Preservation in Mississippi

Recent Posts - page 92

• Advanced Testing for Docents

  By ELMalvaney on May 15, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Dear Prospective Advanced Docents: Before you may take this test, you must have passed the Beginning Host/Hostess Test, which you can find here. Passing this Advanced Docent Test will allow you to wear the special green Advanced Docent ribbon, which will ensure… Read More ›

• Where History Meets Architecture

  By ELMalvaney on May 14, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry… Read More ›

• Yay, National Trust!

  By ELMalvaney on May 13, 2009 • ( 2 )

  Sometimes the National Trust seems too wine-and-cheese for my tastes, but last week, the Trust got down and dirty when it brought a lawsuit against FEMA and the Veterans Administration for their trampling of preservation laws in New Orleans. All… Read More ›

• To Clarksdale and Back

  By ELMalvaney on May 12, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve been up to the Delta recently, all the way to Clarksdale. I love going to the Delta–any time of year, it’s always interesting and it seems to have a certain light that makes it all seem more lush. People… Read More ›

• MS Architects in Tallulah, LA

  By ELMalvaney on May 11, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  I’m always interested–and therefore you should be too–in finding what buildings Mississippi architects were doing in other states. Tallulah, Louisiana has two buildings (out of not a huge number) that we Mississippians can be proud of, Bloom’s Arcade (1930-31) by… Read More ›

• Life After People: Post-Apocalypse Meets Preservation

  By ELMalvaney on May 8, 2009 • ( 3 )

  I don’t know about ya’ll, but I have found the History Channel’s new series Life After People strangely fascinating. It combines two of my great loves–the post-apocalyptic genre and abandoned places–which means I probably should avoid getting sucked into it. But… Read More ›

• Preservation Month, Etc.

  By ELMalvaney on May 7, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I mentioned this last month beforehand, but in case you’ve already forgotten, the Images of America book about North State Street hit the shelves April 27 and there have been confirmed sightings at Lemuria here in Jackson and the History… Read More ›

• Cool Mid-Century Modern for sale in Funky Fondren

  By ELMalvaney on May 6, 2009 • ( 8 )

  Check out this very cool architect-designed house in my neighborhood, built in 1953 and now offered for sale. If I didn’t already have a house, I’d be buying it before letting anyone else know about it. http://731gardner.blogspot.com/ I should mention that… Read More ›

• NPS Stimulus Money in MS

  By ELMalvaney on May 5, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Speaking of money–loads and loads of money from Uncle Sam–the National Park Service has announced the projects it will be funding with its cut of the stimulus package. According to their state-by-state breakout, Mississippi will have 9 projects coming in… Read More ›

• Save America’s Treasures Grants

  By ELMalvaney on May 4, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Save America’s Treasures grant program’s deadline for grant applications for this year is coming up in a few weeks, May 22, 2009. For those of you not familiar with SAT (as those in the biz call it, not to be confused… Read More ›

• Testing for Tour Guides

  By ELMalvaney on May 1, 2009 • ( 2 )

  I heard this segment on NPR’s Marketplace the other day about an effort in Philadelphia (PA) to require tour guides in the historic areas to take a test and be licensed or face a $300 fine for doing tours. Tour guides… Read More ›

• Jackson’s Municipal Library

  By ELMalvaney on April 30, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  The Northside Sun published an article last week about the old Municipal Library in Jackson. Besides being a pretty cool Modern structure designed by the prominent Jackson firm of N.W. Overstreet & Associates, the building is significant for its Civil Rights… Read More ›

• Jane’s Walk in Mississippi

  By ELMalvaney on April 29, 2009 • ( 3 )

  Two Mississippi cities, Starkville and Jackson, will host Jane’s Walks this Saturday, May 2. Jane’s Walks are sponsored by the Center for the Living City as a way to commemorate the work of Jane Jacobs, who as you might remember wrote The… Read More ›

• MHT Preservation Curriculum

  By ELMalvaney on April 28, 2009 • ( 3 )

