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• Name This Place 5.25

  By ELMalvaney on May 12, 2010 • ( 3 )

  

  Well, it’s mid-week in our latest Name This Place contest, and it seems to me we could use a bonus round. In bonus rounds, there’s just one point for someone to grab–name the place and you get it. No extra… Read More ›

• Name This Place 5.2

  By ELMalvaney on May 11, 2010 • ( 20 )

  

  Belinda grabbed the early lead in the first day of the fifth annual Name This Place contest yesterday by being the first to identify the masonic lodge in Fayette. W. White and Tom Barnes also took a point each by… Read More ›

• Name This Place 5.1

  By ELMalvaney on May 10, 2010 • ( 19 )

  

  Be the first winner in this week’s Name This Place contest. Read the rules, guess the place correctly and give us some information about it. It’s that simple!

• How ‘Bout a Contest?

  By ELMalvaney on May 10, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I think it might be time for another contest, so let’s just set aside all other concerns, obviously of lesser importance, and get to it, shall we? For those of you who have recently stumbled into the wacky world of… Read More ›

• Avoid Druggie Plumbers and Other Renovation Lessons

  By ELMalvaney on May 7, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  I know today is typically a News Roundup day, but instead I’m taking a minute to sit back and review a house renovation project I’ve been working on since May 2006–four years! It all started in March 2006 when my… Read More ›

• An Important House Needs Our Help (Part II)

  By ELMalvaney on May 6, 2010 • ( 11 )

  

  Last year, a reader contacted me about a house in Jefferson County that has fallen on hard times and needs a new owner to bring it back to life. I ran a post about it (“An Important House Needs Our… Read More ›

• Preservation Month in the MissPres Universe

  By ELMalvaney on May 5, 2010 • ( 2 )

  As y’all are no doubt aware, May is Preservation Month, which is good because if it was June, July or August, we would all have to agree it was just too hot to put on a program. But since it’s… Read More ›

• Lost Mississippi: Concord, Natchez (1789-1901)

  By ELMalvaney on May 4, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  Last week’s WPA Guide to the Magnolia State mentioned the Natchez mansion “Concord” very prominently in its discussion of the evolution of architecture in Mississippi. Concord must have been an amazing place because although it burned in 1901, it has… Read More ›

• Tornado Victim: Ebenezer Baptist Church

  By ELMalvaney on May 3, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  The tornadoes that ripped through the state last weekend from Eagle Lake through Yazoo City, Holmes County, and Choctaw County spared the large historic districts in Vicksburg, Yazoo City, and Lexington, but Friday’s Clarion-Ledger reported that at least one historic… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-30-2010

  By ELMalvaney on April 30, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Our crack reporter, W. White, has finished exams at MSU (or maybe just got kicked out?) and headed back Alabama way for the summer, where he no doubt will waste his substance in riotous living before coming back to Starkville… Read More ›

• WPA Guide to the Magnolia State: But the Depression is Great!

  By ELMalvaney on April 29, 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  Today we come to the conclusion of the WPA Guide to the Magnolia State and its section on Architecture. While Beverly Martin, the young architect we have conjectured is the author, has shown his bias for the antebellum era and… Read More ›

• Historic Schools Day

  By ELMalvaney on April 28, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Well it’s very embarrassing to me that I didn’t know that this week is “School Building Week” and that yesterday was “Historic Schools Day”! In fact, I didn’t know either of those existed, but I’ll be sure to celebrate next… Read More ›

• WPA Guide to the Magnolia State: Let’s Just Forget 1865-1920

  By ELMalvaney on April 28, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  This week we’re working our way through the section on Architecture in the WPA Guide to the Magnolia State, published in 1938 as part of the Federal Writers’ Project. If you’re coming in late, make sure to pick up Part… Read More ›

• Some Mid-Week News

  By ELMalvaney on April 27, 2010 • ( 7 )

  Since this can’t wait until our regular News Roundup, I wanted to make the MissPres universe aware of two events in which you might be interested. First, the Mississippi Historic Preservation Conference will be next Thursday and Friday in Natchez,… Read More ›

• WPA Guide to the Magnolia State: No Such Thing as “Southern Colonial”

  By ELMalvaney on April 27, 2010 • ( 8 )

  

  Today’s post is the second in this week’s serial reproduction of the section on architecture in the Guide to the Magnolia State, published in 1938 as part of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writer’s Project. As we saw yesterday, this… Read More ›

• Book Quotes: WPA Guide to the Magnolia State

  By ELMalvaney on April 26, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  As I get back on my feet from my French connection, I figured this week would be a good one to dedicate to another in the Book Quotes series. This week, we’ll take the section titled “Architecture” from Mississippi: Guide… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-25-2010

  By W. White on April 24, 2010 • ( 4 )

  Welcome back from France, Malvaney. Most of the news that I have found for the past two weeks has concerned various Pilgrimages. It almost seems that every small town in Mississippi has people parading around in hoop skirts and Confederate… Read More ›

• The Original Romanesque and Gothic

  By ELMalvaney on April 23, 2010 • ( 5 )

  

  Well, after a 24-hour day of flying, including five airports, four hours standing in six lines at Charles de Gaulle, a lovely dinner of lamb and couscous on the Air France flight on which I finally got placed, two hours… Read More ›

• More Really Old Places from the Continent

  By ELMalvaney on April 21, 2010 • ( 5 )

  

  Still in France, of course, and still waiting on the volcano to be quiet or airlines to move to Plan B. In addition to the Roman remains in France, there are many fortified and walled towns, churches, bridges, and even… Read More ›

• I’m Not Dead Yet . . .

  By ELMalvaney on April 20, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  Well, y’all, I thought I would be back in Mississippi by now, enjoying a lovely Spring while relaxing on my screen porch, sorting through my thousand-plus pictures from my trip to France, and getting back to regular posts on MissPres…. Read More ›

• Paved, Not Saved…Biloxi’s Buena Vista Hotel

  By Tom Barnes on April 19, 2010 • ( 35 )

  

  The Buena Vista threw open its doors on July 4th, 1924 to an admiring crowd of eager spectators.   Built on a larger scale than the Tivoli, yet not matching the sweeping grandeur of the Edgewater Gulf, the Buena Vista would… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: Columbus Motel

  By ELMalvaney on April 15, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

• Vacation Postcards: Sea Gull Tourist Court

  By ELMalvaney on April 13, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  “March 3, 1956, Sat. eve., Got in here today, rained all nite, a welcome rain. the azaleas and camellias are just beautiful here, I marked where we are on other side. Lots of people here, are next door to a… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: Ramada Inn, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on April 12, 2010 • ( 6 )

  

• MissPres News Roundup 4-10-2010

  By W. White on April 10, 2010 • ( 4 )

  I have not had the time to sift through newspapers, thanks to end of the semester work, merely search online. Since there is a lot of important preservation news in the major communities, I have been able to pull together… Read More ›

• Vacation Postcards: Prentiss Motel, Natchez

  By ELMalvaney on April 9, 2010 • ( 3 )

  

• Vacation Postcards: Downtowner Motor Inn, Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on April 7, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  “March 17, 1969: Tried to call you Sat. noon at 12:00 (1:00 PM your time) but no answer. So far I wish you were with us–only 18 with bus driver–so we all have a seat by ourselves and even extras…. Read More ›

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