Preservation in Mississippi

Recent Posts - page 89

• Yankee Stadium Update

  By ELMalvaney on August 9, 2009 • ( 0 )

  There’s an interesting follow-up by Paul Goldberger on the future of old Yankee Stadium in this week’s New Yorker, in which the debate appears to be whether to save one gate or not. These guys don’t deserve Yankee Stadium anymore–may… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 8-7-2009

  By ELMalvaney on August 7, 2009 • ( 4 )

  Well, get out your event calendars, Ladies and Gentlemen, because we’ve got a lot of ’em coming up announced in the last week or two: August 25, 2009 will find you sitting impatiently in front of the television, with your antenna… Read More ›

• Lost Mississippi: Benton Elementary School

  By ELMalvaney on August 6, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  You may remember from Monday’s post “Mississipp’s Outstanding Post-War Schools” that the elementary school at Benton in Yazoo County was included in a list of Mississippi’s best school buildings constructed between 1945 and 1951.  I also noted that this particular building was no… Read More ›

• Back from Lexington

  By ELMalvaney on August 5, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  In yesterday’s post, we drove up Hwy 17 and got into Lexington where we saw the courthouse, the jail, the hospital, and the old stagecoach inn. Today we’ll complete our whirlwind tour by heading out from the square and looking at… Read More ›

• To Lexington (Miss.) and Back

  By ELMalvaney on August 4, 2009 • ( 7 )

  

  Well, I haven’t done a “To . . . and Back” posting of late, mainly because when summer really comes in, I usually don’t get much farther (or is it “further”?) than my front porch–anything else just takes too much… Read More ›

• Mississippi’s Outstanding Post-War Schools

  By ELMalvaney on August 3, 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  It’s totally normal (I’m sure you would agree) to collect books like American School and University, and as I was flipping through the 1950-51 (22nd annual) edition, I came across a chapter called “America’s Outstanding School Buildings (built since 1945).”… Read More ›

• Visitor Centers-Bah!

  By ELMalvaney on August 2, 2009 • ( 2 )

  For your Sunday afternoon reading pleasure, and in light of my recent musings on the National Park Service and on the fate of heritage sites, may I suggest this article from Architectural Record’s March 2009 issue, “Rolling out the unwelcome mat for… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 7-31-2009

  By ELMalvaney on July 31, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  Can you believe it’s almost August? After our horrible hot dry June, July has flown by with beautiful rain, coolish nights, and not-very-hot days. This is my kind of summer! This week has been very eventful, and in a good… Read More ›

• National Register and Other Simple Tools

  By ELMalvaney on July 30, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the value of the non-flashy National Register, I wanted to mention how struck I was with the book Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks and its emphasis on the importance of simple… Read More ›

• In Defense of the National Register

  By ELMalvaney on July 29, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  I planned to write this particular post when I first started this blog, way back in the Dark Ages of February, but for some reason, I’ve only just now gotten around to it. I felt the need to defend the… Read More ›

• Campus Research Resources

  By ELMalvaney on July 28, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Last week, our crack researcher Carunzel, referenced the “CIC Historic Campus Architecture Project (HCAP)” in a reply to Day 3 of the contest, Woodworth Chapel at Tougaloo College. It reminded me of that website, which I am now including in the… Read More ›

• Old Newspaper Clippings: Saving the Madison County Courthouse

  By ELMalvaney on July 27, 2009 • ( 0 )

  A group of dedicated researchers in Canton has put together a notebook of newspaper clippings and other primary source materials titled “Madison County History Preserved,” and I was fortunate enough to have a colleague show it to me. Glancing through it,… Read More ›

• A Little Tidbit About the South Delta Housing Authority

  By ELMalvaney on July 25, 2009 • ( 1 )

  Here’s an interesting little article I saw yesterday in the Clarion-Ledger about a lawsuit against the South Delta Regional Housing Authority: http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009907240344. As you might recall from Shame of the South Delta Regional Housing Authority”, the SDRHA demolished the National Register-listed… Read More ›

• Final Standings for July09 Name This Place

  By ELMalvaney on July 24, 2009 • ( 5 )

  As I’m sure you all knew because you woke up early this morning to check, doakley won this month’s contest with a wild guess that just happened to be correct. With that daily victory, doakley also set a record for most wins… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 7-24-09

  By ELMalvaney on July 24, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s some goings-on that you might find interesting. July 12, 2009: An obituary in the Hays (FL) Daily News for architect and planner Raymond L. Eaton, who died July 7, 2009. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Eaton was a partner… Read More ›

• July09 Name This Place #5–Who Will Win?

