People in Places and a Wedding

I prefer people in my places. On that count it was a great week.


Andrea and Eli got married in a pasture last Saturday. They are Atlanta chefs who tweet. Eli s is executive chef at the soon to open @TheLuminaryATL. JoAnn and I saw Eli at Piedmont Hospital on the day he was born. He grew up to earn this great woman's love. Ladies: Most of us dorky guys will never understand how we get these wonderful girls to make a families with us. Though we don't always express it well, we are so grateful.


Sarah Emerson waved while painting on Broad Street for "Elevate." This is the new Mammal Gallery. It's just south the downtown MARTA station. Now you can find it.


I found James McConnell of Beep Beep Gallery and Sam Parker (the artist who couldn't possibly have time to sleep) at my first visit to the newest Fay Gold Gallery. It was Red Bull's cooler painting competition.


Turns out that Sarah Emerson's (center) and Sam Parker's coolers won their way to the national competition at Art Basel Miami.


P.S. Fay Gold's Gallery is cool, it's at the west tip end of 10th, the building with Hense paint job.


At Grant Park Octane, you might want the sun at your back when you join one of these illuminaries: Anna Gonzales   Maigh Houlihan, Jessica Weiss, and Brandon Barr. Brandon is one of the #weloveatl champions. Thanks to Mail Chimp for supplying the LikeMind Atlanta coffee.


While you're at Octane check our some Howdynater (Nathan Tavel) posters in the hall.


The Atlanta Preservation Center is presenting an exhibition of photographs by Lucinda Bunnen (right). Lucinda has pretty much photographed everybody. Photographer John Ramspott (left) was there to photograph the opening for Burnaway.


The Grant Mansion's Drawing Room Gallery is my favorite 600 square feet in Atlanta, It's great even when empty. It's even better with people and art. See art critique Jerry Cullum? See WonderRoot leader Crhis Appleton?


Did the Atlanta Contemporary folks work all night getting ready to re-open? That's art director Stuart Horodner wearing "curator" black.


The smiling sisterz are artistz. Marci Starz and Nicki Starz posed with dad, mom, and brother at The Creative's Project Fundraiser at the Goat Farm.


Councilman Kwanza Hall is everywhere, here with TCP artist Jerushia Graham.


Photographer Neda Abghari (in black) is the executive director of TCP and you should know her.


Carolne Kilgore is photography director for Atlanta Magazine. In the old days she grew up with my children. I used to be taller than Caroline (and taller than 2 of  my 3 children).



Jiha Moon (lady with glasses) keeps a happy studio at the ACAC Art Party. It's hard not to smile with Marianne Lambert (lady in red) in the house.


I repeat: Kwanza Hall is everywhere.


Lisa Tuttle with Paul Benjamin who also keeps a happy studio.


Nathan Sharratt keeps a sofa in his studio: a happy choice.


Melissia Fernander relaxes on her back, Zopi Kristjanson on her tummy, David Courtright prefers to put his feet up in Steven Anderson's garden.


Stuart Horodner, me, Lauren Langley, and Sarah Gaskins at the Pubic Atlas Walkabout in Reynoldstown and Cabbagetown. We walked about picking up little art pieces. Thanks to Fallen Fruit and WonderRoot.


We met one of the artists.


We met the Sisters of the Lattice at Karen's house with Nancy VanDevender (right).

I'm not done but I am a bit tired. One more:


I'll leave you with some downtown wall walking from last night at Elevate Atlanta. "Point de vue sur coin de rue" at the corner of Broad and Poplar featuring Mostafa Ahbourrou, Isabelle Saulle, and Adolfo Vargas from L’Association Manifeste. Hey, they are on Facebook.

I appreciate y'all saying hello.

Photoshopping the Neel Reid designed Willis Jones House back to Peachtree

The soon to be moved Randolph-Lucas House is not the first grand house to cruise Peachtree. The Willis Jones house moved north on Peachtree in the late 1960's.

There is much to say about the house and about Neel Reid. I'll just show you a few pictures.

 
Today the Willis B. Jones House in on Paces Ferry just west of and across the street from the governor's mansion.


Until the late 1960's the house stood here at 1753 Peachtree Street on this corner across from the Mellow Mushroom.

You should have seen the Wills Jones House THEN (do click this link - really). It has since lost urns but gained dormers. The original was Job number 457, 1922  Hentz, Reid, & Alter. I don't know who designed the rebuild on Paces Ferry.


