Scottdale Gables

Scottdale Mills? Scottdale, Georgia? Agnes Scott College? Same family. When I'm in the area, I take a little drive around. It's only a few blocks. I am a gable guy and swoon at views like this. (There is a secret picture for garden bloggers Tara and Pam, will they notice?)



Scottdale is one of the Atlanta area's milltowns, preserved differently than those in Cabbagetown, The Old 4th Ward, and Home Park.



It's not in a "hip" area. These 2 are on a green, unlike any other in Atlanta, as far as I know. No hip shops or restaurants; no cool residents in sight (but they must surely be very cool). No tourists, no parking problems, no scene.



These 2 houses were built as duplexes. They didn't need these nice details. Notice the two chimneys, one for each apartment.


The modest chimney has looked great every day of it's life.


You see these hipped roof porches on period houses everywhere.


Faith Walk is the house with the fancy gable window.


I don't think the other house has a name but it's a beauty too. This is the secret picture for garden bloggers: Gravel and grass, know what I mean?


There are single family millhouses too, one in pink, or is it salmon?


You visit the Dekalb Farmers Market right? So drive a bit further out on Ponce. Find the antique stores in cute little houses, turn left and find the green. There you are.


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Thanks,
Terry
terry @ surf303.com

38+ Lofts, 71+ Artists free this weekend!!!

December couldn't be busier or happier for Architecture Tourists. Here are 3 great events for the December 4-5-6, 2009

• See 2 of Atlanta's original loft buildings and one converted school
  
• Tour boatloads of amazing real lofts: Imagine 20' tall windows.
  
• Buy artsy and practical Christmas presents and support local artists.
• Hobnob with the cool arts crowd and intowners - Southern Style
  
• Meet me (or avoid me if you act quickly).
  

The Stacks Third Annual Holiday Lofts + Artists Tour
18 Lofts, 31 Artists
December 4th & 5th, 2009
Friday night, 4 December: 6p to 10p
Saturday, 5 December: 2p to 8p
At the Historic Fulton Bag & Cotton Mill in Cabbagetown, Atlanta, near Oakland Cemetary
Tours: Saturday, 5 December: 12:30p & 2p R.S.V.P. stackshistorytour@gmail.com


Image courtesy Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center

Telephone Factory Art Show
20+ lofts will be open to 40+ local artists
December 5-6, 2009
Saturday, 5 December: 11a-7p
Sunday 5 December: 1p-6p
828 Ralph McGill Blvd. Atlanta, GA 30306 in the Old 4th Ward near the Carter Presidential Library
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The beautiful Telephone Factory:


as long as you are in the neighborhood

Annual Holiday Studio Tour & Art Sale - Euclid Arts Collective
December 4-5-6, 2009
Dec 4-5-6, 2009
Friday, 4 December, 7p-9p
Saturday, 5 December, 10a-4p
Sunday, 6 December, 12p-4p
Inman Park at the Little Five Points Community Center, formerly Moreland Elementary School
1083 Austin Ave. N.E., Atlanta, GA, 30307

Where you are certain meet the crews of Studio 102, Studio 204 (Chantal Gadd & Carla House), Studio 207 (Henry Leonard) and "Kitchen" Studio, and of Studio 106 (picture below)

Crew of Studio 106 at Inman Park left to right:
Korey Gotoo -- handbuilt Clay
Barbara Briggs -hand-made lotions & soaps
Tina Cox – Modern Pottery (in 2nd row)
Ellen King - painter?
Terri Brunson - Jewelry

Charm in Scottdale, Georgia

Scottdale is east of Decatur. It's not a real town but has it's charms. Here is the Alcove Drive Missionary Baptist Church. Until 1982 Scottdale was a southern mill town. Many of the mill houses still stand. In the center of the mill town is a beautiful green. This one is charming in every way. This one has the perfect fence: