Old Dauphin Way Historic District
Old Dauphin Way Historic District | |
30°41′14.24″N 88°4′7.10″W / 30.6872889°N 88.0686389°W / 30.6872889; -88.0686389 | |
Area | 766 acres (310 ha) |
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Built | 1830 |
Architect | 19th and 20th century revivals, Late Victorian |
Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian, Bungalow-Craftsman |
NRHP reference No. | 84000686[1][2] (original) 100007800 (increase) |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | 30 August 1984[1][2] |
Boundary increase | June 17, 2022 |
The Old Dauphin Way Historic District is a historic district in the city of Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was named for Dauphin Way, now known as Dauphin Street, which bisects the center of the district from east to west.[3] The district is roughly bounded by Broad Street on the east, Springhill Avenue on the north, Government Street on the south, and Houston Avenue on the west.[2] Covering 766 acres (3.10 km2) and containing 1466 contributing buildings, Old Dauphin Way is the largest historic district in Mobile.
Although most of the district contains working-class frame houses, large and ornate mansions are found along the main thoroughfares. The contributing buildings range in age from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. Architectural styles include Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and American Foursquare.[2]
History
The Old Dauphin Way District is situated on portions of what was once the Price and Espejo tracts, early Spanish land grants to the west of colonial Mobile. The area began to first be developed during the 1830s and 1840s. This early development mostly comprised residential estates along the roads leading from downtown to the village of Spring Hill. These included Spring Hill Road (now Spring Hill Avenue), Spring Hill Shell Road (now Old Shell Road), and Dauphin Way (now Dauphin Street).[4] The district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1984.[1]
- Examples of architecture within the Old Dauphin Way Historic District
- Shepard House at 1552 Monterey Place, also originally known as Monterey Place, built in the Queen Anne-style in 1897
- "Canebreak" at 1406 Brown Street, built in the Colonial Revival-style in 1930 to replace an earlier antebellum house that burned
- R.C. Macy House at 1569 Dauphin Street, built in the Gothic Revival style in 1867
- Mission Revival-style house built in 1905 at 1802 Old Government Street
- Dorgan Cottage, a Creole cottage built in 1860 at 22 South Lafayette Street
- Cameron-Sanders House, built in the Queen Anne-style in 1894 at 1001 Dauphin Street
References
- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Alabama: Mobile County". "Nationalhistoricalregister.com". Retrieved January 28, 2008.
- ^ "Welcome to the Old Dauphin Way Association's Website". Old Dauphin Way Association. Retrieved October 6, 2009.
- ^ "Historic Highlights of Old Dauphin Way". Old Dauphin Way Association. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
External links
- Old Dauphin Way Association
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Landmarks
- Government Street Presbyterian Church
- Mobile City Hall
- USS Alabama
- USS Drum
districts
- Africatown Historic District
- Ashland Place Historic District
- The Campground
- Church Street East Historic District
- Common Street District
- Convent and Academy of the Visitation
- De Tonti Square Historic District
- Leinkauf Historic District
- Lower Dauphin Street Historic District
- Maysville Historic District
- Midtown Historic District
- Oakleigh Garden Historic District
- Old Dauphin Way Historic District
properties
- Aimwell Baptist Church
- Wade Askew House
- Azalea Court Apartments
- Barton Academy
- Battle House Royale
- Beal–Gaillard House
- Bettie Hunter House
- Bragg–Mitchell Mansion
- Brisk & Jacobson Store
- Caldwell School
- Carlen House
- Carolina Hall
- Cavallero House
- Center–Gaillard House
- U. J. Cleveland House
- Coley Building
- Collins–Marston House
- Collins–Robinson House
- Convent of Mercy
- D'Iberville Apartments
- Dahm House
- Davis Avenue Branch, Mobile Public Library
- Davis Avenue Recreation Center
- Denby House
- Emanuel AME Church
- Emanuel Building
- George Fearn House
- Fire Station No. 5
- First National Bank
- Fort Charlotte
- Gates–Daves House
- Georgia Cottage
- Greene–Marston House
- Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Passenger Terminal
- Hawthorn House
- Martin Horst House
- International Longshoreman's Association Hall
- Joseph Jossen House
- Kirkbride House
- George Levy House
- Martin Lindsey House
- Magnolia Cemetery
- Meaher–Zoghby House
- Ernest Megginson House
- Metzger House
- Miller–O'Donnell House
- Mobile City Hospital
- Monterey Place
- James Arthur Morrison House
- Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church No.1
- Murphy High School
- Neville House
- Oakleigh
- Paterson House
- J. E. Paterson House
- Dave Patton House
- Pfau–Crichton Cottage
- Phillipi House
- Pincus Building
- Bishop Portier House
- Protestant Children's Home
- Roberts House
- Ross Knox House
- St. Francis Street Methodist Church
- Saint Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church
- Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
- St. Louis Street Missionary Baptist Church
- Saint Matthew's Catholic Church
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Chapel
- Saint Vincent de Paul
- Scottish Rite Temple
- Raphael Semmes House
- Sodality Chapel
- South Lafayette Street Creole Cottages
- Robert L. Spotswood House
- Spring Hill College Quadrangle
- State Street AME Zion Church
- Amelia Stewart House
- Stewartfield
- Stone Street Baptist Church
- Stone Street Cemetery
- Trinity Episcopal Church
- Tschiener House
- Turner-Todd Motor Company
- United States Court House and Custom House
- United States Marine Hospital
- Arthur VanderSys House
- Jacob VanderSys House
- Vickers and Schumacher Buildings
- Joseph M. Walker House
- Weems House
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