Category: Historic Mobile Preservation Society
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Part Five, Real Homes in My Historical Fiction
This blog series is made possible through a partnership with Historic Mobile Preservation Society. The historic photos in this post are used with the permission of HMPS for my “Fragments Observed: Life During Mobile’s Progressive Era” blog series.For more information about HMPS and their mission, please visit:https://www.historicmobile.org/And for their online archives, including requests to use…
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Part Four, Bienville Square
Since the 1820s, Bienville Square has been a central point in Mobile. The downtown park is named for one of the two founders of the city, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, who served for a time as the governor of French Louisiana when Mobile was its capital in the early 1700s. This time, I’m…
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Part Three, The Athelstan Club
Facing the middle of Bienville Square from the north side of St. Francis Street is a building that doesn’t garner much notice unless you know what it is or the stylized AC logo motif on each of the three balconies catches your eye. Organized on January 8, 1873, the Athelstan Club has been a gathering…
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Part Two, The Battle House
This blog series is made possible through a partnership with Historic Mobile Preservation Society (HMPS.) HMPS’s archive collection, housed on the Oakleigh Complex in the Minnie Mitchell Archives building, is a treasure of inspiration and knowledge. Please support HMPS’s efforts in preserving not only the rich architectural legacy of our city, but the documents, literature,…
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Part One, A Snowy Day
Fragments Observed:Life During Mobile’s Progressive Era Part One, A Snowy Day This blog series is made possible through a partnership with Historic Mobile Preservation Society (HMPS.) HMPS’s archive collection, housed on the Oakleigh Complex in the Minnie Mitchell Archives building, is a treasure of inspiration and knowledge. Please support HMPS’s efforts in preserving not only…
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