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A Good Time Was Had by All
With family history in the venue and family staples on the menu, the Namans know how to let the good times roll.
The USO in Mobile
Turn back time with this 1940’s photograph from the Mobile chapter of USO
Ask McGehee: Where did the name of the Leinkauf historic district originate?
That designated district, located south of Government Street, is named for the historic public school located on Church Street.
Ask McGehee: Who designed Mobile’s Battle House Hotel?
Although routinely missing from a list of his creations, the Battle House Hotel was designed by renowned architect Frank Mills Andrews in 1906.
Ask McGehee: What’s the history of the Girls’ Preparatory School of Mobile?
Girls’ Preparatory School would probably have enjoyed a long run, but the stock market crash and untimely death of the school's founder caused the institution to close its doors.
A Little Garden of Eden
Historian John Sledge leads us on a stroll through the streets of Spanish Mobile.
Ask McGehee: What is the history of the lost waterfront resort Frascati?
In 1866, Henry Nabring, an owner of the Battle House Hotel, purchased a 15-acre site at the end of Conception Street and dubbed it Frascati.
Ask McGehee
What Downtown luxury hotel burned, just before opening its doors?
Erik Overbey, Mobile’s Chronicler
Meet one of the city’s most prolific photographers of all time — a man who contributed a multitude of everyday lifestyle images to our local archives.
UMS Band, 1905
The young faces of the military school band are given new life.  ORIGINAL PHOTO FROM THE DOY LEALE MCCALL RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, ...
