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• Name This Place 12.3.4

  By W. White on April 18, 2018 • ( 13 )

  

• Name This Place 12.3.3

  By W. White on April 18, 2018 • ( 23 )

  

• Name This Place 12.3.2

  By W. White on April 18, 2018 • ( 23 )

  

• Name This Place 12.3.1

  By W. White on April 18, 2018 • ( 22 )

  

  In Tuesday’s action, I generously awarded Tom Little and Suzassippi two points each for correctly identifing Patterson-Bradford Rexall Drugs in the first post, despite the fact that neither actually said it was in Jackson, with ed polk douglas, Pibbb, Thomas Rosell, and ELMalvaney also… Read More ›

• Name This Place 12.2.4

  By W. White on April 17, 2018 • ( 30 )

  

  Our last post for today.

• Name This Place 12.2.3

  By W. White on April 17, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

• Name This Place 12.2.2

  By W. White on April 17, 2018 • ( 19 )

  

• Name This Place 12.2.1

  By W. White on April 17, 2018 • ( 23 )

  

  In yesterday’s first post, ed polk douglas jumped out to the lead by correctly identifying the Tullis-Toledano House in Biloxi and providing a plethora of facts about the house, but Belinda2015, Helen Ellis, and sec040121 were still able to receive points… Read More ›

• Name This Place 12.1.3

  By W. White on April 16, 2018 • ( 11 )

  

  Our final photo for today.

• Name This Place 12.1.2

  By W. White on April 16, 2018 • ( 16 )

  

• Name This Place 12.1.1

  By W. White on April 16, 2018 • ( 17 )

  

  If you are just joining us, you have picked a great time. We are at the very start of the twelfth edition of our Name This Place contest, wherein MissPres readers battle for the much-coveted title of Mississippi Preservationist Extraordinaire. At the… Read More ›

• Name This Place XII: Lost Buildings Edition is Starting on Monday

  By W. White on April 15, 2018 • ( 14 )

  Name This Place is a week-long contest run occasionally here on Preservation in Mississippi that allows MissPres readers to show off their knowledge of Mississippi’s historic architecture and bring out their competitive juices by competing to see which reader who correctly identifies the… Read More ›

• The Friday Place

  By Thomas Rosell on April 13, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  From the West Point, Mississippi Court Street Historic District National Register nomination… 307 E. Westbrook Street. Vernacular Italianate. One-and-a-half-story, saltbox, gable-roof, stuccoed masonry and stuccoed frame residence: full-width hip-roof porch supported on Tuscan columns; Greek Revival tripartite entrance; attic story windows… Read More ›

• Mississippi’s National Historic Engineering Landmark

  By Thomas Rosell on April 12, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  Malvaney’s post at the end of March about the Historic American Engineering Record(HAER) drawings made me think about one of my favorite trivia questions.  What is Mississippi’s one National Historic Engineering Landmark? 

• Magee General Hospital: The Early Years

  By Suzassippi on April 11, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the many Mississippi projects under consideration for Public Works Administration funding in 1935 was the Magee General Hospital.  The state PWA office announced approvals for a number of new projects, and many more were proposed, but never funded. … Read More ›

• A Call for Mississippi’s Best Preservation Projects

  By Thomas Rosell on April 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) has issued a call for nominations for their “Best of the South” award, with nominations due July 1, 2018. As you may recall, Mississippi has snagged four of these awards in the past:… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 4-9-2018

  By Thomas Rosell on April 9, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  This week news stories from Oxford, to Jackson, to Biloxi.

• Friday Film: Rowan Oak, Oxford

  By ELMalvaney on April 6, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Friday Film: Rowan Oak, Oxford

• HABS in Mississippi: Rodney Presbyterian Church

  By ELMalvaney on April 5, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  As a reminder about the recent formation of the Rodney History and Preservation Society and how you might want to join in its mission to preserve remaining structures in historic Rodney, especially the Rodney Presbyterian Church, today’s HABS post is dedicated… Read More ›

• Before and After: MinTrads in Belhaven, 1940

  By ELMalvaney on April 4, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  These non-flashy houses are solid and fiscally responsible (which is very important to me and, I’m told, Tate Reeves) and have all the amenities I love in old houses, like conventional foundations, porches, wood floors, solid doors, and wood windows, along with original modern conveniences such as a decent-sized kitchen and nicely tiled bathrooms.

• Mississippi’s Best Buildings of 1972

  By Thomas Rosell on April 3, 2018 • ( 9 )

  

  This post is a follow up to a post from a few weeks back that stimulated quite a bit of conversation about appreciation of architecture from the late 1960s and early 1970s that are now reaching the golden fifty-year mark that buildings can be considered for listing on the National Register. The buildings in today’s post are less than five years from reaching their fiftieth birthday.  

• MissPres News Roundup 4-2-2018

  By Thomas Rosell on April 2, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  Let’s jump right into this week’s roundup. Remember you can catch the preservation news as it breaks in our Twitter sidebar to the right. =====>> Our lead story is from Lexington, about the arson investigation relating to the old Holmes… Read More ›

• Happy Easter AD 2018

  By ELMalvaney on April 1, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  From the historic marker: DR. KING VISITS LAUREL On March 19, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke here at St. Paul Methodist Church to rally support for the Poor People’s March on Washington against economic injustice. King told the… Read More ›

• HAER in Mississippi: Halls Ferry Bridge, Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on March 29, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  No, you read that right–“HAER.” I didn’t misspell HABS. The Historic American Engineering Record is the younger brother to the Historic American Building Survey, focusing its attention on engineered structures. The program is administered by the same office as HABS… Read More ›

• Mid-Century Mississippi: Jackson’s Hawkins Field in 1941

  By ELMalvaney on March 28, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Revised Plans Completed for Additions to City Airport Administration Building; Realtors Report Increased Rental Demands Release of revised plans to start work soon on a $12,500 addition to the administration airport building at Hawkins Field and current reports in real… Read More ›

• Join Rodney History & Preservation Society

  By ELMalvaney on March 27, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  The defunct river town of Rodney, Mississippi is one of our favorite places here on MissPres, and while it has continued to decline over the last several years, at the same time, a group of other people interested and willing… Read More ›

• MissPres News Roundup 3-26-2018

  By Thomas Rosell on March 26, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  Let’s jump right into this week’s roundup with news from Meridian, Philadelphia, Jackson, & Natchez.

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