Thursday, August 19, 2010

One House – Three Designs

    Architect Bobby McAlpine’s former house in Montgomery, Alabama was modeled after Edwin Lutyens’ Homewood.      Homewood was built in 1901 for Dowager Lady Lytton, who was to soon become his mother-in-law.  The Luytens children spent summer holidays at Homewood, so it truly was a family house – held by the Luytens until 1973 when it was sold.  Today it is a bed and breakfast inn.