House of the Week

The house of the week is a Lewis Crook house built in 1928 for A. Rhodes Perdue. A classic Atlanta house.






The house has many familiar Crook details - palladian windows, curved stair in the stair hall, black and white marble floors.













The house is for sale - listing here. To read more about Lewis E. Crook, read this book, by William Mitchell pictured below.

House of the Week

I have been busy reading my birthday books - always a great way to find inspiration and learn a few things. While reading the Lewis Crook, Architect book, I was struck by a photo of a house that I have long admired, but the house in the photo looked different than the one I was thinking of...so I hopped in my car and drove across Peachtree to see if it was the same house and what the changes were. It was the house in my book, but it now has a large addition on the left side and there are no shutters - but it's the same great house drawn by Crook and built for Henry Wagstaff in 1923.



The photo above is the original house drawn by Lewis Crook.



Above you can see the large addition on the left and the smaller addition on the right. And no shutters. I think I miss the shutters.



The house is beautifully situated on the lot and I like how the driveway swings across the property.



Above you can see the addition on the left side of the house.



My favorite detail is the front door. Does anyone know who the architect was on the additions?




Happy 4th of July!!!


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Great birthday presents!

Today is my birthday (and my daughter's too). I love birthdays, but don't love getting older...

Presents always soften the blow and these two are perfect gifts! I received these wonderful decorating/architecture books that I know you all will love too. JD gave me David Hicks, A Life of Design, and my mom gave me Lewis Edmund Crook, Jr Architect. Can't wait to dive into them. Thank you to JD and Mom!

House of the Week

photograph above by Van Jones Martin

Our House of the Week is another Lewis "Buck" Crook house (last week was a Crook house also) . I am enamored of this architect and have been driving all over town looking at his classic, sometimes quirky, always beautiful houses. This house is in Brookwood Hills - one of my favorite Atlanta neighborhoods. It was built in 1928 for William A. Parker, Jr. and the Parkers added a garage in 1953. The Parkers sold the house to Anne and Bradley Hale in 1964. The house is featured in Bill Mitchell's book Classic Atlanta.

From the Lewis Crook website:

"After a serious fire in March of 1996, the Hales hired Atlanta architect, Norman Askins, to restore their home. Careful study of Buck's original tracings brought to light the fact that, probably because of the depression of 1929, the house had not been built exactly as designed. For example, Buck's design called for 9-piece moldings throughout the interior of the house: economic belt-tightening dictated 3-piece moldings in 1929. Mr. Askins restored the home to Buck's original specifications."

An interior photo of the house by Van Jones Martin:


My pictures of the house....bad lighting - sorry!













From this angle you can see the 1996 addition.