Thursday Doors

Civil War Era Carbine Factory, Tallassee, Alabama

Below, at Thurlow Dam, adjacent to the Carbine Factory.

Monochromes

Thursday Doors

The Alabama River is right behind this building, the old train station.

Still in use, as a Welcome Center.  An excellent Thai Restaurant is also inside.

The train shed behind Union Station.

Up the road from the train station, a slow restoration taking place.

Sights-Montgomery, AL

The Kress building-remodeling AND adding about 14 apartments.

Across the street from the Winter Building, a few doors down from the Kress Building.

For more doors see Norm’s blog and click on his Thursday Doors entry.  Other entries can be added through the blue link at the end of his post. 

A little bit of history

A few historical sights around Montgomery, Alabama, and a few Thursday doors:

While this home looks interesting, what I thought interesting was that the two upstairs doors are working and having usable balconies.  Considering the age of the home, that’s rare.

According to historical records, the building (current image) below is the location that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. planned the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

This building (a current image), “Located at High and Jackson streets, the four-story Ben Moore offered lodging, a safe place for meetings and a vibrant social life free from the bigotry and hostilities of the Southern white racism of the 1950s and ’60s. Even today in the basement is an evocative barbershop full of civil rights-era news pictures and portraits, including one of its most famous customers, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., when he lived in the now-restored parsonage just yards up Jackson Street.” (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/hotels/2004-04-19-ben-moore_x.htm)

Right across the street from/next to the Ben Moore Hotel…(also a current image)

This is just a few doors down from that building, an amazing house or building, which I couldn’t yet find anything about.  I know that major remodeling was started a few years ago, and so much work was done I expected to see it fully restored to its former glory.  But that seemed to stop suddenly, and at this level of remodel in the photo, it actually looks much better than it did.  I also could not find out anything online about ‘Metro’, the last image below, I’ll have to ask around to find out.