Exploring Montgomery

The storytelling continues… a collection of stories and photos from Exploring Montgomery!

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Tale of Two Sisters — This overgrown sadness at 3125 Cloverdale Road overlooks the currently popular Cloverdale-Idlewild “Bottom” Park, and it once was the home of Allen C Rankin. Back in 1940 Mr Rankin was general manager of the renowned Teague Hardware Store on Commerce Street, and he was the father of a most talented […]

Rankin – Tale of Two Sisters

April 10, 2017 in Residential tagged rankin / sing / sisters / tale / two / voice

Four Sisters Houses — The houses are on Perry Street, diagonally opposite First Baptist. The original owner, Dr W.O. Baldwin 1818-1886, highly successful banker and respected physician, spent his entire life in Montgomery. Even so, Baldwin opposed the war, not because he didn’t believe in the cause, but because he thought the South would lose. […]

Four Sisters Houses

February 22, 2016 in Residential tagged baldwin / four / hale / italianate / sisters / victorian