Since 1926 the Arthur VanderSys House has stood in Mobile, Alabama, in Spanish Colonial Revival style. Built in 1926, this house wears the Spanish Colonial Revival style named right in its record. Imagine the moment it was created and the neighborhood it joined — a 1926 building that would later be recognized for its place in the city’s architectural story.
On July 12, 1991, the house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, a formal nod to its significance and to the style it represents. It is also part of the Spanish Revival Residences in Mobile Multiple Property Submission, linking it to other homes of the same design impulse in this city. Stand here and think of those two dates — 1926 and July 12, 1991 — as bookends: the year the house was built and the day it was nationally recorded.
You are literally in front of a named piece of Mobile history, the Arthur VanderSys House, and the facts about it are plain and proud on the record. Notice the house's details, then let the street and its surrounding houses come into view.