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It covers eight properties in the Spring Hill neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama, all built during the mid-19th century. They represent the most intact buildings to survive from the period when Spring Hill was a summer retreat town for wealthy Mobilians seeking to escape the heat and yellow fever epidemics of the city.
Michael Portier, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile, purchased 300 acres (1.2 km 2) in Spring Hill in 1830 for the establishment of Spring Hill College, initially a Jesuit seminary and boarding school. [8] It is the oldest institution of higher education in Alabama, the oldest Catholic college in the South and fifth oldest in the United States ...
Mobile's population had increased from around 40,000 people in 1900 to 60,000 by 1920. [6] Between 1940 and 1943, over 89,000 people moved into Mobile to work for war effort industries. [7] By 1956 the city limits had tripled to accommodate growth. The city lost many of its historic buildings during urban renewal in the 1960s and 1970s. This ...
Location of Mobile County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mobile County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
The district is roughly bounded by Broad Street on the east, Springhill Avenue on the north, Government Street on the south, and Houston Avenue on the west. [2] Covering 766 acres (3.10 km 2) and containing 1466 contributing buildings, Old Dauphin Way is the largest historic district in Mobile.
He was admitted to the bar in 1830 and moved to Mobile in 1836, where he continued the practice of law. He was appointed judge to Alabama's 10th Judicial Circuit in 1842, later leaving that post after being elected to the 32nd United States Congress. He bought the property at 1906 Springhill Avenue on 10 May 1855 for the sum of $7500 and began ...
Stewartfield is a historic residence on the campus of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was built in 1849 in a Greek Revival style. [2] The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as a part of the 19th Century Spring Hill Neighborhood Thematic Resource on October 18, 1984. [1]
The Convent and Academy of the Visitation, properly known today as the Visitation Monastery, is a historic complex of Roman Catholic religious buildings and a small cemetery in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The buildings and grounds were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.