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Barry and Bonnie Ponstein invite you to share the comforts and pleasures of Red Bluff Cottage, high above the Alabama River in Montgomery's historic Cottage Hill District. Raised Cottage style Light, airy interior Family Antiques Among the Beautiful Decor. Scenic Views of the State Capital and Panorama of the River Plain from the Verandah and Gazebo.

Historic Montgomery - Birthplace of the Civil War, the nation's first electric streetcar system, and the Civil Rights movement -- offers a variety of entertaining and educational sites. Guests at Red Bluff Cottage are just a few blocks from The First White House of the Confederacy, "Old Alabama Town," The State Archives Building, The State Capitol, The Civil Rights Memorial, The Civic Center, and The Riverfront Park.

Located near the junction of Interstate highways 85 and 65, Red Bluff Cottage takes its name from the first inhabitants' descriptive name of this site, Channenuggee Chatty (High Red Bluff). Red Bluff Cottage was built as a bed and breakfast in 1987 by retired Episcopal priest, Mark Waldo and his wife, Anne. The present owners, Barry and Bonnie Ponstein, are passing on the tradition of sharing their comfortable establishment with guests from near and far.

A unique feature of the Cottage is the placement of guest rooms on the ground floor and the common areas upstairs, where guests can enjoy breakfast and socializing, while taking maximum advantage of the views, breezes, and natural light.

A restoration of the Antebellum State Capital, carefully executed in every detail, recalls the sometimes prosperous and sometimes turbulent history of the state. Chosen near the navigational head of a great river system, the capital city became the hub of an expanding railroad network linking east and west, north and south in the cotton rich-antebellum slave economy of the "heart of Dixie". One mile west of Red Bluff Cottage, Maxwell Air Force Base had its seed in the Wright Brothers struggle to get a heavier than air vehicle off the ground, and by pilot training in World War I. It grew, training US and allied pilots in World War II, and today Maxwell is the center of Air Force professional education as the Air University.

The nearby Montgomery Zoo features spacious, natural environments. Hidden barriers separate fine specimens of predators from the rich variety of their grazing, climbing, and flying potential prey. Old Alabama Town holds 19th Century Alabama history in a few carefully selected city blocks into which magnificent mansions, a 19th century cotton gin, and typical plantation outbuildings, country churches and modest urban homes and shops tell their stories. The Alabama Shakespeare Festival Theaters and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts have magnificent buildings in the Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park, modeled by its landscape architects after traditional English country landscapes.

Red Bluff Cottage Bed & Breakfast is a member of the following associations:
   Bed & Breakfast Association of Alabama

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