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• Springfield Sees New Life

  By ELMalvaney on August 25, 2010 • ( 2 )

  I have to admit Springfield, down in Jefferson County, is one historic house I’ve never made it out to see, even though it was open for tours for many years before the death of the last owner, Arthur LaSalle. Mr…. Read More ›

• Possible New Historic District Near Pass Christian

  By Thomas Rosell on August 24, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  Last week the Department of Archives and History held a public meeting in the Pineville Community just north of Pass Christian to discuss a new historic district along Menge Avenue.  The meeting was held at Oak Crest on Menge Avenue, a 1920 two-story Neoclassical manor that now… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-23-2010

  By W. White on August 23, 2010 • ( 9 )

  This is a supplemental News Roundup to Malvaney’s Friday post and my first News Roundup since late April. This post is simply to cover the stories that have fallen through the cracks the past few weeks/months. And here is the… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-20-2010

  By ELMalvaney on August 20, 2010 • ( 4 )

  Three weeks of August down, only one and a little bit to go. We can do it, y’all! This week’s roundup has lots of national stories in it, I don’t know why. ————————————- NPR had a fascinating story on All… Read More ›

• Concrete Block Structures of Biloxi

  By Thomas Rosell on August 19, 2010 • ( 8 )

  

  While concrete block has been around for thousands of years it did not become widely accepted as a quality building material in North America until the turn of the 20th century. This general acceptance came about as the manufacturing process… Read More ›

• Newspaper Clippings: Save Downtown Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on August 18, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  We haven’t done a newspaper clipping post in a while, and given yesterday’s post about the Naval Reserve Center down by the fairgrounds in downtown Jackson, I thought this one would be appropriate. First some context: when we walk down… Read More ›

• Demolition begins on Jackson’s Naval Reserve Center

  By ELMalvaney on August 17, 2010 • ( 5 )

  

  Workers have been spotted at the Naval Reserve Center behind the Old Capitol in Jackson over the last week removing windows, interior debris, and sections of the rear wings in preparation for the demolition of most of the rear wings… Read More ›

• A Lustron House in Clarksdale and Sambo Mockbee all in one post?

  By ELMalvaney on August 16, 2010 • ( 7 )

  

  A couple months ago, as you recall, we highlighted the one Lustron house left in Jackson (out of originally three), and I made passing mention to the only other known Lustron house in the state up in Clarksdale. Well, lo… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-13-2010

  By ELMalvaney on August 13, 2010 • ( 3 )

  Long ago in the Year of our Lord 2007, the first two weeks of August, expected to be hot and steamy and muggy and generally uncomfortable, instead became cool, with lows even into the 50s at night, gloriously cool nights… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect: Fellow Tom Biggs

  By ELMalvaney on August 12, 2010 • ( 5 )

  

  This last installment from the May 1963 issue of Mississippi Architect is an unusual one for the magazine, as it focuses on one particular Mississippi architect who was being honored by the A.I.A. We’ve looked at a few of Tom… Read More ›

• Miss. Architect, May 1963: Lafayette County Jail

  By ELMalvaney on August 11, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  LAFAYETTE COUNTY JAIL OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI This county jail is located on one of the main streets in town. The architects who designed it took into account two primary needs: the need for privacy and the need for fresh design. The new… Read More ›

• Mississippi Architect, May 1963

  By ELMalvaney on August 10, 2010 • ( 0 )

  We begin our third entry 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 and read each… Read More ›

• New Internet Resources for MissPresers

  By ELMalvaney on August 9, 2010 • ( 8 )

  While lounging around on vacation last week, and when not sitting on the white sandy  beaches (NO OIL!!) of Northwest Florida (this has been a non-paid advertisement for the Gulf Coast tourism industry), I had a chance to catch up… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: Sun Tan Hotel Court, Biloxi

  By ELMalvaney on August 6, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

• Vacation Postcards: Hotel Thomas Jefferson, Macon

  By ELMalvaney on August 5, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from our travels to the past.

• Vacation Postcards: Yacht Club and Civic Center, Gulfport

  By ELMalvaney on August 4, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from our travels to the past.

• Vacation Postcards: Travel Inn Motel, Indianola

  By ELMalvaney on August 3, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  MissPres is on vacation this week, but we’re sending postcards back from our travels to the past.

• Vacation Postcards: Monte Cristo Tourist Court, West Point

  By ELMalvaney on August 2, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

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

• MissPres News Roundup 7-30-2010

  By ELMalvaney on July 30, 2010 • ( 8 )

  

  Can you believe July is almost over? Since August is my least favorite month, I’ll be taking my summer vacation next week. You may say, “Good grief, Malvaney just took a long vacation in April!” To which I would respond,… Read More ›

• To Leakesville and Back

  By ELMalvaney on July 29, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  Leakesville? Leakesville, you say? What’s in Leakesville and why would you go there? Well, for one thing, Leakesville boasts a fine courthouse and a nice school complex. Plus, there’s interesting stuff on the way there from Jackson, and it’s on… Read More ›

• Laurel’s Contribution to Architectural History

  By ELMalvaney on July 28, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  I saw this postcard of the Masonite Plant on ebay recently (and no, I’m not addicted. Yet) and snatched it right up because it reminded me that we have our own Laurel, Mississippi to thank for all that pressed wood… Read More ›

• Abandoned Mississippi: Central Delta Academy, Inverness

  By ELMalvaney on July 27, 2010 • ( 52 )

  

  I was up in the Delta recently and swung through Inverness on my way back to Jackson from Indianola. I had heard that one of my favorite Delta schools, the old Inverness School and more lately the Central Delta Academy,… Read More ›

• Blog Roundup 7-26-2010

  By ELMalvaney on July 26, 2010 • ( 3 )

  I think the blog roundup will become a regular feature, not every week but enough to start designating it with a date like the news roundups. I hope these links help pull together lots of good blog posts you might… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 7-23-2010

  By ELMalvaney on July 23, 2010 • ( 10 )

  

  Let’s keep one eye on Bonnie and the other eye on the preservation news around the state. And those of us who wear glasses will still have two more eyes to, like, avoid marauding oil splotches, watch tv, read a… Read More ›

• Southern Mantel & Tile: Mission Furniture Too

  By ELMalvaney on July 22, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Here we are at the last in our series “Best of the Southern Mantel & Tile Catalog.” Yesterday, I showed where the main office of the company was located, on South Gallatin Street, and I wondered if that was also… Read More ›

• Southern Mantel & Tile: Selling Mantels and Mantel Accessories

  By ELMalvaney on July 21, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  Here we are on the third day of our series bringing some of Jackson’s construction history back out in the open. The Southern Mantel and Tile Company was based in Jackson, and apparently had their offices and maybe their whole… Read More ›

• Southern Mantel & Tile: The secret’s in the lumber

  By ELMalvaney on July 20, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Today, we pick up in the second part of our series showcasing the Southern Mantel & Tile catalog from 1908. Southern Mantel & Tile was based in Jackson, so presumably and depending on how long they operated, we might run… Read More ›

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