Ownership of the businesses occupying the three Middle Street buildings we have been focused on started to change and evolve in the...

Below: A composite guide to the many retailers and occupants of the west side buildings on Middle Street in the early- to mid-twentieth...

For more than half a century, Carpenter Bros. Garage was a quirky reminder on Middle Street of the first repair shops that sprung up at...

Ottis Bean got his start as a barber in a small shop on the outskirts of town at the intersection of Highway 25 and Highway 155 (The...

In 1949, ownership of Montevallo Cleaners, which was located at the time in the 721 building on Middle Street next to Carpenter Brothers...

There has been a gas station on the southeast corner of Middle and Valley Streets since “Dr.” P.C. Wilson, owner and druggist at Wilson’s...

W.L. Brown, and his sons Hansel and Wyman, started Brown Motor Coaches Co. in the early 1930’s transporting Alabama College students to...

(Left) 730 Middle Street following a spruce up in 2021 as part of Montevallo Main Street’s successful “Facade Grant” program for...

The building at right in this photo (320 Middle Street – current occupant, “Montevallo Makers”) was constructed adjacent to the existing...

Having worked our way with weekly “Throwback” features down Main Street in the past several months to Middle Street, we cross the street...

This week we return to Main Street and continue to explore the history of businesses and buildings along Montevallo’s primary...

This week we move on to the first true residential dwelling house that we have encountered on our trek along Main Street. It's fitting...

To complete our story about the George Kroell house on Main Street, we’re reprinting two articles from the 1960’s that provide a bit more...

In the name of progress, Montevallo sacrificed the landmark George Kroell house in order to make way for a futuristic new structure that...

Off and on during the twentieth century there were as many as four different automotive service stations operating on Main Street, each...

This week we begin to make our way along the south side of Main Street in the block between Middle and Vine streets. As we have...

Evidence of the arrival of the Derby Hotel and Restaurant on Middle Street in Montevallo first appears in local advertising in 1947....

One of the auto service stations doing business along Main Street at one time or another was located for at least 30 years in the middle...

Just a few steps to the east from Eddie Mahaffey’s service station toward the Masonic Building once stood what was known as the Albright...

The two story Albright building that stood for many years on the southwest corner of the intersection of Main and Vine streets was...