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• MissPres News Roundup 10-25-2010

  By ELMalvaney on October 25, 2010 • ( 26 )

  

  Well, it’s been a while since I actually had to compose a news roundup. I hope I can still remember how. ———————————– A sad event in the life of Crystal Springs happened this week, when a fire destroyed four buildings… Read More ›

• Get Out the Vote!

  By ELMalvaney on October 23, 2010 • ( 1 )

  I think MissPres has reached a level of readership at which polls might provide interesting insights about various topics. Our first poll is an easy one, asking what architectural style or era is your favorite. You don’t even have to… Read More ›

• More About R.H. Hunt, and an Art Deco Delight

  By ELMalvaney on October 22, 2010 • ( 7 )

  

  Yesterday, I showed just a few of the Mississippi gems designed by Chattanooga architect R.H. Hunt during his 40-year career beginning in the 1890s. To end the week on a high note, here are a few of the Hunt buildings… Read More ›

• Architect Pics: Reuben Harrison Hunt of Chattanooga

  By ELMalvaney on October 21, 2010 • ( 16 )

  

  While I was in Chattanooga last week, I decided to see if I could find the gravestone of Chattanooga architect R.H. Hunt, who designed a wealth of landmarks around Mississippi and throughout the Southeast from the 1890s through the early… Read More ›

• The White House Waits to Bloom Again in Biloxi

  By Tom Barnes on October 20, 2010 • ( 20 )

  

  It may not be a surprise to anyone in a town so battered by hurricanes that only one grand hotel would remain after a litany of horrific storms and the vicissitudes of rampant development. In spite of Camille and even… Read More ›

• Preservation in Mississippi Fall Reading List

  By W. White on October 19, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  I know that we are nearly a month into Fall, the season where the weather entices one to go outside and enjoy the air, but that does not mean I cannot publish a reading list for the season. Of course the… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 10-18-2010

  By ELMalvaney on October 18, 2010 • ( 6 )

  I got back from my trip to Chattanooga yesterday (my “vacation” last week was a working one, just in case you think I’ve gotten too soft with two vacations in three months) and have to admit I wasn’t really looking… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: Albert Pick Motel, Natchez

  By ELMalvaney on October 15, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

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

• Vacation Postcards: Gilmer Motor Inn, Columbus

  By ELMalvaney on October 14, 2010 • ( 7 )

  

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

• Vacation Postcards: Holiday Inn, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on October 13, 2010 • ( 12 )

  

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

• Vacation Postcards: Town House Motor Hotel, Laurel

  By ELMalvaney on October 12, 2010 • ( 5 )

  

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

• Vacation Postcards: Cotton Boll Court, Clarksdale

  By ELMalvaney on October 11, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

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

• How many bricks were in Forest High School?

  By ELMalvaney on October 8, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  I just finished a fascinating article in the Atlantic that I hope you’ll find time to read this weekend. It’s called “Autism’s First Child” and it’s about the first recognized case of autism ever, Donald Gray Triplett, a man born… Read More ›

• Three Round Banks

  By ELMalvaney on October 7, 2010 • ( 45 )

  

  When I was in Meridian looking at the old Sears building last week, I discovered for the first time (although I’ve driven past them numerous times) two mid-century banks in the same area. They reminded me of a former bank… Read More ›

• Two Fire Updates

  By ELMalvaney on October 6, 2010 • ( 5 )

  

  As you may recall from a News Roundup in June, the Gothic Revival-style Capitol Street Church of Christ suffered a fire that apparently started from a lightning strike. At the time, the Clarion-Ledger article mentioned that the primary damage was… Read More ›

• High Cotton in the Delta

  By ELMalvaney on October 5, 2010 • ( 5 )

  

  I was up in the Delta in mid-September and was surprised, although in retrospect I shouldn’t have been, to see that the cotton harvest was well underway. After reading up about it, I realized that the extremely early, long and… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 10-3-2010

  By ELMalvaney on October 4, 2010 • ( 11 )

  

  I think it’s evidence of a long hot summer when 62 degrees feels like winter, but that’s where I am right now. On to the news . . . ——————————— It seems the on-going maintenance and renovation of the New… Read More ›

• Even More Reasons to Get Up and Go

  By ELMalvaney on October 1, 2010 • ( 3 )

  As often happens, I either missed certain upcoming events or they were announced after my recent “Fall Happenings” post. Don’t forget that the various Fall pilgrimages begin today. Also, there’s a historic landscapes conference at MSU on October 20, and… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, July 1963: Architect’s Office

  By ELMalvaney on September 30, 2010 • ( 13 )

  

  Ok, if you hate Modernism, or if you love Craftsman bungalows, or if your name is W. White, you might just want to stop reading right now. Today’s post, a reprint of the feature article in the July 1963 issue… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, July 1963

  By ELMalvaney on September 29, 2010 • ( 6 )

  Today we move into the July 1963 issue in the Mississippi Architect series, reprinted courtesy of the Mississippi Chapter of the AIA. If you’ve missed the previous entries, just click the MSArcht tab above to see the tables of contents… Read More ›

• Lost Mansions of Mississippi, The Sequel

  By ELMalvaney on September 28, 2010 • ( 11 )

  

  I had heard that Mary Carol Miller was writing a sequel to her helpful yet heartbreaking Lost Mansions of Mississippi, but from what I could tell, it wasn’t coming out in stores until October. But as proof that the early… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-27-2010

  By ELMalvaney on September 27, 2010 • ( 3 )

  

  Well, Fall has possibly arrived for good in Mississippi, as of yesterday, but I for one am not getting my hopes up. I got .11 inches of rain at my house–maybe y’all got more. What’s been going on round these… Read More ›

• Friday Just for Fun

  By ELMalvaney on September 24, 2010 • ( 13 )

  

  Now that I’ve been mentally freed (thanks, W!) to post the News Roundups on Mondays, I can leave Friday for something light and fun if I want to, and this week, we ask a light and fun question of terminology…. Read More ›

• Abandoned Mississippi: Kuhn Memorial State Hospital, Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on September 23, 2010 • ( 214 )

  

  Tucked away on the Jackson Road (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.) between downtown Vicksburg and the Vicksburg National Military Park stands a huge abandoned hulk that today emanates despair but was for over a century a place of hope… Read More ›

• Architect Pics: William Nichols (1780-1853)

  By ELMalvaney on September 22, 2010 • ( 9 )

  

  Well ok, this isn’t a traditional architect picture post. In fact, I don’t know that a picture exists of our own esteemed William Nichols–I don’t have Ford Peatross’ William Nichols’ Architect handy in front of me. Nichols was one of… Read More ›

• Concrete Block Structures of Biloxi (Part II)

  By Thomas Rosell on September 21, 2010 • ( 10 )

  

  Last time all the buildings featured one type of block face.  Today the two buildings we will look at feature two or more types of block. By the turn of the 20th century a block machine that could make a different block… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-20-2010

  By ELMalvaney on September 20, 2010 • ( 5 )

  

  Could the horrible summer weather we’ve been having be a punishment of some kind, maybe for the demolition of the Central Delta Academy, or since it started before that, the project at the Naval Reserve Center? Or am I reading… Read More ›

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