Preservation in Mississippi

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• Happy Easter

  By ELMalvaney on April 12, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

• Historic Windows/Energy Efficiency

  By ELMalvaney on April 11, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Post Ratings: Negativity: 3; Thoughtfulness: 3 Following up on my unexpectedly popular Green = Energy Efficient? here’s a good, in-depth discussion about historic windows. I like it because it counters the many myths about historic windows (and by extension historic buildings)… Read More ›

• New Book about North State Street, Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on April 10, 2009 • ( 1 )

  I noticed on the Arcadia Publishing webpage that a new Images of America book is coming out later this month focusing on North State Street in Jackson. Its author is Todd Sanders, an architectural historian with the Mississippi Dept. of… Read More ›

• Simpson County Courthouse, Mendenhall

  By ELMalvaney on April 9, 2009 • ( 6 )

  

  Earlier this week, I was coming back to Jackson on Hwy 49 and decided to swing off the highway into Mendenhall. It was such a nice day, albeit a little on the cool side, that I wanted to take some… Read More ›

• New Ratings System Unveiled!

  By ELMalvaney on April 9, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I’ve been berated by a reader–so much so that my lip started to quiver and I had to blink back tears–for having two posts in succession he calls “negative.” Now, let’s be clear, this reader, who I will call Theodore, is not my… Read More ›

• Green = Energy Efficient?

  By ELMalvaney on April 8, 2009 • ( 9 )

  The title of Richard Moe’s April 5th New York Times op-ed piece “This Old Wasteful House” made me wince. In fact, while reading it, I had to glance back at the name of the author several times to be sure that this… Read More ›

• Just to Clarify: Demolition ≠ Preservation

  By ELMalvaney on April 7, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  The Vicksburg Post has published a follow-up to its earlier story about the impending demolition of Speed Street School (1894), one of a handful of 19th century public school buildings left in the state. I posted previously on this topic a couple of… Read More ›

• Class on Architectural History in Jackson

  By ELMalvaney on April 7, 2009 • ( 0 )

  For those of you who missed the original post, or who had forgotten, or who haven’t checked out the handy Preservation in Mississippi calendar (surely no one could fit into all those categories at once?), the Millsaps Continuing Education class about… Read More ›

• Experience Mississippi!

  By ELMalvaney on April 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Waiting for me upon my return to the friendly confines of Mississippi was the brochure announcing the Mississippi Heritage Trust’s historic preservation conference Experience Mississippi! For those of you who skipped out on the Mississippi Historical Society’s conference (you know… Read More ›

• Red Hot Truck Stop, Meridian

  By ELMalvaney on April 4, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  In Friday morning’s SAH session on Architecture of the Road, Ethel Goodstein-Murphree of the University of Arkansas gave an enlightening paper called “The Common Place of the Common Carrier: The American Truck Stop.” She devoted a whole section to the Red… Read More ›

• When Next You’re in Malibu . . .

  By ELMalvaney on April 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  You simply must go see the Adamson House! It’s a state park right on the beach in Malibu, California with beautifully landscaping and an amazing house with a unique story. You can only go inside Wed-Sat from 11 -3, but it’s… Read More ›

• Fluidity in Architecture

  By ELMalvaney on April 2, 2009 • ( 1 )

  Tonight’s plenary talk was by respected architectural historian Dell Upton, Chair of the Dept. of Art History at UCLA and author of numerous books and articles, most recently Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic (Yale University… Read More ›

• California or Bust

  By ELMalvaney on April 1, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Occasionally, I am allowed–with close supervision of course and only for good behavior–out of the Great State of Mississippi. This week, I’m off to California to attend the annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in Pasadena. This conference… Read More ›

• Whence Beautiful Places?

  By ELMalvaney on March 31, 2009 • ( 5 )

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I found myself standing in the Spring sunlight at a farm in northern Mississippi along with a few other people. The matter at hand was whether the site, containing a modest ranch house, a wood… Read More ›

• Someone Please Give Me the Money to Buy This Place

  By ELMalvaney on March 30, 2009 • ( 6 )

  

  The Hermitage, Pearl River County’s most historic site, is for sale. I don’t know the exact asking price, except that it’s beyond me (only because my portfolio has taken such a hit, I mean, Bernie Madoff and all those other crooks made… Read More ›

• Katrina Recovery, A Second Disaster for Historic Places?

