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• Modernist Gems in . . . Booneville?

  By ELMalvaney on June 10, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  Well, I didn’t start out the week with intention of having a Modernism theme, but since we’ve had three days of it, it just seems right throw in some pictures I took a few months ago on a road trip… Read More ›

• Lustron House in Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on June 9, 2010 • ( 7 )

  

  Just around the corner from the classically proportioned J.R. Flint house designed by A. Hays Town in south Jackson is a house that makes no bones about its modernity. It’s a Lustron House, one of only two or three that… Read More ›

• The Beauty of Modernist Storefronts

  By ELMalvaney on June 8, 2010 • ( 11 )

  

  I admit I sometimes spend a good amount of money on a book that 99.999% of the population wouldn’t pay two cents for. I found one such book on a trip to Cincinnati a while back. Published in 1946, it’s… Read More ›

• Lost Mississippi: International Style House, Waveland

  By ELMalvaney on June 7, 2010 • ( 10 )

  

  I don’t know as much about today’s Lost Mississippi subject as I usually try to when posting. But an archivist friend of mine (always make friends with the archivists) sent me a copy of this International-style house in Waveland from… Read More ›

• Some Sunday Afternoon Reading

  By ELMalvaney on June 6, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Best read while sitting on the porch with a cool beverage: “Ghosts of New York“, Atlantic (June 2010): About architectural ornament salvaged from the demolition sites of the 1950s and 60s, now sitting in the back yard of the Brooklyn… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-4-2010

  By ELMalvaney on June 4, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  As you all no doubt remember, God made Fridays for News Roundups, but I’ve been off-kilter the last couple of months since being abandoned by formerly trusty W. White and have just been posting roundups on any ol’ day of… Read More ›

• J.R. Flint House by Hays Town in South Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on June 3, 2010 • ( 19 )

  

  A while back, regular commenter Carunzel (although come to think of it, where is Carunzel lately?) pointed out a little publication hidden away in the state archives that turned out to be a gem. Titled Builders of Mississippi and published… Read More ›

• To Natchez and Back

  By ELMalvaney on June 2, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  Last weekend, my parents and my two Chicago aunts came to visit me, or I should say they came to visit Natchez and let me come along as a tour guide. My aunts were intent on seeing some of the… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 6-1-2010

  By ELMalvaney on June 1, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  Ok, I think I published this post accidentally in draft form not once but twice, so if some of y’all read it in its unfinished state, please excuse my recent bumbling. Things have been hopping round these parts the last… Read More ›

• Memorial Day 2010

  By ELMalvaney on May 30, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Confederate Graves, Friendship Cemetery, Columbus MS Originally uploaded by Deep Fried Kudzu

• Whistling Past Eaton School

  By ELMalvaney on May 28, 2010 • ( 5 )

  I know I owe y’all a News Roundup, but that’s going to have to wait until Monday due to my house being invaded by all sorts of relatives; friendly relatives, but still not conducive to blog posting. Instead, can we… Read More ›

• An Alabama-Mississippi Architectural Partnership

  By W. White on May 27, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  Multiple times on Preservation in Mississippi, the Meridian City Hall has been discussed. We all know that it was designed by preeminent Meridian architect P. J. Krouse. Or do we? Well, yes he designed it but the story is much… Read More ›

• Some Early Sources About Mississippi Architecture

  By ELMalvaney on May 26, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  I’ve been spending alot of time on a website that is one of my favorites and also a nemesis, abebooks.com, which combines the databases of hundreds or thousands of used bookstores around the world. I enjoy seeing what pops up… Read More ›

• St. Peter’s scaffolding comes down

  By ELMalvaney on May 25, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  If you’ve been in downtown Jackson in the last 6 months or so, you’ve probably noticed that the steeple and tower of the Cathedral of St. Peter’s have been encased in scaffolding.The steeple was damaged by the high winds of… Read More ›

• Interesting federal projects a-doing in DC

  By ELMalvaney on May 24, 2010 • ( 9 )