  By ELMalvaney on July 24, 2009 • ( 8 )

  

  To recap: Joseph A grabbed an early lead with Monday’s spot-on identification of the Washington County Courthouse in Greenville. But then doakley, obviously a morning person, jumped into the fray and took the lead with a win each of the next… Read More ›

• Chance to Earn Extra Points

  By ELMalvaney on July 23, 2009 • ( 12 )

  Yesterday, through much searching, Carunzel came up with the architect and builder of the Washington County Courthouse. You can add an extra point to your score if you are able to name one of the other buildings constructed in the… Read More ›

• July09 Name This Place #4

  By ELMalvaney on July 23, 2009 • ( 10 )

  

  We’re getting down to the nitty-gritty, and hopefully this one will be a little more of a challenge. Ya’ll are getting too smart for me. To play this exciting week-long game, see The Rules. Daily Winners: Monday: Joseph A Tuesday:… Read More ›

• July09 Name This Place #3

  By ELMalvaney on July 22, 2009 • ( 13 )

  

  To play this exciting week-long game, see The Rules. Daily Winners: Monday: Joseph A Tuesday: doakley Current Standings: Joseph A: 2 points doakley: 2 points Carunzel: 2 points tsj1957: 1 point Theodore: 1 point

• July09 Name This Place #2

  By ELMalvaney on July 21, 2009 • ( 10 )

  

  To play this exciting week-long game, see The Rules. Congratulations to Joseph A for grabbing the first points yesterday. Today we’ll go to a different part of the state and a different era. Current Standings: Joseph A: 2 points tsj1957:… Read More ›

• July09 Name This Place #1

  By ELMalvaney on July 20, 2009 • ( 16 )

  

  Here we are at the beginning of another contest that will reveal who knows the most about the architecture of the Magnolia State. Review the rules for this contest by clicking here Hint to get you started: This building still… Read More ›

• Get Ready to Ruummmble! Another Contest of Skill and Daring

  By ELMalvaney on July 19, 2009 • ( 2 )

  I don’t know about ya’ll, but I certainly enjoyed the first annual/whenever-I-feel-like-it Name This Place contest last month, in which loyal readers battled for a trip to an exotic locale. For those of you who weren’t around these parts last… Read More ›

• Battle of the Tour Buses

  By ELMalvaney on July 18, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  I had to actually Laugh Out Loud when I saw the cover of the New Yorker this week. It depicts two triple-decker tour buses passing on a narrow street in Manhattan, blazing away at each other with cannons like two battleships…. Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 7-17-2009

  By ELMalvaney on July 17, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Ok, while our friends in Greenville work on unraveling the mysterious funding structure of the South Delta Regional Housing Authority, let’s look around the state for historic preservation news, hopefully of a better sort than demolitions . . . July 11, 2009: Here’s… Read More ›

• Shame on the South Delta Regional Housing Authority

  By ELMalvaney on July 16, 2009 • ( 12 )

  

  On Tuesday (7-13), the South Delta Regional Housing Authority (SDRHA), a quasi-governmental agency located in Leland and apparently funded solely or mostly through the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), demolished the oldest house in Greenville, a building… Read More ›

• Lost Mississippi: Institute for the Blind, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on July 15, 2009 • ( 23 )

  

  In response to a reader’s request after last week’s School for the Blind post, it seemed only fitting that I follow up that first-ever in the “Abandoned Mississippi” series with a first-ever “Lost Mississippi” post about the institution that preceded… Read More ›

• Whither House Museums?

  By ELMalvaney on July 14, 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  Since we’re on the subject of heritage sites and the role of public history (and when I say “we” I mean “I”), I thought I would share a link I came across in my vast amounts of research on the… Read More ›

• ‹ Older Entries
• Newer Entries ›