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WVUA coverage of the June 22 presentation on the 1887 Tuscaloosa panoramic map ROBERTOREG June 22 Jemison House Presentation - YouTube

Historic Tuscaloosa kicks off summer lecture series - WVUA 23

If you are interested in ONLY the blog post for my June 22 presentation @ the Jemison House, here's the link. Reclaim Alabama

Nick Ballenger of WVUA-TV covered my presentation and it was on the 10 o'clock news last night .

The newest blog post on RECLAIM ALABAMA will be dedicated to collecting images of all the PAST HORIZONS buildings which can possibly be found on the 1887 map. This post will start out as just "the first post" on the current RECLAIM ALABAMA blog page but eventually it will fill the blog. If you are interested in simply keeping up with the progress of only THIS "PAST HORIZONS buildings on the 1887 MAP" post, here's the link. https://reclaimalabama.blogspot.com/2023/06/post-will-be-dedicated-to-collecting.html

It will grow. Guaranteed.

from the Thursday, June 22 WVUA 10 o'clock NEWSCAST:

"I want to show people how they can use that map to learn everything they want to know about Tuscaloosa, not from 1887 but from 1821 until 2023 because the street grid on that map is unchanged since 1821." ~ Robert Register

"Register's lecture consisted of the history of the state, the first sale of land in Tuscaloosa and what has changed since. Register's knowledge of details pertaining to the map is unmatched. He shared information of who lived in each house and what businesses used to be here." ~ Nick Ballenger of WVUA-TV

"I know Robert Register who probably knows as much about Tuscaloosa history as anyone in Tuscaloosa." ~ Brock Jones, member of Historic Tuscaloosa

link to the June 22 WVUA newscast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnggXT-6yFE

PAST HORIZONS buildings on the 1887 MAP

1. E.N.C. Snow House (1830), 2414 8th Street (Union Street) showing the west side and back of E.N. C. Snow house with Methodist Church across the street

Link to the HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDING'S SURVEY 206-AL for the E.N.C. Snow House http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/al0786/

2. Jones-Cochrane House (1835), 1300 block of 21st. Ave. with the Deering Swaim house across the street on the south

from the Historic American Buildings Survey

3. Hester-deGraffenried House (1835), northeast corner of Greensboro and 13th Street with Jemison House across the street

Link to history of Hester-DeGraffenried House https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/local/2019/05/01/tuscaloosa-200-moment-in-history-degraffenried-house/5179906007/

4. J.T. Searcy House (1832), 2604 8th St. facing Pike Street (8th St.)

5. Owen-Free House (1826), 1817 3rd. St.

Jones House is on the left

Dr. John Owen; Tuscaloosa's first doctor & Methodist minister

6. Jones House (1833), 1804 4th Street

the house in the middle of the image, between the Little-Ormond House (1835) on the left and the Owen-Free House (1826) on the right.

Sarah Francis Owen

Thomas Jefferson Burke, editor

Devane K. Jones

7. Ormond-Little House (1835), 325 Queen City Ave.,

J.J. Ormond

8. University Club (1834), 421 Queen City Ave.,

Captain James Dearing

Governor Arthur P. Bagby

9. Guild-Verner House (1822), 1901 University Boulevard,

Dr. James Guild, C.B. Verner-1911 added columns

10. Buck Carriage House (1854), 1818 University Boulevard

11. Turner-McAlpin-Fellows (1840), 621 Queen City Ave.

Joseph Pittman Turner

12. McEachin-Little House (1842), 709 Queen City Ave.,

1919 Richard Little

13. Palmer Deal House (1866), 1902 8th St.

14. Moody-Warner (1822), 1925 8th St.

Davis Scott

Burwell Boykin Lewis

Mrs. Lewis (Garland)

Dr. George Little

Washington Moody, grandson of Washington Moody

15.Foster-Murfee-Caples House (1838), 815 17th Ave.

