On a blistering Summer day in 2018 while riding his motorcycle over the steep hills of the Heritage Village neighborhood that runs along the rambling Cypress Creek, Austin Shirey found a red For Sale sign for a baby blue, vinyl cabin hidden in the back of the woods on Creekside Drive and immediately made an […]
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The Gunrunner
1930’s Tennessee Street in Florence, Alabama was a bustling boulevard — a straight shot to downtown, lined with store fronts and possibility. The Great Depression didn’t stop the two story brick building from housing Foote Auto Company, a car dealership stocked full of Cadillacs and Oldesmobiles, until the mid-seventies when the Gunrunner Pawn Shop took […]
Stone Cottage Restoration
Sarah Baxter is a 5 foot nothing Texas spit fire—all wild, black hair and red lipstick– an ever steady forward march regardless if it’s a season of joy or uncertainty. Tackling challenges head on with a spirit of curiosity and determination, she has used this same energy to breathe love and life into her 1945 […]
The President’s Home
If you follow the winding paths through the University of North Alabama, up hills, under twinkle lights, and past the towering Harrison Plaza fountain you’ll find the President’s House — where all sidewalks seem to intersect. While the stately building sits silent, stoic— a symbol of the University of North Alabama and its history, the […]
