Monie Ferst House (1929) by Philip Trammell Shutze at the Estate Sale

I bet this house looked 200 years old on the day they moved in.

I got a tip from Terry Stephens. He was preparing an estate sale and I recognized the picture. I told everybody I knew, sorry if you didn't get the word, very sorry.  Pictures don't cut it. The junky estate sale look didn't spoil it.

This way. There's another little video at the end.


The front.


Garden view.


This is the best you can see it without going on the property. My picture from 2011.

"Monie Alan Ferst graduated from Georgia Tech in 1911 with a degree in M.E. He founded Scripto, Inc., and retired as chairman of the board." - Georgia Tech Digital Archive

"The architect's medieval aesthetic is successfully translated to a French provincial farm environment at the Monie Ferst House (1929)..." -  Robert Criaig, New Georgia Encyclopedia

"Shutze created as successful a rendition of the Normandy farmhouse as any other contemporary architect and yet it may be his only design in the Style." - Elizabeth Meredith Dowling American Classicist the Architecture of Philip Teammell Shutze The floor plans are in the book.

"Truth be told, I was more interested in seeing the home & gardens than actually shopping the contents of the sale." Sarah Ferguson who blogged it DUCHESS FARE with some great pictures.

My camera wasn't up to the task.


These little rustic obelisks mark the drive but you can't really see the house.


I'm a gravel driveway man and this has with ultra-rustic "curbs."


Ladies in heels had to be careful here.


"Garage" just isn't the right word. Efficiency apartment for staff above with entrance via the stair. Bring your groceries in by the door in the ell.


How it looks from the somewhat dirty master bedroom window.


How it looks from the living room window. Probably the best view of a garage in Atlanta.


This sort of stuff is just out where it belongs. Detailing for miles and miles makes for big harmony.


Oh yeah, the tower is in the other ell, circular stair inside. The wing on the right has the formal living room below and master suite above.


Shutze's front doors seem small to me and I mean perfectly small. It say's come on in.


Curved windows cost extra.

Take a look back in the back:



Best to you.

Terry's Tiny Tour - Classical / Traditional Spring Street in the Drizzle

Here's the deal: This week Maria Saporta wrote:  "It’s hard to believe, but the expansion of the Center for Puppetry Arts is even worse than I had feared..."

When I arrived at Georgia Tech in 1968, Spring Street was a 2-way of car dealerships. Is it less memorable today? Last night I cruised the 15 blocks between Peachtree and Linden to find out.

"Where you headed?" JoAnn asked.

"Spring Street."

"Huh?" was her silent, telling, sarcastic and totally correct response.


However great the puppet expansion might be, it hides a nice old building.

Terry Tiny Tour for folks driving 35-40 mph.


The Temple is one of our finest buildings (Shutze) and you can kind-of see it from Spring Street so I'm giving it an honorable mention.


Peachtree Christian Church (Hopson) is the gateway to Spring. It's stunning inside and out but seems lonely.


The skyline view from Peachtree Christian. It's where the eye goes but ...


The most you can see of the old Spring Street Elementary from Spring Street, the 40 mile an hour view.


It's still there, but fronted with modernist camo.


This is 1385 Spring, tax records say 1920. This and 1050 Spring are the only "houses" left on Spring Street. They are building this style today in my neighborhood.


The superb H.M. Patterson & Son - Spring Hill (Shutze). As if teleported from the English countryside.


The drizzly skyline view from from Spring Hill feels big city but not big comfort.


"Warm" view with drizzle in 19 seconds from Spring Hill. Caution: metal music.


 
Though Crum and Forster (Crook) is only 1/3 of its former self and has trompe l'oeil stick-on windows, it still classes up the place.

One more.


563 Spring Street, tax records say 1926. If pay you attention to the traffic, you might miss it.

Yet to be done: Terry's Tiny Mid-Century Modern Tour of Spring Street might be good.

Academy of Medicine has my Favorite Men's Room in Atlanta - Terry's Tiny Tour

It's formal and formidable: The Historic Academy of Medicine at Georgia Tech and I go every chance I can get. Designed by Philip Shutze and restored to tip top condition, there's no place like it in Atlanta.



On Wednesday it was the Atlanta Studies Symposium (terrific event, free, mark your calenders for next year). I'll write more about it if I have time.



This is the Historic Academy of Medicine.



Enter here.