On Paces Ferry you get a zen view from the car at 45 miles per hour. You can see it better on foot but the Paces Ferry sidewalk is scary.


So I Photoshopped it back.

Hat tip to Boyd Coons, Executive Director Atlanta Preservation Center and William R. Mitchell, author of  J. Neil Reed Architect and Thornton Kennedy columnist for the Northside Neighbor. Read Thornton's article about the move, "Historic rescue required $300, lots of patience".


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Where it was.


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Where it is.

602 Carteret Street: Why don't you take some pictures of THAT for your blog?

We'd just finished our buggy ride in Beaufort. We were heading back tired, hungry, a bit overwhelmed on this beautiful Friday afternoon. At 602 Carteret Street, Kenny said, "Take some pictures of that." (See the map at the end of this post.)

I jumped out of the car and took these while they waited in the car. I had five minutes. I wish I'd had a day. Thanks Ken, good eye.


"In 1932 the Beaufort County Library Board opened the J. I. Washington Branch...Beauford's black residents finally had a separate branch library on Carteret Street...The Washington Branch was located at 602 Carteret Street in a building that had once housed (Berean) Presbyterian..." - Beaufort: A History By Alexia Jones Helsley


It catches the eye but there is so much to catch the eye in picturesque Beaufort.


I thought it was Brown Design Studio. Mr. Brown messaged me:  "We are just getting ready to do some much needed rehab."


It's now the print making studio for the University of South Carolina - Beaufort.

So I rushed around.



 
Door to the sacristy.


The Beaufort Preservation Manual by John Milner Associates calls the window Late Gothic Revival c. 1900 with "Heavy Simple backband, 'Abstract' Pointed Arch, Double Hung Sash."






There were some folks at the side door. I introduced myself to Joanna Angell who directs the Ceramics, Printmaking, Drawing studios and asked if I could look inside.


It's a great feeling space but scraped clean of most of old church and branch library ambiance. Still, those windows and triangles...I'd like to work in there.


The sacristy.


Now we know.


Thanks to Eric Brown at Brown Design Studio, he tweets: @BrownDesignStd  and thanks to Jane Frederick at Frederick + Frederick Architects. she tweets: @JaneFredArch. I tweet at @terrykearns.


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Thanks again to the Architecture Tourist Palmeto State away team.

How to see Beaufort by Buggy with Paul Newman and MaryAnn

I mean the Paul Newman WITHOUT blue eyes and that's BEW-fort, South Carolina not BOW-fort, North Carolina.

 
Paul Newman (left) with the Architecture Tourist away team: JoAnn, me, Linda, and Ken on the Beaufort SC waterfront. We were all smiles after the tour thanks to our tour guide MaryAnn and Southurn Rose Buggy Tours.


We approached downtown Beaufort on Highway 21 via Carteret Street. Beaufort isn't a big place but it's flat and leafy so you can't see more than half a block.

We spotted a visitor center sign at Craven Street and found ourselves at the Beaufort Arsenal. This was a nice, cool place with restrooms. They had info on walking tours, van tours, boat tours, everything tours.

We decided on a one-hour buggy tour for $18.00 each. From the arsenal we drove a few blocks to the waterfront and found Southurn Rose Buggy Tours. It's the where the horses were. We paid for 2 hours at a parking meter and were set to go.


We had the spacious 3rd row all to ourselves.


That's buggy-boss MaryAnn. She managed Paul Newman and patrons.

Here is a little taste of the tour.


We saw a lot of haint blue paint.


Beaufort First Presbyterian Church.


St. Helena's Episcopal Church was built in 1724. It was open to visitors, maybe next time.




Double porches galore.


Yellow needs no caption.


A live oak becomes an angel oak when a limb hits the ground and starts back up. This one isn't yet an angel.


There were asking $498K for this 1938 infill on Hancock Street.


This may be new but let's bless the purple.

 
"Rancher."


The west end of Laurens Street is a terminated vista in yellow and white. MaryAnn seemed nonchalant as we approach it.


The north side of that yellow house. Mmm....


We couldn't see the First African Baptist Church until we were right in front. See inside in this South Carolina ETV video.


We barely scratched the surface but JoAnn and I took a liking to Paul. MaryAnn thought JoAnn's shirt looked like a carrot.


Bonus: tour patrons got a free sand dollar candy from The Chocolate Tree Candy Shop. Linda demonstrated the proper candy store stance.


We're talking Candy Hall of Fame!!!

Let's do it again.


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