgiving, so I’ll just roll that into all the other things I’m thankful for this year: For the Craftsman style and the Art Deco style and for the Federal and… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: Woodland Court, Newton

  By ELMalvaney on November 24, 2010 • ( 3 )

  

  MissPres has gone over the river and through the woods for Thanksgiving, but we’re sending postcards back from Mississippi’s past.

• Early 20th Century Wins It!

  By ELMalvaney on November 23, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Our first official MissPres poll asking readers to vote for their three favorite architectural styles ended yesterday in a dead heat between Craftsman/Bungalow and that three-headed beast, Art Deco/Art Moderne/Stripped Classic. Out of a total of 151 votes cast, 32… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 11-22-2010

  By JRGordon on November 22, 2010 • ( 3 )

  Happy Thanksgiving week everyone!  Even though we skipped a week for the News Round-Up so Malvaney could catch us up on the blogging world, I’ve been keeping up with the news from around the state.  As you’ll see, the Coast… Read More ›

• Miles to go before I sleep

  By ELMalvaney on November 19, 2010 • ( 11 )

  I try to avoid going to Lemuria Books, our independent bookstore here in Jackson, because I always end up spending large sums of money. But I never succeed in staying away for too long. Recently, I grabbed a huge book… Read More ›

• Corinth and the Limitations of the MDAH

  By W. White on November 18, 2010 • ( 1 )

  This is the second of two posts on Corinth regarding this situation; the first post was published yesterday. Corinth, a place apart from the rest of Mississippi, on the periphery, in the corner, in the farthest reaches. Corinth is Pluto,… Read More ›

• This is Not Historic: Corinth’s Reclassification of a Historic District

  By W. White on November 17, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  This is the first of two posts on Corinth regarding this situation, the second post will be published tomorrow. Per the October 21, 2010 edition of the Daily Corinthian, the Corinth aldermen met on October 19 and voted to remove… Read More ›

• Keesler Field Barracks

  By Thomas Rosell on November 16, 2010 • ( 51 )

  

  Malvaney’s posts showing Camp Shelby back in World War II reminded me of a recent trip to Keesler AFB in Biloxi. When I was on base back in September I was surprised to find that there was a World War… Read More ›

• Round the Blogosphere 11-15-2010

  By ELMalvaney on November 15, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I gave jrgordon the day off on the weekly news roundup because I realized it’s been two months since our last blogosphere roundup. I’ve been starring posts like mad in my Google Reader, and if I don’t post them for… Read More ›

• Camp Shelby in WWII, Part 3

  By ELMalvaney on November 12, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  Today we’ll finish out our three-day Veterans Day with the remaining postcards from the c.1941 set showing the huge training facility at our own Camp Shelby. As bluerim noted in a comment, Camp Shelby boasts a fine military museum, one… Read More ›

• Veterans Day 2010

  By ELMalvaney on November 11, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  In honor of Veterans Day, MissPres is taking a three-day trip back to Camp Shelby in World War II, via a set of prosy postcards meant for soldiers to send to family and friends. From the text itself, these seem… Read More ›

• Honoring Veterans: Camp Shelby in WWII

  By ELMalvaney on November 10, 2010 • ( 30 )

  

  Maybe you’ve seen the commercial from a chain steakhouse saying how proud they are of our veterans and to show how proud, they’re offering vets a free fried onion and beverage. Well, some might question whether a free full meal… Read More ›

• History of Art in Mississippi: Ole Miss

  By ELMalvaney on November 9, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  As you may recall, a couple of weeks ago, we started an occasional Book Quotes series from the 1929 book The History of Art in Mississippi. Today we return to the chapter on Public Buildings with the entry on the… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 11-8-2010

  By JRGordon on November 8, 2010 • ( 7 )

  

  No big intro this week – let’s jump right into the news: The weekly papers covering Waynesboro and Water Valley have recently published stories about how each community is looking at establishing National Register Districts.  The meetings local officials have… Read More ›

• Funky Light Fixtures

  By ELMalvaney on November 5, 2010 • ( 12 )

  

  I suspect I’m not the only MissPreser who enjoys the occasional Rejuvenation catalog that comes in the mail. Imagine my surprise when I spotted a Mid-Century Modern light fixture in a round student union building in the Mississippi Delta.

• Another Vanishing Civil Rights Landmark

  By ELMalvaney on November 4, 2010 • ( 21 )

  

  On my recent trip to the Delta, I decided to take the county road north of Greenwood, instead of Highway 49. I wanted to check on the old Bryant Grocery Store in the Money community to see if it was… Read More ›

• Modernism in the Mississippi Delta

  By ELMalvaney on November 3, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  One thing that surprised me when I moved to Mississippi and ventured into the Delta–a place that I had understood from various news stories was a place that time forgot–was how much the region had changed over the latter half… Read More ›

• The Mysterious Case of the Missing Streetcar Lines

  By ELMalvaney on November 2, 2010 • ( 21 )

  

  I’ve finally gotten around to reading a book that’s been on my shelf waiting for a while, Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth T. Jackson. Not a traditional architectural history, the book does explain alot about how American cities and suburbs came… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 11-1-2010

  By JRGordon on November 1, 2010 • ( 10 )

  After getting a little experience with the News Roundup a few weeks ago, JRGordon has decided to take it on as a regular contributor. JR has been around the MissPres universe for at least a year now, by my reckoning,… Read More ›

• History of Art in Mississippi: County Court Houses

  By ELMalvaney on October 29, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  Let’s finish off this week with a shorter excerpt from The History of Art in Mississippi, still from the chapter on “Architecture in Public Buildings.” The authors examine three courthouses in particular, all from the 19th century. What do you… Read More ›

• History of Art in Mississippi: Seats of Government

  By ELMalvaney on October 28, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  Today we continue with our trek through the chapter on “Architecture in Public Buildings” from the 1929 book History of Art in Mississippi. As we’ve noted before, this book was the result of a highly collaborative effort, mostly by women… Read More ›

• History of Art in Mississippi: Modern Office Structures

  By ELMalvaney on October 27, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Today, we continue our Book Quotes series on the 1929 book, History of Art in Mississippi, which devotes a surprising amount of space to architecture. Like the author of the WPA Guide’s chapter on architecture, the ladies who compiled HoAiM… Read More ›

• Book Quotes: History of Art in Mississippi

  By ELMalvaney on October 26, 2010 • ( 7 )

  

  It’s been a while since our last Book Quotes series, way back in May, when summer had only just begun. Now, here we are in October when summer has yet to end, giving new meaning to that formerly romantic phrase… Read More ›

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