Tag: Montgomery architecture
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 […]
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 […]
A Buyer for 1802 Madison
It’s been quiet over at 1802 Madison lately. After a few weekends in a row of chain saws buzzing, city trucks hauling, volunteers drinking coffee, eating G & S donuts and working hard, it seems really quiet. Media coverage and social media are also notably flat after accumulating “likes” on Facebook including international comments, weekly […]
I Believe in Hilda Dent
A few months ago, we wrote about our adventure going before the Architectural Review Board. We were seeking permission to renovate our sunroom. The room almost certainly was once open to the elements — or perhaps screened in — and once featured a rear-facing door (long since bricked in to make a nice bookcase). At some […]
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, […]
Got Beams? Exploring Ceiling Options in Bungalows
Many of us who live in historic districts in Midtown have the good fortune of living in a bungalow. Whenever someone excitedly announces they have purchased a bungalow, my first question is always, “Do you have beams?” If so, they belong to an elite club of old house lovers. I was eager to blog about […]
Work Programs and Stimulus Monies (75+ years later)….
With the discussion of national work programs on everybody’s minds as a relief to our trouble economy, a little retrospective came to mind as we pay homage to one of our most important research tools used in the historic preservation movement, the Historic American Building Survey. In 1933, deep into the Great Depression, the Federal […]
The Tudors, Season Two
In June I wrote about the Tudor Revival and some of Montgomery’s larger showcase Tudor homes. As promised, this post is about the not-so-huge Tudor houses. Along with bungalows, these houses represent the prosperity of the 1920’s, and form the bulk of the pre-World War II residential neighborhoods in Montgomery and across the south. Indeed, […]
Montgomery Tudor Revival – Our English Roots
No influence was more broadly felt, nor more expertly executed, in Montgomery than that of the Tudor Revival. These houses draw their inspiration from English domestic architecture of Medieval times. Calling the style Tudor brings to mind the Tudors and their larger-than-life personalities, giving the style a romantic and memorable name. In the United States, […]
Around the Mediterranean
It’s not just Italy which has coastline on the Mediterranean Sea. Our tour of architectural influences on our neighborhoods’ architecture needs to take us at least along the coast from Italy through France to Spain. The landscape is very similar, with steep slopes running down to the sea and the vernacular architecture from country to […]
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