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• Round the Blogosphere 9-17-2010

  By ELMalvaney on September 17, 2010 • ( 3 )

  Since we had a News Roundup on Monday, courtesy of W. White, today we’ll take a look around the blogosphere and news from the wider world. One of my favorite blog series to come along in a while is Marty… Read More ›

• Carnegie Building at MS Industrial College

  By ELMalvaney on September 16, 2010 • ( 16 )

  

  Several posts in the last few months have focused on the terrible shape and continuing decline of the incredible little campus of the Mississippi Industrial College in Holly Springs. Hopefully, we’ll be hearing more about the true condition of the… Read More ›

• Jackson’s Fondren Neighborhood: Historic and Hip

  By ELMalvaney on September 15, 2010 • ( 14 )

  

  Pretty much everywhere I go lately, someone asks me, “Have you read The Help?” “No,” I reply, “I’m waiting for the movie.” Not only will seeing the movie save me time, it will also showcase my neighborhood, the hippest, coolest… Read More ›

• Fall Happenings

  By ELMalvaney on September 14, 2010 • ( 2 )

  Admittedly it doesn’t seem very much like fall yet, except for a few coolish evenings, but it is time to start planning ahead for courses to help grow in your knowledge of Mississippi architecture (and maybe help you win your… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-13-2010

  By W. White on September 13, 2010 • ( 5 )

  Let me start out with the most important news of the last week: I am the new Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire. The third try was the charm for me. I led from the first day (which I had done before) but… Read More ›

• A New Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire

  By ELMalvaney on September 11, 2010 • ( 4 )

  W. White took the lead  from the first day’s Name This Place competition this week and only widened it each day to earn his first win and the right to wear the crown Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire. Congratulations, W! I know… Read More ›

• Name This Place 6.5.3

  By ELMalvaney on September 10, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  And last but not least, to put Name This Place 6 to bed:

• Name This Place 6.5.2

  By ELMalvaney on September 10, 2010 • ( 7 )

  

• Name This Place 6.5.1

  By ELMalvaney on September 10, 2010 • ( 8 )

  

  Well, y’all could have seen me do my specially choreographed end-zone dance that I was planning yesterday afternoon when it looked like nobody was going to guess the second Name This Place, but then Belinda popped in after 6 hours… Read More ›

• Name This Place 6.4.2

  By ELMalvaney on September 9, 2010 • ( 25 )

  

  This may be the one that gets ol’ Malvaney a spot in the Name This Place standings . . .

• Name This Place 6.4.1

  By ELMalvaney on September 9, 2010 • ( 11 )

  

  Ok, yesterday I thought I’d throw a little slow pitch on the first post (Rosalie) to get everyone complacent and then whip a couple of blistering fast balls past in the next two posts (Grover Hotel, Runnelstown Gymnasium). But you… Read More ›

• Name This Place 6.3.3

  By ELMalvaney on September 8, 2010 • ( 12 )

• Name This Place 6.3.2

  By ELMalvaney on September 8, 2010 • ( 9 )

• Name This Place 6.3.1

  By ELMalvaney on September 8, 2010 • ( 8 )

  

  Under the old Name This Place rules, W. White’s current 5 point lead would be insurmountable, but nowadays, with up to three pictures a day, it’s still anybody’s game. If you’re just joining us, read The Rules first and jump… Read More ›

• Name This Place 6.2.2

  By ELMalvaney on September 7, 2010 • ( 13 )

  

• Name This Place 6.2.1

  By ELMalvaney on September 7, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  In yesterday’s first post, Susan Allen became our first leader by correctly identifying the Quitman County Courthouse in Marks. W. White also got a point on that first post and then grabbed two more by identifying the Rocky Springs Methodist… Read More ›

• Name This Place 6.1.2

  By ELMalvaney on September 6, 2010 • ( 8 )

  

• Name This Place 6.1.1

  By ELMalvaney on September 6, 2010 • ( 13 )

  

  If you’re just joining us, you’ve picked a great time. We’re at the very start of our 6th Annual Name This Place contest, wherein MissPres readers battle for the much-coveted title of Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire. At the end of the… Read More ›

• Not Your Grandma’s Name This Place Contest

  By ELMalvaney on September 5, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Tomorrow, we’ll start a new Name This Place contest, an exciting time in the life of all MissPresers. It’s been a while since we’ve had a contest, and I know we’ve had a number of new readers join our group… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-4-2010

  By W. White on September 4, 2010 • ( 9 )

  Since preservation is of course not limited to Mississippi and there is a number of national (or at least non-Mississippi) news articles that have piqued my interest, this is a special edition of the MissPres News Roundup. And here is the news. The… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-3-2010

  By ELMalvaney on September 3, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I think we’ve set a record for most News Roundups in two weeks (four total). This puts us in fine shape to take next week off for a little contest. Yes, MissPresers, you heard right! It’s been almost four months… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, June 1963: Reid Residence

  By ELMalvaney on September 2, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  The second article from the June 1963 Mississippi Architect is about a house in Jackson’s Woodland Hills neighborhood, the Reid House. Those of you who have been around MissPres for a while may remember that this house was featured in… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, June 1963

  By ELMalvaney on September 1, 2010 • ( 18 )

  

  Today and tomorrow are the fourth in the Mississippi Architect series, an on-going effort to reprint (with permission of course) the monthly journal of the Mississippi AIA, published originally from March 1963 through March 1965. In today’s edition, we can… Read More ›

• Claude H. Lindsley alive and well… in 1968

  By Thomas Rosell on August 31, 2010 • ( 8 )

  

  In a previous post there had been some discussion of what happened to Claude Lindsley, Jackson architect of the Art Deco Standard Life Building (among many other landmarks), later on in his life.  He moved from Houston, Texas some time in the 1950’s… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-30-2010

  By W. White on August 30, 2010 • ( 3 )

  This News Roundup will cover some new news and some of the older news that I could not fit into the last Roundup. And here is the news. Let’s start this News Roundup with news from Starkville, an area that… Read More ›

• MissPres Blog Roundup 8-27-2010

  By ELMalvaney on August 27, 2010 • ( 3 )

  

  Time for another look around at the blogosphere: Imagine my surprise to see a post titled “Mississippi Gulf Coast Architecture” on the Preservation in Pink blog, which is normally focused more on North Carolina and now New England. The post… Read More ›

• Before and After: Coleman High School, Greenville

  By ELMalvaney on August 26, 2010 • ( 35 )

  

  You may remember back last summer around this time when I was doing the Book Quotes about Hitchcock and Johnson’s The International Style, I posted this old postcard of Coleman High School in Greenville. I was in Greenville recently and… Read More ›

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