Exploring Montgomery

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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

August 10, 2018 in Commercial / Residential tagged fitzgerald / museum / sayer / zelda

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

August 6, 2018 in Education tagged aum media writing / fina arts / montgomery / museum

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

July 9, 2018 in Education tagged aum media writing / museum / scott fitzgerald

“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

July 2, 2018 in Education tagged aum media writing / museum / scott fitzgerald

Rosa Parks Museum — is part of the Troy campus, and it stands at the corner of Montgomery and Moulton Streets, directly across from the old Paramount (Davis Theater). It occupies the former site of the Empire Theater, and is contiguous to the very bus stop made famous when Rosa Parks was arrested there […]

Rosa Parks Museum

May 8, 2017 in Education / Government / Places and Things tagged boycott / museum / parks / rosa / troy

Library Museum — The downtown Library Museum was built in the 1960s, and it extended thru the block. The library had the lower level and faced South Lawrence Street; the Museum occupied the upper level and faced McDonough. This was the face of the museum. When the museum moved out to Blount Park, the library […]

Downtown Library-Museum

February 26, 2016 in Education / Government tagged downtown / library / museum

Museum of Fine Arts — …moved from its previous quarters on McDonough Street downtown into this structure in the Blount Park in 1988. The museum was founded in 1930 and is the oldest fine arts museum in Alabama. It draws 160,000 visitors a year. Although its most outstanding holdings are built around the 41-piece American […]

Museum of Fine Arts

February 22, 2016 in Education tagged arts / fine / museum