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• Name This Place #5

  By ELMalvaney on June 12, 2009 • ( 16 )

  

  To play this exciting game, see The Rules. Today is the final contest in this series. Today, a winner will emerge (I hope)! Current Standings: tsj1957: 6 points Carunzel: 4 points doakley: 2 points Everyone Else: Total Losers Hint: This… Read More ›

• Name This Place #4

  By ELMalvaney on June 11, 2009 • ( 6 )

  

  To play this exciting game, see The Rules. We got ourselves a competition going! Current Standings: Carunzel: 4 tsj1957: 4 doakley: 2 Everyone Else: 0 (still time to catch up!) Hint: This building is in the Delta. Note: I’m going… Read More ›

• Name This Place #3

  By ELMalvaney on June 10, 2009 • ( 7 )

  

  To play this exciting game, see The Rules. Current Standings:  Carunzel: 3 tsj1957: 2 doakley: 1 Everyone Else: 0 (still plenty of time to catch up!) Hint: This place has never appeared in Preservation in Mississippi or on my Flickr… Read More ›

• Name This Place #2

  By ELMalvaney on June 9, 2009 • ( 10 )

  

  To play this exciting game, see The Rules. The Standings So Far:   tsj1957:  2 points, Carunzel: 1 point, Everyone Else: 0 points Hint: This building is from a completely different century than yesterday’s building.

• Dealing with Difficult Histories

  By ELMalvaney on June 9, 2009 • ( 8 )

  

  I don’t know if any of you saw this article in Sunday’s Clarion-Ledger (“When Art Offends,” June 7, 2009) about the awkwardness of the Depression-era mural in Jackson’s Eastland federal courthouse–what to do about the stereotypical and degrading depictions of the black characters… Read More ›

• Name This Place #1

  By ELMalvaney on June 8, 2009 • ( 10 )

  

  To be a part of this exciting game, see The Rules. Hint: This photo, with caption appeared in a Preservation in Mississippi post in March, 2009.

• “Name This Place,” An Exciting Contest!

  By ELMalvaney on June 8, 2009 • ( 0 )

  This week, to celebrate that I still haven’t turned on my air conditioning this year even though it’s already the second week of June and we’re in Mississippi, we’re going to play a little game, or if you prefer–as a more mature… Read More ›

• Enjoying People Who Enjoy History

  By ELMalvaney on June 7, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I heard this story on NPR today about the keepers of the old Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105082304). They interviewed a man whose father had worked there and who now follows in his footsteps tending to the cemetery. He knew all… Read More ›

• Military-Themed Day Trip to Hattiesburg

  By ELMalvaney on June 5, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  Those of you who love both military history (and really, what’s not to love about guns and tanks and troop movements?) and museums have probably already checked out the Mississippi Armed Forced Museum at Camp Shelby. Camp Shelby, of course, has been… Read More ›

• Demolition Permit for old Baptist Church in Natchez

  By ELMalvaney on June 4, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  Well, I should know better than to write a positive post because sure enough, there’s always bad news following behind it. That’s why I tell kids, “Be a pessimist–you’ll never be disappointed!” Anyway, after yesterday’s good news about the Mannsdale-Livingston… Read More ›

• Preservation Victory in . . . Madison the County?

  By ELMalvaney on June 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  I know, I know, most people, including me, don’t equate the upscale suburban sprawl that is Madison County with preservation, but in fact, the preservationists who have banded together to protect the rural community of Mannsdale-Livingston, now being pulled into… Read More ›

• MDAH CLG Grants, 2009

  By ELMalvaney on June 2, 2009 • ( 0 )

  While looking at the History Newsletter on the MDAH website, I noticed (albeit very belatedly) that MDAH has also announced their Certified Local Government grants for this year. Just in case you missed it, here’s the most relevant part of… Read More ›

• MDAH Preservation Boot Camp 2009

  By ELMalvaney on June 2, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I saw this interesting bit in the Mississippi History Newsletter that the Mississippi Dept. of Archives & History puts out monthly. I notice that now they’ve started posting the newsletter online too, which is helpful. Free Preservation Boot Camp Set… Read More ›