16. Collier-Boone House (1820), 905 21st Ave.

James Walker, builder

Henry W. Collier- Governor of Alabama 1849-1853

Dorothea Dix 1846

17. Williams-James House (1835)

Ivy Towers

Marmaduke Williams

Dr. Joshua Foster Baptist preacher

Robison Brown attorney and UA land commissioner children, Mrs. W.K.E. James, Admiral Charles R. Brown Commander Sixth Fleet 1956-1958; Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces in Europe (1958-1962)

Originally one-story and L-shaped

field stone 3 end-interior chimneys and hearths

1909: portico was replaced by gallery; became T-shaped when second story was added

18. Jemison-Brandon-Waugh House (1840), 1005 17th Avenue

https://tavm.omeka.net/items/show/1076

William Henry Jemison

Sold to Sterling Alexander Martin Wood 1865 "Woodlawn"

W.W. Brandon

Henry Waugh

19. Stillman Institute Home (1876), 1008 21st Ave. (house in the middle of the block on the right side of the street)

1881-1889

20. Lee-Praig House (1850), 1019 21st Ave.

18. Glascock House (1844), 1109 21st. Ave.

John Glasscock

19. Miller-Harrison-Laseter House (1847), 1601 Alaca Place

Richard B. Baugh bought it in 1863. Sold in 1879 when Baugh's cotton mill went bankrupt.

https://tavm.omeka.net/items/show/379

Maltese Cross - 3 entrances and 3 porches

originally facing west with avenue of oaks from the March 13, 1870 Tuskaloosa Gazette

William Miller

Richard B. Baugh 1863

J. Calhoun Harrison- 1879

Mrs. Harrison was a poet.

Neilson Laseter

Does anyone know the dates or approximate dates the big houses that once faced Queen City Ave. but were turned to face the street & other houses built on the street? Such as 1601 Alaca Place? It is remarkable they could turn those houses like that which had to be quite a long time ago. My family rented the upstairs of 1601 Alaca Place from about 1931 to 1940 & I never heard of this from them growing up. Thank you, Tommy Stuart

As far as I know, of the 7 houses with driveways on the 1887 map which were built south of 7th Street facing west in Section 23 east of Queen City Avenue, only 2 were ever moved to face in a different direction: Miller-Harrison-Laseter, 1601 Alaca Place and Foster-Cummings, 1600 Dearing Place. Moving the Miller-Harrison-Laseter House began in June of 1920 when W.S. Wyman bought the house and surrounding 4 and a half acres, rolled the house to the rear of the property and subdivided it into 25 fifty foot front by 140 foot deep lots. I'll post the June 15, 1920 Tuscaloosa News article about the purchase and plans for the subdivision on the blog right now!

20. Falgout House (1850), 1305 Queen City Ave.(looks like the Falgout House was moved to its present location after 1887)

21. Foster-Cummings House (1827), 1600 Dearing Place (house on the left)

Charles M. Foster, builder

originally 3 story and faced west

high straight steps to the second floor

1930s 2 stories moved south

first bathtub O. M. Cummings

22. Dearing-Swaim House (1835), 2111 14th Street

23. Anchor Civic Club-Watt Building (1875), 1000 22nd Ave. (building on the corner of the block in the lower left of image)

24. Hunter's Chapel AME Church, 1107 22nd Ave.

1880s Reverend E.H. Hunter

1881-located on this site

1910-bricked

25. Jemison-Borghese House (1860), 2302 13th St. (house is on the left behind Jemison-Van de Graaff House)

slave cabin store

from the October 30, 1952 GREENE COUNTY DEMOCRAT

solid brick and stucco

chimney's in exterior walls

Louis Borghese, attorney 1978

26. Carriage House Antiques (1877), 2310 15th St. (probably one of the two small buildings in the left center of the image)

1877 Strickland "Honeymoon House", Charles Strickland with bride

dependency of the Strickland House which was moved to Capitol Park

1978 owner Simril F. Bryant, Jr.

27. Drish House (1830), south end of 23rd Ave.

28. Capitol Park

29. Old Tavern (1827), 2800 28th Avenue (original location was on the north side of the 2500 block of University Boulevard across the street from the present-day THE ATTIC furniture store.)

30. Brady House (1880), 2720 University Boulevard (demolished)

31. Falgout House (1887), 2710 University Boulevard (demolished)

32. Callahan Office (1880), 2708 University Boulevard (demolished)

33. Nichols Office (1880), 2704 University Boulevard (demolished) (only a single dwelling is found on the 2700 block of University Boulevard in 1887)

34. Maxwell House (1887), 2711 6th St. (built on this block but moved to this lot) (no buildings are on the south side of the 2700 block of 6th Street on the 1887 map)

35. Old Jail (1835), southwest corner of 6th Street and 28th Avenue

36. Strickland House (1820), Capitol Park but originally on the northeast corner of 15th St. and Greensboro Ave. (one of the two smaller buildings on the center- right corner of the block)