Exploring Montgomery

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Monthly Archives: May 2018

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

May 28, 2018 in Commercial / Residential tagged lofts / press / printing

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

May 25, 2018 in Residential tagged dennis / house / sheik

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

May 21, 2018 in Government tagged authority / housing

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

May 18, 2018 in Education tagged booker / btw / high school / magnet / washington

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

May 14, 2018 in Commercial / RSA tagged headquarters / rsa

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

May 11, 2018 in Religious tagged church / greek / orthodox

Certainly inspired by George Washington’s Virginia home, Mt Vernon, was built circa 1933. At the time it was the last house out on the Woodley Road as you headed off to Troy. Hardie was one of the owners of the highly successful McGehee Brothers Drug Store located downtown on the […]

Hardie McGehee House

May 7, 2018 in Residential tagged hardie / mcgehee

The unit moved there around the turn of the Century, after a 35-year stint on Ripley Street, opposite Saint Margaret’s Hospital (today that site is part of the State motor pool). The Red Cross was founded in 1881, gained prominence during WW I when it went along as part of […]

American Red Cross Offices

May 4, 2018 in Commercial tagged red cross