F Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayer lived in this 1910 house at 919 Felder Avenue for a few months in 1931. I suspect their moving here was a ploy by the alocholic Scott to park his schizophrenic wife and move on with a new life in Hollywood. The […]

Zelda Museum

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1930 and is the oldest fine arts museum in the state. It first featured silver, pictures, china, and furniture that was loaned from local and regional collectors. Today, it features paintings and sculptures by artists from Alabama and around the world. […]

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

The museum is only museum dedicated to Rosa Parks and taking you back to her life-changing moment when she decided not to give up her seat. This building was constructed in 1998 and finished around late 2000. Rosa Parks was actually able to attend the ground breaking and the official […]

The Rosa Parks Museum

“We are a family orientated theatre, the productions we bring in are quality productions, and attract river region patrons. My favorite part about the theatre is the personal touch. We get to know our patrons, they are always willing to come back.” The Davis Theatre for the Performing Arts hosts […]

Davis Theatre

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is in Montgomery. The Shakespeare Festival was designed by Thomas Blount and Perry Pittman. The building structure is based on the theories of Andrea Palladio and houses two theaters. The Alabama Shakespeare Festival was originally located in Anniston. In the 1980s they began to build a […]

Alabama Shakespeare Festival

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The AUM library tower is a 10-story tall building that serves as the on-campus library that is open to the public. The library has frequent high school and community visitors throughout the semester. In 1982, construction of the building commenced. The building was designed to expand the available shelf space […]

AUM’s 10-Story Library Tower

This historic water tank is one of Downtown Montgomery’s last and also the most unique. While also being older than a century, this water tank is still operational and grounded so all the tourists and locals can visit! This historic site was not always “grounded,” The Alleyway Tank was engineered […]

Alleyway Tank

A day at your local theater is an experience. With the bright lights, smell of popcorn around you, and presence of friends, family, or a significant other, you know you’re about to have a good time. The movies have remained a special treat in American history, and especially in Alabama, […]

Capri Theatre

A nonprofit, six-year-old community theater in Montgomery The Cloverdale Playhouse is a community theater. Many volunteers from the community give their time and talent to make the dramatic arts come to life at the Playhouse. The Playhouse produces five main stage productions each season, and is now halfway through its […]

Cloverdale Playhouse

The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery is a unique experience to see. It is the last remaining home of the Fitzgerald family in the area. It houses the largest collection of Zelda Fitzgerald’s paintings in the world. This building is also the location where Fitzgerald formulated the ideas […]

Fitzgerald Museum

“It’s a top-of-the-line stadium in the SWAC,” said Jon Roblez, volunteer coach and former pitcher for ASU. Alabama State University’s baseball stadium holds 500 and sits next to the colossal ASU water tower. The stadium was built in 2011 after Larry Watkins fronted the overhaul of the baseball program at […]

Wheeler-Watkins Baseball Stadium

“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald The Fitzgerald museum is one of the most historical places in the state of Alabama. With its outstanding features, no wonder it’s on everyone’s bucket list. The museum itself is the […]

The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum

“They are always here to help.” — The Inter-library Loan and Access Services Librarian, Karen Williams The Ida Belle Young library tower is a 10 story tall building located on the campus of Auburn University at Montgomery. The library was built in two different phases. The first phase of the building was […]

Ida Belle Young Library Tower

Exploring the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery Throughout the country there are other Shakespeare festivals, yet Alabama’s is credited for being among the best this country has to offer. History The Alabama Shakespeare Festival has been a center point for Montgomery since 1985. However, “ASF” has not always been situated […]

Theatre on the Mind

“I can’t imagine worshipping anywhere else. There is so much history, so much strength built into this church.”- Maria Thomas, Head Secretary of Old Ship A.M.E. Zion Church Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is the oldest African-American church in the city of Montgomery. The church’s beginning dates way […]

Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

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The State Farmers Market in Montgomery is a family-friendly market located off of Federal Drive next to the Alabama National Fairgrounds Garrett Coliseum, and near the Montgomery Zoo. According to the owner, Jean Wright, the market was built in 1986 by the state of Alabama. Today, the building still operates […]

State Farmer’s Market

The well-regarded Healthsouth Rehab Hospital, 70-beds strong, an arm of the once giant nationwide hospital chain based in Birmingham. It proudly stands out on the Narrow Lane Road, looking so crisp and tony, that no one would ever suspect that it is a remnant of the Richard Scrushy accounting scandal […]

Healthsouth Rehab Hospital

The home of John J Dowe and his progeny for a hundred years or more. It is noteworthy, not for what it is, but for what it once was. I had been told that this house was formerly a Victorian adorned Italianate design, which featured “Gorgas Home” curved steps leading […]

Dowe House

Up in the grand old Cottage Hills District, stands nonchalantly amongst its historic neighbors, just like it belonged there. And I guess it does. This unassuming youngster was built to be a Bed n’ Breakfast by Mark Waldo in 1987, and was designed to replicate a Victorian Cottage of 1887. […]

Red Bluff Cottage B&B

When driving along with the fast moving traffic on our Southern loop road, it’s easy to overlook this rather imposing structure. At one time, perhaps 50 years back, this stretch was the hottest strip of real estate in town, and this was the new home offices of The Gulf American […]

Gulf American Fire & Casualty Insurance Company

It was built in 1994, the same year that its identical twin, the Rufus Lewis Branch, was erected out on the Mobile Highway at the head of Air Base Blvd. Tit for tat. Step into one of these and you feel like you have entered a fortress. What has our […]

E. L. Lowder Regional Branch Library

This is what all the hoopla is about, with stories on TV and in the paper, announcing that this 105-year old structure is to be converted into 21 more downtown loft apartments. Good for the Foshees. The building was built in 1905 to hold the printing presses of the then […]

Printing Press Lofts

The house can be seen off in the distance, through its front gate. That’s what it was in 1979, when a Prince of Saudi Arabia, an heir to the throne I believe, was given a slot to attend the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell’s Air University. His minions […]

Sheik’s House

The structure, now remodeled and expanded, was built some dozen years ago as the Advanced Medical Imaging Center. For the previous 65 years the Housing Authority had its home out on Bell Street, having grown out of the emergency housing development thrown up in the late 1930s to support the […]

Montgomery Housing Authority

The very successful Booker T. Washington Magnet High School was built in 1948, and it appears to have been the first of the avalanche of school construction following WW II. It preceded the T L Bear school design formula, but certainly was a forerunner. The building was erected on the […]

Booker T. Washington Magnet High School

Was completed 2008ish, as one of the 7 large office buildings, 7 huge parking decks, child care center, an activity center, two public parks, two hotels, convention facilities, fully equipped theater, and considerable street work, all of which the RSA has funded in downtown Montgomery over the past 45 years. […]

RSA Headquarters Building

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Was constructed in 1947 as the fulfillment of a dream of the small, industrious Greek community which had immigrated to Montgomery over the previous 70 years, struggling to make their way in a strange new land. This effort, delayed by years of depression and war, was finally secured thru the […]

Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation