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• Should auld acquaintance be forgot

  By ELMalvaney on December 28, 2009 • ( 8 )

  

  Well, we’ve gotten to that season when we make lists of things that have happened over the past year in preparation for the new year. To start off the week, we’ll take one last look at old friends we have… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas, Y’all

  By ELMalvaney on December 25, 2009 • ( 3 )

• A Christmas Eve Tradition

  By ELMalvaney on December 24, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Check out yesterday’s Clarion Ledger for a sweet commentary by Sid Salter about a family tradition he still carries on, visiting the old Williams Brothers General Store, outside of Philadelphia. The story reinforces the argument that preserving places–not just documents… Read More ›

• Jackson Details

  By ELMalvaney on December 23, 2009 • ( 14 )

  

  I realize that most of my loyal readers will be busy with other things the rest of this week, including making food, eating food, wrapping gifts, unwrapping gifts, eating food, and hopefully spending a few quiet moments of fellowship around… Read More ›

• Overstreet’s Plan for the Capitol Complex

  By ELMalvaney on December 22, 2009 • ( 5 )

  

  I thought this post would be especially interesting when read in light of the three-part article last week, which, if you missed, you can pick up at Part 1 here. While looking through the N.W. Overstreet subject file at MDAH a while… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 12-21-2009

  By ELMalvaney on December 21, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  Since I skipped the News Roundup on Friday in favor of a bunch of King Edward pictures, and since this Friday is Christmas, when I hope all of us will be spending time with family and/or friend(s) instead of checking… Read More ›

• King Edward Hotel Open Again

  By ELMalvaney on December 18, 2009 • ( 8 )

  

  Forty-four years after closing its doors, after suffering decades of neglect, vacancy, vandalism, and deterioration, Jackson’s landmark King Edward Hotel, the standard for glamorous 1920s hotels, re-opened for business yesterday after a ribbon-cutting ceremony. As every speaker said, this was… Read More ›

• Overstreet Interview, Part 3

  By ELMalvaney on December 17, 2009 • ( 7 )

  

  Here we are at the final segment of N.W. Overstreet’s 1940 interview at the Portland Cement Association’s Spring meeting published as “An Architect Reviews Five Years with Architectural Concrete.” If you missed the previous two segments, make sure to read… Read More ›

• Overstreet Interview, Part 2

  By ELMalvaney on December 16, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  We’re in the middle of a three-part transcription of a conversation between our own N.W. Overstreet, perhaps Mississippi’s most prominent 20th-century architect, and A.J. Boase, the manager of the Structural Bureau of the Portland Cement Association. The interview took place… Read More ›

• From the Archives: 1940 Overstreet Interview

  By ELMalvaney on December 15, 2009 • ( 8 )

  

  This week’s series will introduce you to an interview with our own N.W. Overstreet back in 1940. The interview was hosted by the Portland Cement Association at its Spring meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York and was published in the PCA’s magazine Architectural Concrete. This particular interview gives us insight not only into the technical aspects of Overstreet’s 1930s concrete buildings, but also (since we’ll never have the chance to interview him ourselves) shows us a little bit of his background, personality, and spirit.

• Get Ready for King Ed!

  By ELMalvaney on December 14, 2009 • ( 4 )

  I hope y’all can make it to the ribbon cutting for the new King Edward Hotel on Thursday morning at 10 AM. I’ve only been waiting for this for 13 years, but I know many of you out there have… Read More ›

• For Your Saturday Reading

  By ELMalvaney on December 12, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  An article in the Wall Street Journal about the 150-story Chicago Spire, unfortunately shaped like a screw: “Push to Finish Tallest Tower” And a strong opinion in the City Journal about Modernist guru Le Corbusier that begins “Le Corbusier was… Read More ›

• Deck the Historic Halls

  By ELMalvaney on December 11, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  In lieu of a News Roundup on this slow news week, and to help all you preservation-types get into the Christmas spirit, our friend J.R. Gordon gives us a report on last week’s “Old Jackson by Candlelight Tour,” an annual… Read More ›

