Architecture
Flickering Beauty: Cottage Hill Candlelight Home Tour
Ever wanted to see inside the Winter Place? Want to meet some great people who share your love for historic homes and architecture? Ever get curious about what’s inside other people’s homes? Cottage Hill Historic District is the oldest residential neighborhood in Montgomery. It’s listed on both the National and Local Historic Registers. One of […]
Lockwood Tour of Homes in February
On Sunday afternoon, February 28, from 12:30 until 5:30, Landmarks Foundation is hosting its third annual tour of homes to familiarize the public with Montgomery’s historic housing stock. Six Frank Lockwood-designed homes in the Garden District, Old Cloverdale and Edgewood are open to the public, each one confirming that Lockwood was one of Montgomery’s premiere […]
Mockingbirds and Mansions
Whether you own property, pay monthly rent, or are just crashing on a friend’s couch until you can get some things together, I’ve got some good news: You have a beautiful house. Sure, the idea of the Alabama Governor’s Mansion as “The People’s House” is more civic metaphor than legal truth. But there’s still power […]
Springtime Will Eventually Arrive, But in the Meantime…
As we settle in for some chilly temperatures and dream of spring and daffodils, now is the time to plan for those annual projects. You’ll be ready to start those projects as soon as the groundhog misses seeing his shadow! Mailboxes are beginning to fill up with seed catalogs, and we long to get dirt […]
What’s a Lockwood?
With the recent news that the Standard Club located on Narrow Lane Road will have a new life as a hospice facility, local preservationists are breathing a collective sigh of relief. The Standard Club was designed by noted Montgomery architect Frank Lockwood and built in 1929. You may have heard that name batted around in […]
Cottages! A Tour
An exciting new fall event will cater to our Midtown fascination with house tours and seeing how our neighbors live! The Old Cloverdale Spring Tour, Capitol Heights by Candlelight, the Cottage Hill Christmas Tour and the Old House Expo have been very successful in creating interest in old house living. This year, Landmarks Foundation and […]
The International Style
Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Brown has been covering Montgomery architecture for Midtown Montgomery Living since our site launched. We’re thrilled that she returns this month with the following piece on international influences. Her impressive archive of posts can be seen here. Just on the surface of it, International (or Modern), architecture looks as though it came […]
The Small House
In the recent rage to build larger and larger houses, it is easy to forget that for most of the 20th century, the average size of a house hovered around 1000 square feet. I have a hard time imagining that. At my current home we struggle to manage on 2,100 square feet for two people, […]
When Life Closes a Window, It Opens a New Window
Almost everyone that has purchased an older home has — at some point — questioned the decision making of a previous owner. In our case, there’s a part of our 1930 house that has been somewhat annoying for a couple of years now. Although it isn’t our least favorite part of our home, one potentially amazing part […]
The Rock House
Those of us who live in Midtown’s Garden District, Old Cloverdale or Cloverdale-Idlewild neighborhoods love “old house quirk.” We admire built-ins with glass paned windows, transoms, elaborate molding and period tile. But sometimes we can be a bit standoffish when it comes to more modern design. Some people love mixing midcentury furnishings with their hundred-year-old […]
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