REMEMBERED PAST, DISCOVERED FUTURE; THE ALABAMA ARCHITECTURE OF WARREN KNIGHT & DAVIS, 1906-1961 . . . CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITIONS AT BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART, BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM VISUAL ARTS GALLERY.

"Remembered Past, Discovered Future: The Alabama Architecutre of Warren Knight & Davis, 1906-1961" is an extensively researched and comprehensive catalog published to accompany a 1999 exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art. William T. Warren, Eugene H. Knight, and John E. Davis formed the partnership of Warren, Knight & Davis in Birmingham in 1921. The original partners built a firm that was not only prolific but also integral to the development of Birmingham, the state of Alabama, and the Southeast during the first half of the twentieth century. Author John M. Schnorrenberg illustrates how the firm was created and became the dominant architectural firm in Alabama from the 1920s to at least the end of the 1950s. Outside of Birmingham, the firm contributed designs to several structures in the Montgomery state capitol complex, buildings on college and university campuses throughout the state, and courthouses in cities and towns throughout Alabama and Florida. In and around Birmingham, Warren Knight & Davis designed many of the commercial buildings that define the city’s skyline, a majority of public school buildings in the city, and many homes for the city’s most prominent residents. During the 1920s alone, the firm designed, among other buildings, the Alabama Power Building, Independent Presbyterian Church, Protective Life Building, Norwood School, Country Club of Birmingham, Birmingham Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and homes for several of Birmingham’s most distinguished residents, including Theodore Swann.