The Subrosa at Newbern, AL (Memorial to Samuel Mockbee)
Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee was an architect and a co-founder of Auburn University’s Rural Studio located at Newbern, AL. He created a program dedicated to building houses, community centers and other...
View ArticleAkron Boys & Girls Club Complex at Akron, AL (a Rural Studio Project)
Most of Akron’s adults commute to Tuscaloosa or Greensboro for work which leaves the children to entertain and look after themselves for an extended period of time every day. Auburn University’s Rural...
View ArticleAuburn Rural Studio’s Antioch Baptist Church (Perry County, AL)
Shown is a small church in northwest Perry County, AL that was redesigned and rebuilt by four students from Auburn University’s Rural Studio at Newbern, AL. It was named among the top 100 best designs...
View ArticleAuburn Rural Studio at Newbern, AL
Established in 1993 by architects Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee and D. K. Ruth, the Rural Studio is a part of Auburn University’s School of Architecture. The Rural Studio is located in rural west Alabama in...
View ArticleLions Park at Greensboro, AL (Rural Studio Projects)
In 2004 the Lions Club, the City of Greensboro, Hale County, the Riding Club and the Greensboro Baseball Association formed a joint committee to manage and care for the future of Lions Park, the...
View ArticleHale County Animal Shelter at Greensboro, AL (a Rural Studio Project)
Hale County had a legal obligation to provide an animal shelter for the county but had no resources to build it. In 2005, Hale County representatives approached Auburn’s Rural Studio and requested...
View ArticleThe Alabama Rural Heritage Center at Thomaston, AL (A Rural Studio Project)
The Alabama Rural Heritage Center is located on Hwy 25 at Thomaston, Alabama in the renovated Home Economics Building of the old Marengo County High School. Students at Auburn University’s Rural...
View ArticleThe Safe House Black History Museum at Greensboro, AL (recently renovated by...
On the night of March 21, 1968, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sought refuge from the Ku Klux Klan inside a small, shotgun-style home in the depot neighborhood of Greensboro, AL. (This occurred just two...
View ArticleMarion, AL – Perry Lakes Park (contains several Rural Studio designs)
In recent years, Bald Eagles have nested in a giant loblolly pine near the entrance to this 600-acre park. The park contains four oxbow lakes, formed when the Cahaba River changed its course about 150...
View ArticleSt. Luke’s Episcopal Church at the Old Cahawba Archaeological Park (built 1854)
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic church, built in 1854 at Cahaba (also spelled Cahawba), the first capital of Alabama from 1820 to 1826. The builder closely followed plans...
View ArticleWhite-Morrisette House at Newbern, AL (built 1890, currently the headquarters...
This beautiful two-story Victorian-style home was completed in 1890 by Robert Allen White, a prominent merchant and banker in Newbern, AL. It has Victorian gables on the front and a long porch running...
View ArticleNewbern Fire Station at Newbern, AL (built by Rural Studio Students)
The Newbern Fire Station was designed and constructed by four fifth year architecture students at Auburn University’s Rural Studio. This 4,000 sq. ft. building was completed in 2005. The structure was...
View ArticleThe Rural Studio Red Barn at Newbern, AL
In 1993, Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee and D. K. Ruth of the Auburn University School of Architecture established the Rural Studio at Newbern which was aimed to improve living conditions in rural West Alabama...
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