House of the Week

Another Neel Reid Druid Hills house. This one is across the street from last week's house of the week. It was built in 1917 for the Louis Regenstein family and is Italianate in style.



From J. Neel Reid Architect , by William R. Mitchell : "Characteristic of Reid's work was the concentration of a few boldly scaled ornamental elements at focal points on otherwise comparatively plain facades. There is often a hipped roof, villa-like rectangular horizontality, a central block with side porches, sometimes wings, placed in landscape garden settings reached through french doors, very much in the manner of 'casual classicism' of Charles Platt. ...nearly always with the Italian Renaissance villa set in the back of his mind." (pg 74).



The house was for sale recently, here are interior photos from that listing.

House of the Week

Around a curve on a beautiful street in Druid Hills....





















click on any picture to enlarge

House of the Week - Woodlands at Barnsley Gardens

Woodlands at Barnsley Gardens


This week we are featuring a different sort of house - the house is in ruins! Yet, it is still beautiful. In fact, I would say that its bones, the brick architecture of the house, are more beautiful than the house was when it was whole. Located an hour from Atlanta in Adairsville, Georgia, the house has quite an interesting story to tell. Take a look at the house before it sank into disrepair..



An Italianate structure built by Godfrey Barnsley in the 1850's for his wife Julia and their children, the house's roof was torn off by a tornado in 1906 and it has not been occupied since. The story is below:




Looking from the parterre gardens toward the house. The house and gardens were inspired by the work of Andrew Jackson Downing, a landscape designer and proponent of Italianate and Gothic revival architecture.


















The family lived in the kitchen structure to the right above, after the roof was ripped off of the main house by a tornado in 1906.



Click here to read more about the history of the Barnsley Estate.

Tomorrow we'll have photos of the interior - so stay tuned!

all photos by whitehaven

House of the Week - Valentine's House!

For Valentine's Day ....

The Kent-Valentine House in Richmond, home of the Garden Club of Virginia.



photography by Roger Foley















Happy Valentine's Day!

House of the Week

Knollwood

Another Shutze classic. Built in 1929 for the Kiser family, it's in the same neighborhood as last week's house of the week. This one is unbeatable...






















It's for sale. Listing here.