Richard B. Hudgens

• Richard B. Hudgens, President
  Richard B. Hudgens Architect, Inc.

• Bachelor of Architecture, Auburn University 1975
  Bachelor of Science in Building Construction, Auburn University 1975

• Graduate of Attingham Summer School
  Shropshire, England 1982

• Graduate of Architectural Conservation Course
  West Dean College, England 1984

• National Council Architectural Registration Boards
  NCARB Certificate No. 37829

• Architectural Consultant to the Selma Historical Development Commission

• Instructor, Rural Studio
  Historic Architecture Seminar
  College of Architecture, Design, and Construction
  Auburn University

• Member American Institute of Architects
  Member Montgomery Chapter, American Institute of Architects (former President)
  Member National Trust
  Member Alabama Trust (former Board Member)
  Member Alabama Historical Association
  Member Southern Garden History Society
  Member Selma/Dallas County Historical Preservation Society

Mr. Hudgens began his firm in 1979 in Linden, Alabama and relocated the firm to Selma, Alabama in 1989. The firm has a general architectural practice centered in West Alabama and has specialized in historical restoration and renovation projects; especially tax act projects throughout Alabama and as a consultant in Mississippi.

As a consultant to the City of Selma, Mr. Hudgens drafted the new Historic Ordinance for Selma’s Historic Districts.

Mr. Hudgens was the architectural representative for the National Trust Study Team that visited Ashland, Wisconsin to help them begin their Main Street Project in 1991.

Mr. Hudgens received the Distinguished Service Award from the Alabama Historical Commission in November 1996 for Career Achievement in Historic Preservation work.

Mr. Hudgens has been a speaker at numerous meetings of the Live-In-A-Landmark Society and Alabama Historical Commission Conferences over the years.

Mr. Hudgens regularly attends regional antique forums in the South.

Mr. Hudgens is a private consultant to individuals in appraising nineteenth century American furniture and decorative arts.

Mr. Hudgens has consulted with and worked with Marvin Schwartz, curator of nineteenth century decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and co-author of the book, The Furniture of John Henry Belter and the Roccoco Revival on the interiors of Sturdivant Hall House Museum in Selma, Alabama. As a former member of the Board of Directors of Sturdivant Hall; Mr. Hudgens was Chairman of the House Committee and wrote a plan for the reinterpretation of the interiors.

Mr. Hudgens has worked closely with Historic New England, formerly The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, in procuring their services to provide a paint analysis of the interiors and exterior of the St. James Hotel, an 1837 antebellum riverfront hotel in Selma, Alabama and of the interiors of the Jemison – Van de Graaff mansion in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Mr. Hudgens has also worked closely with R.S. Webb and Associates who provided the archaeological testing and data recovery work at the St. James Hotel site.

Mr. Hudgens has consulted with U.S. Axminster to recreate period nineteenth century carpeting for the Jemison – Van de Graff mansion in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Mr. Hudgens is an Adjunct Professor at Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction Rural Studio in Newbern, Alabama. Mr. Hudgens currently teaches an Architectural History Seminar and Watercolor class and formerly taught Materials and Methods I and Architectural History I. One of the class subjects is the history of architecture in West Alabama and teaches the students about nineteenth century antebellum Alabama residential architecture and period interiors.

Mr. Hudgens received The Education Honors Program Honorable Mention Award from the American Institute of Architects in June of 1995 for the work of the Rural Studio.

Mr. Hudgens has successfully completed numerous Historic Restoration Projects and projects that have qualified for Historic Preservation Tax Credits over the past 36 years, including buildings listed on the National Register, National Historic Landmarks, and buildings contributing to National Register Historic Districts.

Mr. Hudgens was the historic architectural consultant on the renovation and restoration of the 1914 Beaux Arts Meridian City Hall in Meridian, Mississippi. Mr. Hudgens was responsible for the restoration of the exterior architectural terra cotta, replication of historic windows and worked closely with George Fore, an architectural materials and finishes specialist, on the restoration of the historic plaster, marble, wood, scagliola, and decorative paint finishes inside the building as well as replication of historic light fixtures.

Mr. Hudgens has successfully completed numerous projects for the Alabama Historical Commission on their National Register properties over the past 30 years including multiple phases on their properties over the years.