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Monthly Archives: May 2016

Winter-Loeb — at 105 Tallapoosa Street was a 1903 collaboration between architect Frank Lockwood and contractor Algenon Blair. The keystone arch theme almost gives it a whimsical feel. The Winter-Loeb wholesale grocery company was organized circa 1895 by immigrants Isaac Winter and his brother-in-law, Jacques Loeb. My wife’s grandfather, Edward Eugene Langham, […]

Winter-Loeb Building

May 30, 2016 in Commercial tagged loeb / winter

Flowers Hall — was constructed in 1910 in English Tudor Gothic style, following the lead of prominent East coast colleges. It was the first building on the new 55-acre campus of the Women’s College of Alabama, and for many years it was the only building. During those early years Flowers housed classrooms, the […]

Huntingdon Flowers Hall

May 27, 2016 in Education tagged flowers / huntingdon

Lurleen Wallace Building — For years the Lurleen Wallace Office Building was known simply as “The State Office Building”. It was designed by the prestigious firm of Warren, Knight & Davis of Birmingham to compliment the Public Safety Building it faces, and was completed in 1954. Local architects supposedly had the job but were supplanted […]

Lurleen Wallace Office Building

May 23, 2016 in Government tagged lurleen / office / state / wallace

County Health Department — at 3060 Mobile Highway was built by the County Commission in 1994. It is operated under the authority of the State Health Department (Mobile and Jefferson County Health Departments are independent). The first floor of this building is one of six primary health care centers in our county, and it […]

County Health Department

May 20, 2016 in Government tagged county / health

ALPCo offices — on Dexter Avenue was built in 1855, but the full-height annex on the left side was not added until 1908. For many years this was the home of the Montgomery Advertiser, which in 1941 moved one block up Lawrence Street into the building (visible on the right edge) we now […]

Alabama Power District Offices

May 16, 2016 in Commercial tagged advertiser / electric / power

Dexter Avenue King Memorial — …stands near the head of Dexter Avenue, only one block from the State Capitol. Its design is simplified Victorian Gothic, and it was built in 1899 amidst much controversy over the placement of a “Colored Church” on the city’s main street. Today it is widely heralded as Montgomery’s most famous […]

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church

May 13, 2016 in Religious tagged baptist / church / dexter / king / memorial / victorian gothic

Public Safety Building — Thats what we call it now, but it was the State Highway Dept when it was built, back when the state teachers only taught, and the AHD ran the state. This was the second of the six buildings that surround our State Capitol, and is the one that set the […]

Public Safety Building

May 9, 2016 in Government tagged department of public safety / dps / safety / state highway department

County Jails — The new jail (on the right) connects to the old jail (on the left) via a bridge across McDonough Street. The new facility, with its 700 bed capacity, brings the total capacity up to 1100. That’s hard to believe, considering that for 30 years 1957-1986 our county jail capacity […]

County Jails

May 6, 2016 in Government tagged county / jail

Dexter Avenue Methodist — This grand old church, now an outpost of River City Church, was completed in 1900, when it had a bell chamber and steeple on its street corner tower. A lightening strike did away with that, leaving the Romanesque building with an incomplete feeling. My partner, WMP, attended there, and […]

Dexter Avenue Methodist Church

May 2, 2016 in Religious tagged dexter / methodist / river city / romanesque