It has been an exciting month at the Glenn House. We wrapped up our last Phoenix Flies tour this past Sunday, and we couldn't be more grateful to all who attended. We had over twenty people at each tour, and met several new friends in the preservation community. I've...

We're starting the week off with a Monday mystery. This will be the first of a series of posts discussing the process of restoring and renovating the interior. With no historic photos of the interior, we've relied on every little clue the house has given us in order...

The Glenn House is safe from a pinch today with a touch of green on the original front door jamb. Last Spring, we acquired a Type Two Certificate of Appropriation from the Urban Design Commission, allowing us to remove the white vinyl siding applied in the 1970's. We...

With views of the downtown Atlanta skyline, beautiful old trees and other historic homes, we can't resist hanging out in the tower. At the end of a long week, it's my favorite place to take a moment, breathe and remind myself just how incredible this project is. A...

Through this project, I've learned that spaces evolve. What we thought a room would look like a year ago is not what we envision now. From the start, the new addition was meant to be modern, but over time, I felt something was missing to tie the old and new together....

Can you say groovy? The Glenn House in the 1970's was filled with floral and zebra prints, books and a collection of international art and culture. In 1977, Atlanta photographer Lucinda Bunnen photographed Dr. Richard A. Long in his Inman Park home, the home we are...

It's hard to believe the time has come to restore the front porch. About a year ago, we closed on the house and the porch was far from being touched. It was a sea of concrete, rotted wood columns and a beadboard ceiling in desperate need of stability. As you can see...

We are excited to announce that the Glenn House is one of ninety-nine sites participating in Phoenix Flies 2018! This event, hosted by the Atlanta Preservation Center, is a celebration of Atlanta's cultural and historic sites. For fifteen years, the Atlanta...

If walls could talk...these studs would have quite a story to tell. Each and every piece makes the Glenn House so beautiful. After 128 years, these wall studs have held the Glenn House together, keeping its soul alive through decades of change and renovations. We fall...

You can imagine my surprise when I was told we needed to find nine-foot pocket doors. Sure, I had grown up with pocket doors in our Seattle house, but they were only six feet tall! The arched opening in the photo below was a non-historic change to the interior,...