  

  I just got back from a quick trip to the Vernacular Architecture Forum annual meeting in Washington DC (when I left MS it was kind of coolish; I returned to full-fledged summer). This year’s meeting included an optional all-day tour… Read More ›

• Historic Preservation: A Remembrance of First Principles, part II

  By jackdelliottjr on May 21, 2010 • ( 3 )

  In Part I, I sketched out the key concerns of preservation. Beyond simply saving bricks and mortar it is a call to roots, to first principles, to the understanding that, although we are individuals, we are part of larger communities… Read More ›

• Historic Preservation: A Remembrance of First Principles (Part I)

  By jackdelliottjr on May 20, 2010 • ( 1 )

  Today’s will be the first post by new MissPres contributor Jack Elliott. It’s a paper he presented on February 5th, 2010, at the Saving Places Conference in Denver, Colorado. As you may remember, Jack published an article last fall on… Read More ›

• Threefoot Building on National Trust’s 2010 11 Most Endangered List

  By ELMalvaney on May 19, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  For those who haven’t heard, the National Trust announced its 2010 11 Most Endangered List today, and Meridian’s Threefoot Building made the list. It’s a dubious honor of course, but we can hope that the national attention to one of… Read More ›

• Pleasure Domes Past…Biloxi’s Broadwater Beach

  By Tom Barnes on May 19, 2010 • ( 143 )

  

  Only the tattered remains of an elaborate marina today mark the site of one of Biloxi’s largest and most famous resort complexes. The Broadwater Beach holds a firm place in the memory of many a resident of the area, but… Read More ›

• Update on Mississippi Industrial College (it’s not good)

  By ELMalvaney on May 18, 2010 • ( 48 )

  

  As you may recall, Cathrine Hall, one of the several historic buildings left on the amazing but vacant Mississippi Industrial College in Holly Springs, suffered a partial collapse last June (2009). That news came to me word-of-mouth, and I’ve never… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 5-17-2010

  By ELMalvaney on May 17, 2010 • ( 4 )

  It’s been a couple weeks since our last news roundup, so I thought I’d stick one in on Monday instead of Friday/Saturday. I hope this temporary change in schedule doesn’t blow everybody’s minds. Some crazy stuff has been happening around… Read More ›

• Lost Churches of Mississippi in bookstores

  By ELMalvaney on May 15, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  In case you’ve missed the announcements, Lost Churches of Mississippi, a book that I’m sure most of you will want to add to your library has just come out in the last week. Published by University Press of Mississippi, the… Read More ›

• Name This Place 5–Final Standings

  By ELMalvaney on May 14, 2010 • ( 0 )

  We have our first tie ever in this week’s Name This Place contest. Belinda took the early lead and held it all the way until today, but laconic Theodore, who usually lurks around making snide remarks and pretending not to… Read More ›

• Name This Place 5.5–Finis

  By ELMalvaney on May 14, 2010 • ( 12 )

  

  It’s been an exciting week on MissPres, as readers wait with baited breath to see what picture will pop up for identification. Belinda took the lead on the first day and has managed to hold on, but just by one… Read More ›

• Name This Place 5.45

  By ELMalvaney on May 14, 2010 • ( 9 )

  

  Is it possible to have two bonus rounds in one Name This Place contest? Yes it is. Be the first to name the building in this snowy pictures and you get one point.

• Name This Place 5.4

  By ELMalvaney on May 13, 2010 • ( 19 )

  

  After three days and a bonus round, Belinda is still hanging on to the lead in this week’s Name This Place contest. Yesterday, I thought I would celebrate my birthday by stumping everyone in the bonus round with an old… Read More ›

• Name This Place 5.3

  By ELMalvaney on May 12, 2010 • ( 20 )

  

  Well, folks, after two days and one bonus round, we’ve got a nail-biter going in this week’s Name This Place contest. Here’s how it stands now. Belinda: 3 points W. White: 2 points J.R. Gordon: 2 points Tom Barnes: 1… Read More ›

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