Terry's Tiny Tour: The best men's room in Atlanta? Video 2:25 with a bit of bubbly music:





Is the ladies room just as good?

Pink Palace Grand Salon Details by Phlilp Shutze and Neel Reid

It has eyes, ears and a pompadour. I'll show you a few details.

"Designed for lavish entertaining..." is right and I couldn't get enough of it. Palazzo Rosa, the 2014 Decorators' Show House & Gardens benefiting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is open through May 18. You should go.

Holly is blogging it too at Things That Inspire see: 2014 Symphony Show House–a transformation of the master suite and 2014 Atlanta Symphony Show House and Gardens–the Grand Salon. See my first post: Architecture Tourist: The Pink Palace's Master Suite - a Little Video.

"Shutze and Reid probably collaborated in designing the Rhodes House...completed just before Reid died...Shutze designed the entry facade..." American Classicist: The Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze by Elizabeth Meredith Dowling


The front door from inside.


The front door from outside.


The view from front door towards Paces Ferry. We media folks had lunch out here at shady tables. It felt really good.


This is a first floor window into to the library and grand salon.


It has eyes, ears and pompadour.


The second floor windows are more elaborate.


Roses, shells and putti.



The mantel is taller than me.


Eighty inches tall with great proportions.


Details and proportions.


Wonderful over-the-top-ness.


The Grand Salon has its beauty marks. I like for things to look their age.

It's a lot to take in. More later. Get info and tickets: Palazzo Rosa, the 2014 Decorators' Show House & Gardens benefiting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is open through May 18.

Paul Knight - J. Neel Reid Prize Winner, 2007

Paul Knight won the J. Neel Reid Prize for 2007. Read more about the prize and the winners here. Paul tweets as @PaulLKnight. He's the 2nd winner to tweet; @clayrokicki was first.



Paul's prize project was "The Legacy of Reid and Shutze - Bringing Rome to Atlanta..." Paul visited Rome, Tivoli, and California, sketching, photographing, and making measured drawings of the very same places visited by Reid and Shutze decades ago.


Neel Reid at Villa Albani 1907 (from J. Neel Reid, Architect by William R. Mitchell. Jr.) and Paul Knight at Villa Borghese 2007.

I met with Paul on December 29, 2011 at his "penthouse" desk atop Historical Concepts' Glenwood Park Office.


It's hard to believe that whole buildings come from these little desks. Of course there are some big tables too. Paul is an Intern Architect at HC, a few thousand hours and 7 exams from becoming a registered architect.

Paul finds Architecture, Finally
Paul was raised in Cornelia Georgia, about 20 miles southeast of Helen. He went to Habersham Central where he considered studying music before settling on astrophysics at Georgia Tech. Tech has a way of challenging expectations so Paul switched to Mechanical Engineering. That wasn't clicking either.

Tech is not a lovable place when things aren't clicking. Thank goodness for hall-mate Jessi Pierce (now at Historical Concepts) who suggested architecture.

That must have worked. After 9 1/2 years at Tech, cross enrollment at SCAD, and summer internships galore, Paul earned a Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture, and Master of Regional and City Planning.

Paul Acquires a Taste for the Classicism and Wins a Shutze Award.
Paul took a studio at Tech, "Traditional Design Workshop," sponsored by Historical Concepts. Jonathan LaCrosse, the Neel Reid Prize winner in 2005 and designer at D. Stanley Dixon Architect taught the class. It worked.

Paul's rendering for the class won him the Shutze Emerging Classicist Award for 2010. Here is a bit of it.


Detail of Georgia Tech's old physics building.


Paul pulled it out of a portfolio to show me.

Paul Visits Italy and California for the Neel Reid Prize
Here are a few of Paul's sketches and duotone renderings:

Above: Villa Corsini on the left, Atlanta's Swan House on the right.





Above: There are epics of design, practice, and history in every baluster.


Fragment embedded in the wall at the American Academy.


Villa Medici

Paul Visits California for the Prize?
Paul postponed his trip to Italy and saved enough to visit California and was able to extend his study.


Paul holds the record for longest Reid Prize title, and there is a reason.

Shutze and Green took different lessons from Italy.


Paul went to California to see for himself.


Shutze and Reid applied their experience to a classical style, the Green's to Arts and Crafts. Here is their Gamble House.


Thanks to Paul for showing me around.

Remember: Paul tweets @PaulLKnight. His website is PaulLKnight.com. He works at Historical Concepts.