  By ELMalvaney on March 29, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  One of my many readers pointed me toward a really good article at Planetizen by Roberta Brandes Gratz of the Project for Public Spaces. The article, called “Citizen Recovery Efforts Hit Government Barriers in New Orleans” is about the trials of re-building… Read More ›

• For All You Theater/Theatre-Lovers Out There

  By ELMalvaney on March 28, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I just came upon this amazing website that’s attempting to build a database of all the movie theaters in the world. Ever! A lofty goal for sure, but it looks like they’re well on their way. They have 133 entries… Read More ›

• A Historic Survivor Rises Again in Waveland

  By ELMalvaney on March 27, 2009 • ( 7 )

  

  I had occasion to visit Waveland this week and saw that the old Waveland School, a brick building built in 1920, is completing finishing touches before its grand re-opening. As many of us know, Waveland took a straight shot from Katrina,… Read More ›

• Review: Mississippi Celebrates Architecture

  By ELMalvaney on March 26, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Earlier this week, I wandered over to the Mississippi Arts Pavilion in downtown Jackson with some friends (yes, I have a few) to check out the Mississippi Celebrates Architecture exhibit. The exhibit gathers several different collections into five rooms in… Read More ›

• Coolest Ole Miss Buildings

  By ELMalvaney on March 25, 2009 • ( 9 )

  

  I will now announce my much-anticipated nominations for “Coolest Ole Miss Buildings.” To appeal to all segments of my vast reading audience, I have two nominations: one from the 19th century, the other so far into the 20th century, you’ll… Read More ›

• To Ole Miss and Back

  By ELMalvaney on March 24, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  I spent a little time up Oxford way last week and enjoyed it immensely, mainly because the weather and the sunlight were so amazing that I would have had a major case of Spring Fever if I had been sitting inside…. Read More ›

• Speed Street School demolition

  By ELMalvaney on March 23, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  I saw this article last week, but since it’s pretty much a done deal and because it’s so depressing, I decided I didn’t want to destroy the beautiful symmetry of my Jane Jacobs’ series to insert it into last week’s… Read More ›

• Jane Jacobs/Robert Moses/Stimulus Bill

  By ELMalvaney on March 22, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  Check out these interesting posts over at ThinkMarkets about the possible effects of the stimulus bill’s infrastructure spending on neighborhoods and local social economies. I thought the references to Jane Jacobs were particularly timely given our little whirlwind tour through her… Read More ›

• Not (Completely) Buying the Coast Buyouts

  By ELMalvaney on March 22, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Three-and-a-half years after Hurricane Katrina, the Corps of Engineers has finally come up with a buyout plan for the Mississippi Gulf Coast to reduce property damage from future hurricanes. (See the Sun-Herald report of the last public meeting and a good… Read More ›

• The New Yankee Stadium

  By ELMalvaney on March 21, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Paul Goldberger has an interesting critique of the two new baseball stadia (which sounds so much more knowledgeable than “stadiums” don’t you think?) in New York City in this week’s New Yorker. Now, just because I read the New Yorker… Read More ›

• Book Quotes: Jane Jacobs on the Environment and Suburbia

  By ELMalvaney on March 20, 2009 • ( 0 )

  This is the last post in our series on Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of Great American Cities. I hope you’ve enjoyed it–if not, well, it’s over now. I have remembered so many good parts as I’ve gone back through the book,… Read More ›

• Book Quotes: Jane Jacobs on Old Buildings

  By ELMalvaney on March 19, 2009 • ( 4 )

  Number 4 in our series on Jane Jacobs’ seminal book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. In the chapter titled “The Need for Old Buildings” Jane Jacobs argues that, apart from any architectural considerations, every neighborhood needs a mixture… Read More ›

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