• Happy (?) Hurricane Season

  By ELMalvaney on June 1, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  This isn’t really a preservation-related post, I guess, but it is Mississippi-related, so I at least cover half my blog title. Today, June 1, is an important day in the Mississippi calendar: it’s the beginning of hurricane season. Growing up on the Gulf… Read More ›

• Models in Vicksburg

  By ELMalvaney on May 29, 2009 • ( 0 )

  No, I’m not talking about the kind of models that walk the runway looking thin and sullen, I’m returning to the subject of cool architectural models. Well, they’re all cool of course, but I had no idea that we had… Read More ›

• Sun-n-Sand More Endangered Than Before

  By ELMalvaney on May 28, 2009 • ( 8 )

  

  <img class=”size-full wp-image-1569 ” title=”SunSandfront” src=”https://misspreservation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/sunsandfront.jpg&#8221; alt=”Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel by One of the Mississippi Heritage Trust’s Most Endangered historic properties became even more so this month when the Mississippi Legislature voted to move toward acquisition of the property in Jackson, just west… Read More ›

• Fire at Historic Stewart M. Jones School

  By ELMalvaney on May 27, 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  Fire broke out at Laurel’s Stewart M. Jones Middle School last Friday evening, gutting one of the three wings of the historic building.  The school building, one of the finest examples of high-style Georgian Revival in the state, was built in 1927… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Robert K. Overstreet (1924-2009)

  By ELMalvaney on May 26, 2009 • ( 7 )

  

  Those of you who don’t read the obituaries every day might have missed the notice of the death of Robert K. Overstreet last week. Overstreet was the son of our famous Jackson architect N.W. Overstreet and he was also a… Read More ›

• Memorial Day, 2009

  By ELMalvaney on May 25, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

• A Reason for Me to Camp Out at Toys-R-Us

  By ELMalvaney on May 24, 2009 • ( 1 )

  A Lego Guggenheim? Incredibly cool . . . . http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104465622

• How Buildings Learn: Some Closing Thoughts

  By ELMalvaney on May 23, 2009 • ( 0 )

  After a week of looking back through Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn, I’m left with a sense of contradiction in my own thoughts on High Road, Low Road, etc. I completely agree with him about Magazine Architecture and the devastation… Read More ›

• How Buildings Learn: Defining Vernacular

  By ELMalvaney on May 22, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Well, once again we’ve reached the end of a week, and I have tons more book to cover. But I’m just going to pick out a few bits from Stewart Brand’s chapter called “Vernacular: How Buildings Learn From Each Other.”… Read More ›

• How Buildings Learn: Preservation, Part 2

  By ELMalvaney on May 21, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Getting back to our very favorite chapter in How Buildings Learn,” Preservation: A Quiet, Populist, Conservative, Victorious Revolution.” I love typing that title! Brand spends some time discussing the history of the preservation movement. Personally, I’ll admit that until much… Read More ›

• How Buildings Learn: Preservationists Are Soooo Cool!

  By ELMalvaney on May 20, 2009 • ( 0 )

  There are so many interesting things in the chapter “Preservation: A Quiet, Populist, Conservative, Victorious Revolution” (wow–count me in!) in How Buildings Learn that I believe I’m going to have to break it into two days. Today, we’ll concentrate on… Read More ›

• How Buildings Learn: From High Road to Unreal Estate

  By ELMalvaney on May 19, 2009 • ( 2 )

  How Buildings Learn tries to accomplish alot that I won’t be able to adequately cover here. I’ll try to hit the high points, the ones that made the most impression on me, and leave the rest for you to find when… Read More ›

• Book Quotes: How Buildings Learn

  By ELMalvaney on May 18, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  I read Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn way back in 1997, and it was when I really began to understand and appreciate vernacular architecture. The thesis of the book is that buildings change over time based on the needs of the users–sometimes… Read More ›

• Celebrating 100 Posts (and More to Come)

  By ELMalvaney on May 17, 2009 • ( 2 )

  For those of you who haven’t been counting my posts, that last one? the really important and deeply philosophical one about Advanced Docent Testing? was my 100th. Bet you think I’ve got nothing left to say? You can only hope …. Read More ›

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