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The building is also known as United States Post Office and Courthouse—Montgomery and listed under that name on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1992, it was renamed by the United States Congress in honor of Frank Minis Johnson , who had served as both a district court judge and a court of appeals judge. [ 3 ]
Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1] There are 69 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 4 National Historic Landmarks. One historic district once listed on the Register has been ...
The Court Square–Dexter Avenue Historic District is a 17.6-acre (7.1 ha) historic district in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Centered on the Court Square Fountain, the district includes twenty-seven contributing buildings and two objects. It is roughly bounded by Dexter Avenue, Perry, Court and Monroe streets.
The Lower Commerce Street Historic District is a 45-acre (18 ha) historic district in the old commercial district of Montgomery, Alabama. It includes fifty-two contributing buildings. It is roughly bounded by the Central of Georgia railroad tracks, North Lawrence Street, Madison Avenue, and Commerce Street.
The Grove Court Apartments in Montgomery, Alabama is an apartment complex built in 1947. Though it won an award for its design, it was abandoned in the 1990s and has been derelict since. Since 2013, it is listed as a historical site in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Alabama.
Roughly bounded by McDonough St. on the east, Sayre St. on the west, Washington St. on the north, and Donaldson St. on the south, Montgomery, Alabama Coordinates 32°22′26″N 86°18′27″W / 32.37389°N 86.30750°W / 32.37389; -86
Montgomery's central location in Alabama's Black Belt has long made it a processing hub for commodity crops such as cotton, peanuts, and soybeans. In 1840 Montgomery County led the state in cotton production, [ 59 ] and by 1911, the city processed 160,000–200,000 bales of cotton annually. [ 60 ]
Unit 634 was home to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, her husband Raymond, and her mother, Leona McCauley, during the Montgomery bus boycott from 1955 to 1956. The building was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on March 30, 1989, and the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 2001. [1] [2]