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Around Town Mobile Carnival Museum. Sure, you know that Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in America, but there’s so much more to learn, and class is in session at the Mobile Carnival Museum.
Covering 766 acres (3.10 km 2) and containing 1466 contributing buildings, Old Dauphin Way is the largest historic district in Mobile. Although most of the district contains working-class frame houses, large and ornate mansions are found along the main thoroughfares. The contributing buildings range in age from the mid-19th to the early 20th ...
Mardi Gras Park is a municipal park in downtown Mobile, Alabama, US. The park is bounded by Government Street to the north, Royal Street to the east, Church Street to the south, and St. Emanuel Street to the west. [1] The park opened in November 2016. [2] It is located on the site of the old Mobile County Courthouse. [3]
The Mobile Carnival Museum is a history museum that chronicles over 300 years [1] of Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. [2] The museum is housed in the historic Bernstein-Bush mansion on Government Street in downtown Mobile.
Active in the renovation was businessman Massey Palmer Bedsole Jr., and his wife, former State Senator Ann Bedsole of Mobile. [5] The Saenger Theatre of Mobile now functions as downtown Mobile's premiere live music concert venue and performing arts center and is the official home of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. The Saenger features the annual ...
The Midtown Historic District is a historic district in the city of Mobile, Alabama, United States.It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 2001, with a small boundary increase on November 18, 2020 [1] It is roughly bounded by Taylor Avenue, Government Street, Houston Street, Kenneth Street, Springhill Avenue, and Florida Street. [2]
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 ...
Bienville Square is a historic city park in the center of downtown Mobile, Alabama. Bienville Square was named for Mobile's founder, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville . [ 1 ] It takes up the entire block bordered by the streets of Dauphin, Saint Joseph, Saint Francis, and North Conception.