Mobile Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Ashland Place Historic District

  Ashland Place Historic District, in Mobile, Alabama, is named for a house that burned in 1926. This neighborhood takes its name from a Greek Revival antebellum house called Ashland that once stood on Lanier Avenue, famous as the home of Augusta Evans Wilson until the house burned in 1926.

• Midtown Historic District

  Some 1,270 contributing buildings make up the Midtown Historic District in Mobile, Alabama. This is a district that was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 2001, with a small boundary increase recorded on November 18, 2020.

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  Trinity Episcopal Church

  Look at Trinity Episcopal Church, Alabama's first Gothic Revival church. This building was the first large Gothic Revival church built in Alabama, designed by architects Frank Wills and Henry Dudley.

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  Leinkauf Historic District

  Government, Eslava, Lamar, and Monterey Streets frame the Leinkauf Historic District in Mobile, Alabama. Imagine a place formally acknowledged on June 24, 1987, when it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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  Carlen House

  Michael and Mary Carlen, Irish immigrants, raised twelve children in this 1843 Gulf Coast cottage, the Carlen House, here in Mobile, Alabama. This house was the home of Michael and Mary Carlen, Irish immigrants, and their twelve children, and during the 19th century it operated as a working farm.

All 19 stops

• Trinity Episcopal Church (Mobile)

  Look at Trinity Episcopal Church, Alabama's first Gothic Revival church.

• Amelia Stewart House (Common Street District)

  Picture the Amelia Stewart House, also called the Carol O. Wilkinson House and the William Hallett House.

• Greene-Marston House (Mobile)

  Picture the Greene-Marston House, better known to locals as Termite Hall.

• George Fearn House (Mobile)

  Mobile's first Spanish Colonial Revival building is the George Fearn House.

• Leinkauf Historic District (Leinkauf Historic District)

  Government, Eslava, Lamar, and Monterey Streets frame the Leinkauf Historic District in Mobile, Alabama.

• Paterson House (Mobile)

  Platt Roberts designed the Paterson House, an 8,000-square-foot Mediterranean Revival home in Mobile, Alabama.

• J. E. Paterson House (Mobile)

  Built in 1929, the J. E. Paterson House in Mobile, Alabama, wears the Spanish Colonial Revival style.

• Azalea Court Apartments (Mobile)

  Three stories of Spanish Colonial Revival: the Azalea Court Apartments.

• George Levy House (Mobile)

  A 50 by 140 foot lot holds the George Levy House, also known as the Allan Bailey House, a one-story home in Mobile, Alabama.

• Arthur VanderSys House (Mobile)

  Since 1926 the Arthur VanderSys House has stood in Mobile, Alabama, in Spanish Colonial Revival style.

• Jacob VanderSys House (Mobile)

  Spanish Colonial Revival meets Mission Revival at the Jacob VanderSys House in Mobile, Alabama.

• Wade Askew House (Mobile)

  The Wade Askew House in Mobile, Alabama, went up in 1927 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style.

• Joseph M. Walker House (Mobile)

  Here in Mobile, Alabama, the Joseph M. Walker House has carried its Spanish Colonial Revival silhouette since 1927.

• Ernest Megginson House (Mobile)

  Ernest M. Megginson, four-time Mayor of Mobile, lends his name to this one-story, informally landscaped house built in 1927 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style.

• Blue Bird Hardware and Seed (Mobile)

  Blue Bird Hardware and Seed opened in 1955 as an agricultural supply store in Mobile, Alabama.

• Ashland Place Historic District (Ashland Place)

  Ashland Place Historic District, in Mobile, Alabama, is named for a house that burned in 1926.

• Midtown Historic District (Midtown Historic District)

  Some 1,270 contributing buildings make up the Midtown Historic District in Mobile, Alabama.

• Maysville Historic District (Maysville)

  Maysville Historic District spreads across 451 acres and 1,121 properties southwest of downtown Mobile, directly south of the Leinkauf Historic District.

• Carlen House (Murphy High School)

  Michael and Mary Carlen, Irish immigrants, raised twelve children in this 1843 Gulf Coast cottage, the Carlen House, here in Mobile, Alabama.

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