Old Town

Smith-Lawson House

609 Holmes Avenue NE, Huntsville, AL•Built 1889

Watercolor and ink artwork of the Smith House, a yellow Victorian cottage with gables and ornate porch details.

The story

Behind the sketch.

Built in 1889, the Smith-Lawson house dates from the period when Old Town was filling with Victorian houses beside its earlier Federal and Greek Revival homes. The result was the architectural mixture that now gives the neighborhood its character: restrained old cottages sharing the street with porches, gables, and decorative late-nineteenth-century detail.

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Old Town
Book location
Page 82

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