Built in 1903, somewhat Romanesque in style. Still a school after 100-plus years. It fronts on a wide boulevard which originally had street car tracks in its median. The tracks were laid about 1890 when Montgomery’s streetcar system was electrified –the first in the world. My wife’s great grandfather, Robert West, was the engineer that made it work. Before that, Montgomery could grow only as far as a person would walk from downtown.

-Charles Humphries