Since 1907, when local businessman Newton J. Bell built it, the Bell Building has anchored downtown Montgomery, and you are at its foot. For a time it was the tallest building in Montgomery, rising to a height of 187 feet and changing the skyline around you. The entire 12th floor and the roof were once rented by the Beauvoir Club — the predecessor of the Montgomery Country Club — after they sold their mansion on Perry Street and signed a ten-year lease here.
Decades later the building’s historic significance was recognized when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. More recently the Bell Building underwent a multimillion-dollar revitalization to transform its upper floors into high-end apartments while bringing some retail space to the ground levels. As you stand here now, imagine the club members looking out from that twelfth-floor roof, and the steady evolution from an early office tower to the mixed-use life you see today.
Notice its 187-foot profile above, and the ground-level retail that now welcomes you into this corner of downtown.