Kerry & Ron Sibold Home

More of this Feature • Part 1: Burritt Mansion • Part 2: Schneider Home • Part 3: Sibold Home • Part 4: Maples/Goldsmith Home • Part 5: French Garden • Part 6: Ritch Home • Part 7: Curl Home • Part 8: Balch House

Top Picks • Top Picks for Huntsville

Related Resources • Huntsville From A to Z • 2002 Monte Sano Homes • Burritt on the Mountain

The Sibold's built this 19th century southern Appalachian lodge design in 2000 to complement the natural beauty of Monte Sano. The spacious home offers elements such as an approach that meanders through four acres of hickory and oak trees, sweeping porches lined with bentwood furniture from the Blue Ridge, hundreds of white pine logs hand-hewn with an old-time adz, a sweeping front colonnade supported by 19th century hand-cut sandstone, four stacked stone fireplaces, modeled after those at Burritt, and many other architectural features reminiscent of the period.  Not to be too parochial, the home also offers features from all over the world:  a Tudor mantelpiece imported from a grand country house on Lake Simcoe in Canada, three dramatic light fixtures, fashioned from wagon wheels that once traveled the Oregon Trail, and a number of nickel plumbing fixtures hand cast in England from original molds of the Edwardian period. 

Photo courtesy of Buzz Heeschen
4241 Nolen Avenue - Kerry & Ron Sibold Home

Next page >Margaret Anne Goldsmith & Mike Maples Home

©2002 Jean Brandau, licensed to About.com