Received as an exceptional example of a modern residence locally and nationally, through general-interest and specialized publications and generated local interest within the arts and architecture community.

A 1959 Progressive Architecture survey of architect-as-designer-and-as-client residences includes the Alexander Residence in a selection of modern homes under the Alexander quote: “the family should feel itself a unit – thus, the circular plan.” Included is extensive photography of interior and exterior spaces and a floor plan. The same issue focuses on the roof structure as one of its “p/a selected” details.

Editorial interest in the structure is demonstrated by selection of a photograph of the folded plate roof as an illustration for an advertising flyer soliciting subscriptions for the magazine.

A 1959 Life magazine series of articles “Tomorrow’s Life Today” considers the “new technology” and the “changes it makes in everyday world.” According to Life, this new technology includes jet-engine autos, nylon air houses, an aluminum beach house by Alcoa, an RCA-designed electronic kitchen, the Monsanto Chemical Company’s experimental plastic house, and houses designed by Ulrich Franzen, Eduardo Catalano, and Cecil Alexander. A photograph of the Alexander residence court is accompanied by a description of the roof design: “Creased roof … is made of laminated plywood folded around plastic skylight and held together by cable threaded through lower edge…Light and cheap, it provides unsupported span for modern, uncluttered interior.”

A period brochure from the Atlanta Art Association marketing tours of “Atlanta’s Most Famous Homes” to convention attendees includes four photographs of the residence. More recently, the Atlanta Preservation Center included the home in its “Ancients and Moderns” event in fall of 2004. This event included a panel discussion between the “moderns” – John Portman, Joe Amisano, Henri Jova, Preston Stevens, Jerome Cooper, and Cecil Alexander.