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This eight-story building with a penthouse was apparently constructed in 1958. The 1957 city directory indicates that there were three houses on the south...
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That church did lose the top of its steeple, but it was the 1916 hurricane that gets credit for the damage. A cross...
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Although converted to a recirculating fountain in 1967, this Downtown fixture was originally designed to be a trough, providing water to passing...
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Construction of the Bragg-Mitchell Mansion began in 1855, but it was not built by the famed general. It was actually erected by his...
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“Mobile’s Finest Department Store” thrived in a building that previously housed the largest laundry and dye...
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Eugenia Levy Phillips, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, came to Mobile as a 16-year-old newlywed in 1836. She had married...
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In 1838, following a series of yellow fever epidemics, a Catholic orphan’s asylum was established in Mobile on Conti Street across from...
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In September 1979, Mobile was hit with Hurricane Frederic, its costliest storm to date. Thousands of trees fell, knocking down power lines....
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In 1920, all of America went dry as the federal government outlawed the manufacture, transportation or sale of alcoholic beverages. And almost immediately, ...
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Mobile seems to have a history of becoming dissatisfied with its public meeting spaces. Each generation has touted a new auditorium or meeting space...
