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Universities and colleges in Mobile, Alabama (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Mobile, Alabama" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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Fort Morgan, also known as Fort Bowyer, is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. It is west of Gulf Shores on Mobile Point . Mobile Point extends from Gulf Shores to the west, towards historic Fort Morgan at the tip of the peninsula.
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 ...
After borrowing $20,000 to build the home, he was unable to pay back his loans, and the bank repossessed the home. With his business interests failing, Roper and his family then left Mobile, and became a lumber merchant in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1840. The bank would then sell off 24 acres of the land and rent out the home. [2]
Fort Morgan is a historic masonry pentagonal bastion fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States. Named for American Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan , it was built on the site of the earlier Fort Bowyer , an earthen and stockade-type fortification involved in the final land battles of the War of 1812 .
The earliest houses of the 1830s and 1840s tended to be cottages, with many in the Gulf Coast cottage style. Large country houses in the Greek Revival style came to dominate by the 1850s and later. [5] Marshall-Dixon House (1853), one of only two early houses that still retain their original 5-acre (2.0 ha) lots. Stewartfield is the other.
Belle Fontaine (/ ˌ b ɛ l f ɒ n ˈ t ɛ n /; French: [bɛl fɔ̃ˈtɛn] ⓘ) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, on the western shore of Mobile Bay. It is located south of the city of Mobile, along the stretch of shore between