Preservation in Mississippi

Recent Posts - page 95

• The Return of Modernism

  By ELMalvaney on February 17, 2009 • ( 4 )

  All this has happened before, and will happen again. At least that’s what I’ve learned from 4 seasons of Battlestar Galactica, along with lots of impenetrable mythology.  So, I shouldn’t be surprised that Modernism has come back around. To me, the resurrection… Read More ›

• Great Source for Digital Photographs

  By ELMalvaney on February 16, 2009 • ( 0 )

  For those of you who haven’t scrolled down that far yet (you know who you are!), I’ve added a new feature on the bottom of the left-hand column of the page that’s linked to a very useful and interesting Flickr… Read More ›

• Mayflower Cafe: A Real Place

  By ELMalvaney on February 15, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  On any given Saturday evening when the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra is in season, you’re liable to find me and my honey ensconced in a booth at the Mayflower Cafe in downtown Jackson. The Mayflower is one of those rare but beautiful… Read More ›

• Looking at the Recent Past

  By ELMalvaney on February 13, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  For those of us who enjoy the architecture of the mid-to-late-20th century as much as that from the 19th or 18th (well, maybe not “as much” but still a lot . . .) the Recent Past Preservation Network has a new… Read More ›

• Preservation and Exploration

  By ELMalvaney on February 13, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  Over at Preservation in Pink Kaitlin muses about the “Urban Exploration Movement.”  She asks: “Urban Explorers aren’t the typical preservationists, but are their hearts in the right place? Or would something like this have a negative effect? After all, preservation is more than… Read More ›

• Historic Schools/Stimulus Package (II)

  By ELMalvaney on February 13, 2009 • ( 0 )

  More specific information from the Christian Science Monitor about what the allegedly final stimulus package contains:  Local school districts get to divvy up $40 billion for paying teachers and school upgrades.  But importantly for preservation and in contrast to Pres. Obama’s statements about… Read More ›

• Historic Schools and the Stimulus Package

  By ELMalvaney on February 12, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  Always on the prowl for news that might affect historic schools, I found this in the New York Times summary of the almost-passed stimulus bill: The plan would shower the nation’s school districts, child care centers and university campuses with $150… Read More ›

• Delta Queen (II)

  By ELMalvaney on February 12, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Matt Hurley at Weapons of Mass Discussion concludes “It is amazing that this situation hasn’t been fixed yet…”  I totally agree–it seems obvious to me that grounding the Delta Queen is the wrong thing to do. Everyone wants safety, of… Read More ›

• Keeping the Delta Queen Afloat

  By ELMalvaney on February 12, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  For those of you who love old steamboats, the National Historic Landmark Delta Queen is the gold standard but its future is in doubt because Congress has refused to exempt it, as it has in previous years, from fire safety… Read More ›

• Friends of the Beverly on Facebook

  By ELMalvaney on February 12, 2009 • ( 12 )

  

  I’m not hip enough, or possibly social enough, to be on Facebook, but I know lots of people are. A group has gathered there to work to preserve the historic (and very cool) Beverly Drive-In Theater, Hattiesburg’s icon of cheeseburgers,… Read More ›

• Resources for Keeping Your Historic School

  By ELMalvaney on February 12, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Kaitlin brought up in her comment about President Obama’s rather disparaging reference to historic schools that the National Trust has done a lot of work in the past decade or so to help local citizens talk to their school boards… Read More ›

• Meridian’s Historic Photographs

  By ELMalvaney on February 11, 2009 • ( 1 )

  I spend a lot of my time in life, believe it or not, looking for new stashes of information about our historic buildings and towns around the state. So imagine how happy I was to just stumble out of the… Read More ›

• Still Fighting the Good Fight

  By ELMalvaney on February 11, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  In an otherwise very depressing article about abandoned housing in Jackson (third in a series) in the Clarion-Ledger, I found a beam of light in Marcia Weaver, leader in the successful effort back in the early 1990s to get a… Read More ›

• Obama on Historic Schools

  By ELMalvaney on February 11, 2009 • ( 3 )

  Some thoughts from the National Trust blog about President Obama’s statement during his press conference last night.  Here’s what he said that made me (and I think a lot of us who love old buildings) go “AAAAAK!” “Education — yet… Read More ›

• Mississippi Historical Society Annual Mtg.

  By ELMalvaney on February 10, 2009 • ( 0 )

  The Mississippi Historical Society has just announced its annual meeting for this year. It will be held at the newly opened Old Capitol and its theme will be, of all things, Preservation in Mississippi. In addition to speakers that include… Read More ›

• Abandoned in the City

  By ELMalvaney on February 10, 2009 • ( 2 )

  A second in a series of articles in the Clarion-Ledger about abandoned buildings in our capital city.  I say abandoned because they’re not just vacant, waiting for their next occupant–more, they’ve been abandoned by their owners, left to the destroyers…. Read More ›

• Hernando Hits the Big Time!

  By ELMalvaney on February 9, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Read the recent article in the New York Times (as in New York City!) about the City of Hernando’s efforts to get its iconic water tower designated a Mississippi Landmark. Hernando has been really working for the past decade at… Read More ›

• Vacant City

  By ELMalvaney on February 9, 2009 • ( 1 )

  A sad article (one of many in recent years, I’m afraid) in the Clarion-Ledger about the thousands of abandoned houses in Jackson.   Jackson has more than 12,300 vacant houses among its 76,000 households, according to U.S. Census figures. The… Read More ›

• Mississippi’s New Old Capitol

  By ELMalvaney on February 8, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  For any of you who don’t know, the old state capitol building, commonly called the Old Capitol, just re-opened yesterday after a major renovation that was set in motion when chunks of the copper roof tore off during Hurricane Katrina…. Read More ›

• Newer Entries ›