• Bailey Jr. High and the Mystery of Life

  By ELMalvaney on December 10, 2009 • ( 10 )

  

  I recently noticed that Google has now archived the images from the Life magazine photo collection and also made all of the magazines in their full cover-to-cover glory available through a normal Google search. This has given me the opportunity… Read More ›

• CHPG Project Pictures

  By ELMalvaney on December 9, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  Ok, I’ve finally scrounged up photos of all the projects given grants in MDAH’s latest round of the Community Heritage Preservation Grant program. I always find it helpful to put a picture with the dollar amount so that I can… Read More ›

• Even more archt/builders pics: Brune, et al.

  By ELMalvaney on December 8, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  I’m still working on getting pictures of the MDAH CHPG projects, so in the meantime, I thought I would add another picture or two to our collection of architect and builder photos. These come from a source that Carunzel brought to my… Read More ›

• MDAH Announces CHP Grants

  By ELMalvaney on December 7, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  Besides our blizzard, the other exciting thing that happened Friday was the Mississippi Department of Archives and History announced the recipients of the latest round of Community Heritage Preservation Grants after a special meeting of the MDAH Board of Trustees…. Read More ›

• I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas

  By ELMalvaney on December 4, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  Dreams can come true . . .

• MissPres News Roundup 12-4-2009

  By ELMalvaney on December 4, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  As of this morning, the forecast is for snow, snow! in Jackson tonight. The best snow is the kind that comes and puts a nice quiet blanket on everything, and then goes away after enough time for everyone to get out… Read More ›

• Downtown Jackson in Detail

  By ELMalvaney on December 3, 2009 • ( 10 )

  

  While ya’ll have been pondering the deep thoughts from yesterday’s post, I’ve been wandering downtown Jackson again taking pictures of interesting details. Can you figure out where I’ve been?

• Why Preserve?

  By ELMalvaney on December 2, 2009 • ( 5 )

  

  An article titled “Why should ‘heritage’ be preserved?” popped up on my screen a couple of weeks ago, just before I went on my little Thanksgiving vacation, but I haven’t known quite what to say about it, so I’ve been trying to… Read More ›

• More Architect/Builder Pics: Link and Barnes

  By ELMalvaney on December 1, 2009 • ( 17 )

  

  I’m always on the hunt for pictures of the architects and builders who designed and built all these lovely buildings in our Magnolia State. Recently I came across not one but two in the same source, the Mississippi State House Commission… Read More ›

• Overly Loved Historic Buildings

  By ELMalvaney on November 30, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  I had a chance to go through lots of photos I’ve taken on my recent jaunts around the state, and I thought now might be a good time to bring up the topic of good intentions and how they pave the road to . . . well, to be blunt, Hades. I refer particularly to the state of being “loved to death” and how this sometimes happens to our beloved historic buildings around the state.

• Happy Thanksgiving (2009)

  By ELMalvaney on November 23, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  It’s Thanksgiving time again–time to enumerate just a few of things that make us thankful. So without further ado . . . I’m thankful for the Delta, the Piney Woods, the Hills, and yes, even those crazy Natchezians who add… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 11-20-2009

  By ELMalvaney on November 20, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  Well, here we are at Friday again–thank goodness! And next week is Thanksgiving, so it’s a short week for some, a long week for those with visitors staying in their homes. But I digress. Let’s look around for some news…. Read More ›

• The Edgewater Gulf Hotel, Queen of the Coast

  By Tom Barnes on November 19, 2009 • ( 59 )

  

  If one hotel alone were to capture the spirit and grandeur of the faded elegance of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the Edgewater Gulf would likely be the candidate for the honor. On February 26, 1926, ground was broken for the… Read More ›

• Checking in on New Orleans

  By ELMalvaney on November 18, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  The Atlantic Monthly has an interesting article about the architectural developments in the rebuilding of New Orleans, “Houses of the Future” by Wayne Curtis. Given the virtual absence of concentrated federal, state, or city re-development (except for wholesale demolition), a variety… Read More ›

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