Kelly Kazek

1 week ago | al.com | Kelly Kazek

By 1931, the man who coined the term “Jazz Age” and one of its brightest fringed flappers had given up the Roaring Twenties and settled into family life in Montgomery, Ala. Famed author F. Scott Fitzgerald – whose best-known work “The Great Gatsby” was published 100 years ago – and his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, rented a modest house on Felder Street and moved in with their daughter, Scottie, for the winter of 1931-’32.

1 week ago | al.com | Kelly Kazek

A gorgeous modern manor named Maison Roc is for sale on Alabama’s Smith Lake for $2.495 million. Listing agent Justin Dyar says the custom home by Shepard and Davis Architecture was featured in Veranda magazine and other publications. “This home is like no other home on the lake,” Dyar said. The property also features a triple-slip boathouse with hoists and lifts.

2 weeks ago | al.com | Kelly Kazek

Have you ever wondered why Huntsville, the largest city in Alabama and high-tech home to NASA and Marshall Space Flight Center, doesn’t have skyscrapers? As historian David Hitt put it: “the Rocket City’s skyline might seem a little short for a city that reaches for the stars.”The city’s small-town skyline is something that often makes many people curious – longtime residents and newcomers alike.

2 weeks ago | al.com | Kelly Kazek

What’s the tallest building in Alabama? If you thought it was located in the state’s largest city, you’d be incorrect – it is located in Mobile, the fourth largest city. In fact, Huntsville, Alabama’s current largest city, has only one structure on this list and that’s because the city once had ordinances limiting skyscrapers, according to the Huntsville Convention and Visitors Bureau. The tallest building in Huntsville is a Regions Bank Center that is only 189 feet and 12 stories high.

2 weeks ago | al.com | Kelly Kazek

For more than 70 years, Alabama was home to a hot salt spring “where patients with inflammatory rheumatism, arthritis, skin conditions, ulcerated stomach and other ailments go to get well,” according to a 1930s advertisement in The Birmingham News. For more photos, click through the gallery at the top of the story. During those seven decades, the spa in Cottonwood, Ala., was a popular tourist attraction, the site of a lodge charging $2.50 per night, and home to a doctor later sued for quackery.