Preservation in Mississippi

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• Newspaper Clippings: A Plea for North State Street’s Preservation

  By ELMalvaney on September 9, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  Earlier this year, as you may remember, a book from Arcadia Press authored by Todd Sanders of MDAH, looked at the history and evolution of North State Street from a corridor of antebellum and Victorian mansions to the commercial hodge-podge it… Read More ›

• A 10 Most Reminder and a New Addition to MissPres

  By ELMalvaney on September 8, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Remember that the 10 Most Endangered Places Unveiling will take place at Union Station in downtown Jackson this Thursday evening. Don’t worry about what to wear–my tickets say “business casual” which I take to mean dressed up if you want, less-dressed-up if… Read More ›

• Happy Labor Day

  By ELMalvaney on September 7, 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  For all those who, like me, didn’t really think Mississippi had labor unions, this little clip from the Dec. 8, 1946 edition of the Jackson Daily News about the Carpenters and Joiners new union hall on South State Street: It’s… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 9-4-2009

  By ELMalvaney on September 4, 2009 • ( 0 )

  The official sponsor of this week’s News Roundup is White Shoes: Wear ’em While You Can. Well, after spending the last two weeks on the Coast, we have to bring ourselves back to reality and acknowledge that the rest of the… Read More ›

• Katrina Survivors: Regular People Saving Their History

  By ELMalvaney on September 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  We’ve spent the last two weeks looking at lost landmarks and restored landmarks on the Coast after Katrina, but I wanted to end this series by recognizing that the vast majority of preservation work on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast since 2005… Read More ›

• Katrina Survivors: Charnley House(s), Ocean Springs

  By ELMalvaney on September 2, 2009 • ( 7 )

  

  Those of us who had the opportunity to see the Charnley house and its small guest house next door with the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) tour in 2003 were fortunate to walk through this amazing “beach house” and… Read More ›

• Katrina Survivors: Randolph School, Pass Christian

  By ELMalvaney on September 1, 2009 • ( 5 )

  

  Randolph School (1928), Pass Christian, photo courtesy Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File Database Across the Coast, the railroad tracks formed a levee that protected the neighborhoods to the north from the massive storm surge of Hurricane Katrina. Waveland and… Read More ›

• Katrina Survivors: Beauvoir

  By ELMalvaney on August 31, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  After last week’s long trail of lost landmarks, I thought we should brighten up the mood a little with a few survivor stories that show that all was not lost. There are still historic places on the Coast (and inland)… Read More ›

• Lost to Katrina: Tullis-Toledano Manor (1856-2005)

  By ELMalvaney on August 29, 2009 • ( 8 )

  

  from National Register nomination, August 1976: As one of the most substantial and elaborate of the vacation homes constructed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast during the early peak period of the area’s popularity in the 1850s, the Pradat/Toledano/Philbrick/Tullis House is… Read More ›

• Lost to Katrina: Farnsworth Summer House, Pascagoula (1898-2005)

  By ELMalvaney on August 28, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  from the National Register of Historic Places nomination, 1991: Originally from Kentucky, [R.A.] Farnsworth acquired the Hunter-Behn Lumber Company and renamed it Farnsworth Lumber Company. . . .901 Beach was built as a summer home or beach house, as the… Read More ›

• Lost to Katrina: Louis Sullivan House (1890-2005)

  By ELMalvaney on August 27, 2009 • ( 5 )

  

  From The Architectural Record, June 1905, “The Home of an Artist-Architect–The Place of Louis Sullivan“: Down in the sunny South, between New Orleans and Mobile, where the sparkling waters of the Gulf of Mexico makes one of its beautiful indentations,… Read More ›

• Lost to Katrina (etc.): East Ward School (1921-2008)

  By ELMalvaney on August 26, 2009 • ( 6 )

  

  The Mississippi Coast has such a rich 19th-century history that sometimes the 20th century gets short shrift, and maybe the fate of East Ward School, built in 1921 and designed in an eclectic combination of the Prairie and Craftsman styles… Read More ›

• Lost to Katrina: Pass Christian Town Library (c.1853-2005)

  By ELMalvaney on August 25, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  From “Project Description, Pass Christian Town Library & School,” by the Pass Christian Historical Society, 2003: ‘Mrs. Roosevelt was so much impressed with your library she made me go around to see it myself. You are doing just the kind… Read More ›

