Yesterday was D-Day with Dick Hudgens, the second year professor for Architectural History and Materials and Methods. Every Thursday we spend the entire day from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. with Dick. The length of the class ensures an educational and exhausting day. In the mornings, we spend time reading through our textbooks, taking a test, and usually looking at slides of varied historical architecture. After lunch we all hop in our cars and follow Dick to some city in Alabama. Yesterday we went to Demopolis, the city of the people, where we visited the Bluff House and Lyon’s Hall. The Bluff House was a Federal Style home with various Greek revival characteristics. Our tour guide and Dick made sure to point out every single architectural detail of the period (1800’s). Most of the furniture and many of the artifacts like the kitchen tools, and even the clothes, were all original. It was interesting to unearth the history (more like un-dust) with Dick and the tour guide. After the tour we drew an elevation of the western wall in thirty minutes and then drove to Lyon’s Hall. Lyon’s Hall was one of the best antebellum homes we have been to yet. Much like Bluff Hall, Lyon’s hall was also a Federal Style antebellum home with Greek revival characteristics. An interesting feature is the pyramid shape of the door frames which is said to have derived from the egyptians. This is the only home, that we have visited (as of now), that had been handed down from generation to generation until the late 1900’s. All the history was still preserved in the house by the inhabitants so there was a plethora of artifacts telling the story of the house. One important discovery in the house was the family Bible, which held in its contents the records of all the marriages, births, deaths, and things of that nature. The tour guide did an excellent job telling the story of the house. After the tour we drew an elevation of the eastern wall in thirty minutes and handed our sketchbooks to Dick. Another trip with Dick was finished, and the exhaustive, heated, informative day was complete.