Grey Columns, Old Montgomery Road (Institute Road), Tuskegee

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This plantation house was ambitiously planned, A two-storey high Doric portico adorns not only the entire front facade, but the greater part of the two facades at the side as well. The cornice has a pair of curlicue brackets over each column. On each side of the entrance door are elaborate Corinthian columns placed flat against Corinthian pilasters* The scrolled brackets over these columns and pilasters support a wrought^iron balcony, the excellent design of which may be seen on the title page of the draw- ings. In the base of the house there are rectangular open- ings with cast-iron grilles of rinceau design. An octagonal cupola crowns the roof. The interior is noted for the elliptical arch oh Doric columns in the hall-..

It is odd that the fancy carved step-ends should be oh/the rear stairs, while the front stairs are plain. ' "? MA*** 3W. A<^> OF /Ui?ft. /? Pur3ue , ft. IH* Source of Material: E. Walter Burkhardt, District Administrator, HABS. Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. (Revised and rewritten at HABS HEADQUARTERS, Feb. 13, - (Original sheet in field notebook}*. pre^'C&ia^ AL-543;, ; (yarner^ ; : . .."^National' Historic Site) -' . . -. .l - " * Old Montgomery Road HA; Biv -Tuskegee . Macon -County:' >. ; : . ; '. / * a Alabama t-( a. -rus Addendum tor- vy . '". Varner-Alexander House ^USkeg^S;::;.

r Macon County Alabama (as recorded in the REDUCED COPIES OF MEASURED DRAWINGS kOU f)\Atcs ' Historic American Buildings Survey National Park Service Department of the Interior Washington, ADDENDUM TO HABS No. AL-543 GREY COLUMNS (VARNER-ALEXANDER HOUSE) Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site Old Montgomery Road A/AM^ Tuskegee * + Macon County Alabama JUSQ XEROGRAPHIC COPIES OF COLOR TRANSPARENCIES HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Washington,