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Officers
President - Clara Armbrecht
1st Vice President - Allan Gustin
2nd Vice President - Michon Trent
3rd Vice President - Paul Shestak
Secretary - Thomas C. McGehee
Treasurer - Tunstall Inge
Board of Directors
Bob Allen
Hodge Alves
Cart Blackwell
Mary Cousar
Penny Dendy
Carol Earls Franklin
Rich Gudmundson
J. Mitchum Jackson
Dr. Kern Jackson
Stacey Killingsworth
Erica McElhaney
Allison Peebles
Bunky Ralph
Robin Roberts
Advisory Board
Wanda Cochran
Buffy Donlon
Jeff Garrett
Rob Gulledge
Stella Hester
Douglas B. Kearley
Sally Trufant
Beth Walmesley
Executive Director
Rhonda P. Davis |
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Our doors are always open to you!
Tickets for the Mobile Historic Homes Tour are $20 in advance, $25 during the event, and $17 for groups of 10 or more.
Tickets can be purchased at: The Gift Shop at Oakleigh, Mobile Arts Council, Atchison Antiques, Antiques at the Loop, Ashland Gallery, High Cotton Consignments, Five Gold Monkeys, Olde Mobile Antiques Gallery, B&B Pet Stop, Luke Edward & Company in Spanish Fort, Page and Palette in Fairhope, and Alabama Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce in Gulf Shores.
Tickets can be ordered by telephone by calling 432-6161, through are pay pal link or by filing out a ticket form. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE TICKET FORM.
Proceeds from the Mobile Historic Homes Tour benefit the Historic Mobile Preservation Society and the Oakleigh Historic Complex.
We would like to thank this year's sponsors:
The Hearin-Chandler Foundation, Olde Mobile Antiques Gallery, Iberia Bank & Hand Arendall
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Rapelje - Buck - Cutts House
(Landmark Hall)
1005 Government Street
1865; 1906
Exemplifying the cosmopolitan nature of Antebellum Mobile, this house was constructed by English born brick mason George Cox for wealthy New York merchant George Rapelje in 1865. The 1865 residence is Italianate in style. In 1904, Dr. O. F. Cawthon purchased the house for his daughter Estelle and her husband Edward J. Buck. The couple commissioned prominent architect George B. Rogers to remodel the house’s spacious interiors. Since 1989, the house and outbuildings have served as the headquarters of a shipping concern.
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Parker - May House
15 Common Street
Circa 1874
Marsena and Sara Parker built this house circa 1874. Parker’s father lived down the street at the southeast corner Dauphin and Common Streets. Few houses in Mobile possess a more picturesque setting. Set back from the street beneath a canopy of Live Oaks, the house features both Italianate and Greek Revival details. The façade’s porch resembles those of other Gulf Coast or “Creole” cottage, while the projecting gable with its charming balcony is more romantic in appearance and association. The house has been beautifully restored and renovated.
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Roberts - Taylor - Isbell House
910 Government Street
1855
This Greek Revival House residence, one featuring a pedimented temple front and recessed wings, was built in 1854. The first owner was Mr. Joel Roberts. According to oral tradition, Joel Roberts’ father, Dr. Willis Roberts, constructed an earlier house on the site. Portions of that house survive in the rear wing of his son’s grand home. The two-tiered format of the galleries was a common design solution employed on 19th-century houses in Mobile for it not only sheltered interiors from sun’s rays, but also provided a space for outdoor living. Portions of the interior were remodeled in late 19th and early 20th Century. The east wing was constructed in 1905 and the older rear wing was enlarged in 1940. Listed on the Ten Places in Peril by the Alabama Historical Commission in 1986, the house was purchased and restored by the present owners in 1994. A 2009 fire caused considerable damage. The owners faithfully restored the house for a second time.
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Yeend - Flowers House
922 Conti Street
1895
Turned posts and a jig-saw frieze enliven the façade of this Queen Anne residence. Built in 1895 for a lawyer with the last name of Yeend, the house sits close to the street and features a large rear lot. Located between prestigious Government and Dauphin Streets, this section of Conti Street upon which this house stands comprised a diverse streetscape, both architecturally and socially. The back lots of grand houses fronting Government Street were interspersed with rental buildings and middle class dwellings such as this fine home. The residence was remodeled in the 1920s. The current owners have made extensive improvements to the grounds.
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May Shotgun House
932 Conti Street
Circa 1900
“Shotgun” houses were constructed across the American South during the latter half of the 19th Century and well into the early 20th Century. Named on account of alignment of doors of within a house one-room width (a bullet could theoretically sail right through), shotgun dwellings were often constructed in rows and as rental properties. This house stands in isolation, but many shotguns were constructed on Conti Street and nearby Caroline Street around 1900. This dwelling has been renovated by the owners of 15 Common Street.
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Forcheimer - Helmer House
950 Government Street
1898
Built in 1898 for Louis and Josie Forcheimer, the house is one of the finest Queen Anne residences surviving in Mobile. Variety in materials, textures, plan, and elevations all typify this exemplar of high style Victorian residential design. A high point of Victorian architecture, the English Queen Anne style and its American derivatives were products of the Aesthetic Movement design impulses. Picturesque appearances and evocative associations were valued. As seen in this grand house, classical details, such as friezes and columns, embellish a complex massing of diverse architectural forms including porches, balconies, gables, and dormers. When restoring the house, the current owners adopted a period color scheme that highlights this abundance of architectural detail. |
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Friday, March 15, 2013
and Saturday, March 16, 2013
10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Tickets:
$20 in advance and
$25 day of the event
$17 each for groups of 10 or more
Ticket Outlets:
The Gift Shop at Oakleigh, Mobile Arts Council, Atchison Antiques, Antiques at the Loop, Ashland Gallery, High Cotton Consignments, Five Gold Monkeys, Olde Mobile Antiques Gallery, B&B Pet Stop, Luke Edward & Company in Spanish Fort, Page and Palette in Fairhope, and Alabama Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce in Gulf Shores.
Proceeds benefit the Historic Mobile Preservation Society and the Oakleigh Historic Complex
The Historic Mobile Preservation Society would like to invite you to join us for the Southern Literary Trail events during this year’s 2013 Mobile Historic Homes Tour.
Eugene Walter, At Large: A Porch Play
Saturday, March 16
4:00 p.m.
Cox-Deasy Cottage on the Oakleigh Historic Complex
Admission is complementary
From the porch of the Cox-Deasy Cottage where Eugene Walter lived, Broadway actor Joel Vig (“Hairspray”) joins Mobile scholars John Hafner and Sue Walker, the co-authors of “Literary Mobile,” to read from Walter’s memoirs. The cast performed a porch play at Cox-Deasy Cottage during Trailfest 2011, and the audience demanded a 2013 encore. Walter said, “For me, every morning on the front porch was Carnival.” Audience members may join the cast for champagne after the reading. Presented by the Southern Literary Trail and the Alabama Humanities Foundation: a state program of the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Cocktails and Conversations
Saturday, March 16
5:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m.
Oakleigh Historic Home
Admission: $15
Join us for cocktails and hors d’oeurvres and meet Broadway actor Joel Vig prior to the evening’s event. Presented by the Historic Mobile Preservation Society.
“Ruthless!” Songs from “The Bad Seed”
Saturday, March 16
6:30 p.m.
Oakleigh Historic Home
Admission is complementary
Broadway actor Joel Vig talks about his experiences in the debut cast of “Ruthless!,” a musical about an ambitious child actress and inspired by William March’s “The Bad Seed.” The presentation is highlighted with performances of songs from the show’s score. “Ruthless!” transforms “Seed” into hilarious riffs on cut-throat young actors and their relentless stage mothers. Presented by the Southern Literary Trail and the Alabama Humanities Foundation:
a state program of the National Endowment of the Humanities.
For advance ticket purchase, call 251.432.6161 |
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