• Lost to Katrina: Elmwood Manor, Bay St. Louis (1812-2005)

  By ELMalvaney on August 24, 2009 • ( 11 )

  

  From the National Register summary (1986) One of the earliest, extant buildings in Bay St. Louis, Elmwood Manor is a significant example of the French Colonial style of architecture in the community. No other buildings remaining from the early 19th… Read More ›

• Roll Call of Landmarks Lost to Katrina

  By ELMalvaney on August 23, 2009 • ( 5 )

  

  This coming Saturday will be the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s destructive rage across Mississippi’s Coast. In the spirit of the newspaper clipping re-printed here for the Camille anniversary, I’ll begin this week of remembrance with a listing of Mississippi’s… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-21-2009

  By ELMalvaney on August 21, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  The official song for this week’s News Roundup is . . . “Cocacabana.” Begin humming as we whirl around the state of MS: The Summer 2009 issue of “The Wellspring” (scroll to page 5) gives a nice update on the progress… Read More ›

• Abandoned Mississippi: Yazoo County Agricultural High School

  By ELMalvaney on August 20, 2009 • ( 31 )

  

  In 1912 the Yazoo County Agricultural High School was located at Benton, and it is one of the largest and best of its kind in the state. [A] few years later a Consolidated High School was located here, graveled roads… Read More ›

• Oh yeah? Well our Capitol has electric lights!

  By ELMalvaney on August 19, 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  I saw this postcard on eBay (which I usually try to avoid in order to flee temptation) and had to buy it because it seemed a little spooky (it’s actually a little darker in real life). When I got the… Read More ›

• SAH Civil Rights Memorial Study Tour

  By ELMalvaney on August 18, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  The Society of Architectural Historians has recently announced an intriguing tour of Civil Rights memorials in Georgia and Alabama, October 8-12, 2009. According to the SAH website, the four-day tour will begin in Atlanta, visiting Auburn Avenue and the Atlanta… Read More ›

• Remembering Hurricane Camille

  By ELMalvaney on August 17, 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  From the Biloxi Daily Herald, “Landmarks Lost During Camille,” by Emily Germanis, August 16, 1970: “Historically speaking, the Mississippi Gulf Coast received a great blow as a result of Hurricane Camille. At least 15 well known landmarks were wiped out, others… Read More ›

• A few bloggy changes

  By ELMalvaney on August 16, 2009 • ( 5 )

  I’ve been told unequivocally that “Change is Bad.” However, I’ve been a busy little beaver this weekend adding a few gadgets (or widgets as we bloggers call them) to Preservation in Mississippi. First, you’ll notice over at the top right… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-14-09

  By ELMalvaney on August 14, 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  Well, what’s been going on this week around our fair state? Before we begin, let me just put this fact out there: August is my least favorite month, so I’m liable to be especially cranky and hard-to-please, so bear with… Read More ›

• The International Style: Conformity, not Individualism

  By ELMalvaney on August 14, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  You have reached the end of a four-part series about The International Style by Henry Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson. If you missed the earlier posts, you can find them here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. ———————————————————— Way back… Read More ›

• The International Style: Regularity, not Symmetry

  By ELMalvaney on August 13, 2009 • ( 10 )

  

  Since I spend a good part of my life writing and reading descriptions of buildings, I naturally love symmetrical buildings. It’s so easy and simple to describe, say a Georgian Revival building, even a big building: center entrance with transom… Read More ›

• The International Style: Volume, not Mass

  By ELMalvaney on August 12, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  For me, the last concept to click about Hitchcock and Johnson’s definition of the International style was the subject of the very first chapter, “A First Principle: Architecture as Volume.”

• Book Quotes: The International Style

  By ELMalvaney on August 11, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  It’s been a while since we did a book quote series, and since the three earlier series included a diatribe against Modern planning principles (Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of the Great American Cities), a polemic against Modern architectural design (Tom Wolfe’s… Read More ›

• An Architectural Bonanza in the Clarion-Ledger

  By ELMalvaney on August 10, 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  Was I in heaven this weekend? Was it a dream? I think there were not one, not two, but three really informative articles about architecture in the Clarion-Ledger. I know I usually leave such things to Friday’s News Roundup, but… Read More ›

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