Back to Part I: Some Like It Cool: The Rise of AC in the South Air conditioning now dominates and our ability to cool our indoor climate may have radically changed Southern culture. …
Southerners love, and I do mean LOVE, air conditioning. When a heatstorm, a term that only became part of the meteorological jargon in the mid-1960s and describes a few days …
If architecture represents a mixture of reverence for previous styles, current aesthetics, and function—then Southern architecture is deeply rooted in the latter. You might see a Southern plantation home and …
“The People all new Settlers, extremely poor—Live in Log Cabins like Hoggs,” wrote Charles Woodsmason, author, poet, and Anglican clergyman, in 1766 while visiting South Carolina. In 1865 it was …
Above: Old Main Building, South College Street, Auburn, Alabama In recently researching Southern Architecture, I came across the this nugget of information from Kenneth Severens in Southern Architecture: 350 Years …