  At the MHT business luncheon on Friday, Lolly Barnes mentioned the MHT Preservation Curriculum, now undergoing testing with 10 master teachers around the state. Five (out of eight) lesson plans authored by Chuck Yarborough of the Mississippi School for Math and… Read More ›

• Experience Mississippi! Report

  By ELMalvaney on April 27, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Friday (4-24), I attended Experience Mississippi!, this year’s preservation conference sponsored jointly by the Mississippi Heritage Trust and the Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History. We met in the Old Capitol’s House of Representatives chamber. The theme of the conference… Read More ›

• Mies, Mies, van der roh-ha

  By ELMalvaney on April 25, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  So after a week of berating Mies van der Rohe and his Mieslings for everything bad in architecture, here’s a little video that presents a different perspective. It’s guaranteed to keep you humming its catchy tune while you do your… Read More ›

• From Bauhaus to Our House: Apostates and Post-Modernists

  By ELMalvaney on April 24, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Ok, since it’s Friday, let’s finish up on From Bauhaus to Our House. The last two chapters deal with the architects who strayed from the Modernist compounds and were ostracised from the hip and cool in-crowd. These included Edward Durell… Read More ›

• From Bauhaus to Our House: The destruction of craftsmanship

  By ELMalvaney on April 23, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Wolfe points out in chapter 4, “Escape to Islip,” the irony that while the 20th century was the American Century, the architecture that defined that century was primarily a European import. In the same chapter, he also touches upon what he… Read More ›

• From Bauhaus to Our House: Architectural Education Overthrown

  By ELMalvaney on April 22, 2009 • ( 0 )

  In chapter three of From Bauhaus to Our House, “The White Gods,” Tom Wolfe recounts what he sees as the almost instant change in course in American architecture after the German Modernists began arriving in the late 1930s as refugees… Read More ›

• From Bauhaus to Our House: Wolfe Does Not ♥ Gropius

  By ELMalvaney on April 21, 2009 • ( 7 )

  To start off From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe looks at the architectural scene in Europe after World War I. The picture he paints is one of confusion in the arts and an increasing tendency to spend more time… Read More ›

• Book Quotes: From Bauhaus to Our House

  By ELMalvaney on April 20, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I recently read–finally, way after I should have–Tom Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House. Published in 1981, this is not a scholarly work, but it’s a passionate rejection of Modernist architecture and its practitioners. According to the copyright page, most… Read More ›

• Dean Morris Alexander, Jackson preservationist extraordinaire

  By ELMalvaney on April 18, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Check out this article in this week’s Northside Sun about Dean Morris Alexander, doyen of the 500 block of North State Street here in Jackson. I love articles like this because they shine a much-deserved light on people who have… Read More ›

• And the winner is . . .

  By ELMalvaney on April 17, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  You’ve finally reached the exciting conclusion to the epic trilogy of Columbus Pilgrimage. I know you’ve been anxiously awaiting the announcement of my favorite house on the tour. If only I knew how to do a drumroll here. I guess… Read More ›

• Columbus Pilgrimage Report, Part 2

  By ELMalvaney on April 16, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  I was reminded yesterday morning that I didn’t actually say what houses I had seen on the Columbus Pilgrimage. I admit that while I was writing Tuesday’s post, I got distracted by my worry that Jack Bauer might die a terrible death… Read More ›

• The Tax Man Cometh

  By ELMalvaney on April 15, 2009 • ( 0 )

  It’s tax day, ya’ll! You know what you have to do: count up all the doors and windows in your house (jib doors count as two doors and one window), also count each room including closets. Any wardrobes if you… Read More ›

• Columbus Pilgrimage Report

  By ELMalvaney on April 14, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  I spent two days last week making the rounds at the Columbus Pilgrimage, my first time at that pilgrimage. Stayed at the Lincoln House, behind the Amzi Love House, which was nice–enjoyed walking out through the jib windows and sitting on the… Read More ›

• NR Joins Flickr

  By ELMalvaney on April 13, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Wow, the National Register office is getting so hip to the lingo, they’re now posting photos on Flickr! I’m not sure whether they plan to add all the National Register photos from their entire collection from the last 40 years or… Read More ›

• ‹ Older Entries
• Newer Entries ›