Church Street East Historic District
 
207 S. Cedar Street - Donna and Roger Franz
This fine two story Victorian cottage was constructed in 1889 by Charles L. Scott for $2,800 as a residence. The house blends easily with its neighbors on this residential street, and exhibits features typical of Mobile's high Victorian years, including a shingled gable with a decorative bargeboard, side hall entrance, leaded glass doors, full height porch windows, turned posts with brackets, and balusters. The south elevation's delightful side balconies are an unusual feature.
 
501 Government Street - Jay P. Altmayer II
This elegant two story townhouse was constructed in 1876 by Jacob Pollock. The property is one of Mobile's finest surviving late nineteenth century urban residences, with its Italianate massing and decorative brackets, sidehall entry, round-topped doors with etched glass, quoins, water table and belt course, and projecting bay window with elegant cast iron cresting. The property is further distinguished by the beautifully intact cast iron fence and gate with star pattern and name plate, stuccoed wall and rear courtyard.
 
163 St. Emanuel Street - Spear-Barter House - Lawrence Posner
This graceful two story Italianate residence was built by the local iron founder Isaac D. Spear in 1857. It is fashioned of red brick and has a low hip roof with wide overhanging cornice distinguished by paneled soffits. The side hall entrance displays paneled pilasters that frame the door, and acanthus brackets are found beneath the lintels. Full height windows provide easy access onto the soaring, two story cast iron verandah. A pair of brick servants' quarters to the rear are rare downtown survivals of once-common support buildings.
 
Leinkauf Historic District
 
1413 Church Street - Jenna and Daniel Strickland
This Bungalow was built in 1927 by Graham Draughon and is a fine example of the middle class residential architecture that distinguished Mobile during the 1920s. The house includes all the hallmarks of the style -- offset gables with exposed purlins, an attached porch with heavy brick support pillars, elegant paired 6/1 double hung sash windows, exposed rafters, and an exterior chimney with a corbelled cap. The exterior color scheme featuring an olive body with clean white trim nicely accentuates the building's livable design.
 
Lower Dauphin Street Historic District
 
203 Dauphin Street - Busaba's - Roy Pope
This downtown commercial building was erected in 1893 by Hieronymous Scheuermann to house his "shoe emporium." Rudolph Benz was the architect, and the building bears his distinctive stamp in its sophisticated interplay of brick and stone, its strong decorative elements like the arch and engaged columns at the second story and the elaborate cornice. A number of businesses subsequently occupied the space until its restoration during the early 1990s. Busaba's Thai Cuisince, a popular eatery, now occupies the building.
 
3 S. Royal Street - Mahlon Woirhaye
This downtown commercial building has been through numerous changes down the years. Originally constructed ca. 1850, it was perhaps best known as Goldstein's Jewelry in recent decades. During the 1950s, a modern fa�ade was grafted onto the original structure, during which operation much of the original detail was lost or damaged. When the building was taken back to a more sympathetic 19th century appearance in the 1990s, historic photographs proved especially useful in the work. A popular coffee shop occupies the ground floor, and attorneys' offices the second and third stories.
 
Oakleigh Garden Historic District
 
250 Chatham Street - Twelve Oaks - Bill and Leslie Cutts
Originally constructed in 1867-8 by John Little Smith, this house underwent marked changes when the property was purchased by the Hays family in 1938. The house had originally sat in the center of a large block, but after the family subdivided the parcel, the house was moved to its present location The Hays's also removed the old two story gallery and an original kitchen. As it stands today, Twelve Oaks still boasts one of the most spectacular residential settings in the city, and its Greek Revival character is beautifully restored.
 
1005 Government Street - Landmark Hall - Bill and Leslie Cutts
This grand mansion was originally erected in 1865 for George Rapelje, a cotton broker. George W. Cox was the architect. The house was significantly altered by architect George B. Rogers (in consultation with Cox) in 1906 for Dr. O. F. Cawthon, who had bought the house for his daughter, Mrs. Estelle Buck. The result is a spectacular mixture of the Neoclassical Revival with Renaissance elements. Especially notable is the elevated positioning of the house as it fronts busy Government Street, a landscape feature that would become a defining characteristic of Rogers' work.
 
1202 Government Street -Mr. and Mrs. Gary Bornfleth
William H. Ketchum purchased the lot in May of 1875, and twenty years later willed it to his stepdaughters, Willie and Sallie Creagh. The land remained vacant for yet another twenty years, until the Creagh's built the present house in 1914. The design is attributed to C.L. Hutchisson, Sr., and bears the solid impress of his sensibility. The two story stucco main block projects an almost full width two story porch with Tuscan columns and railings, and a heavy balustrade wraps the entire first story width of the fa�ade. The red tile roof gives this building a warm presence behind Government Street's oak canopy.
 
1213 Selma Street - Nolan and Ashley McLean
In 1908 D. H. Nixon purchased lot 13 in square 5 of the Rapier Tract. The deed, granted by the Southern Realty Company, specified that Nixon was to erect a two story frame dwelling within six months of date-of-purchase. Nixon sold the house shortly thereafter, and by 1910 R. A. Douville, a local lumberman, was in residence. The house is a nice two story Neoclassical cottage, and blends well with its neighbors. The spacious porch, with its supporting Tuscan columns, provides generous protection from sun and rain and creates a pleasing rhythm on the streetscape.
 
1221 Selma Street - Steve Taylor
This two story American Foursquare was built in 1904 by John R. Posey. As is so typical with the Foursquare style, the house features a boxy mass with a recessed two story porch and a hip roofed dormer above. Slightly tapered box columns on elongated, paneled plinths support the porch, and the second story features a nice flat-sawn balustrade. One-over-one windows allow plenty of light into the interior, and a two story projecting bay anchors the center of the east elevation.
 
Old Dauphin Way Historic District
 
16 N. Ann Street - Willa D. Washington
This delightful Queen Anne cottage was built by Charles J. Mahler in 1902 as rental property. By the turn of the century, the Queen Anne style had already peaked, though some of Mobile's finest examples date from the century's first years. This one bears all the expected features associated with this high Victorian expression -- complex rooflines, staggered gables, a variety of siding treatments (horizontal, angled, vertical), a corner turret, corner brackets. turned posts and balustrade and multi-light window in the side gable.
 
1800 Dauphin Street - Rebecca Green and Richard Bailey
This stucco house was built in 1921 and occupies a prominent place on Dauphin Street. The original owner was Captain L. A. Scott, and C. L. Hutchisson, Sr. was the architect. The house represents a pleasant melding of Craftsman and Spanish Revival sensibilities in its red terra cotta roof, functional front stoop sheltered by a modest portico and spacious sleeping porch on the east elevation with casement windows. The lot is very fine and includes a garage and several palm trees.
 
60 Fearnway - Jep and Campbell Cobb
This stately Bungalow was erected in 1912 by J. Russell Hollinger, a clerk of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company. The house represents solid middle class comfort with its soaring gabled porch sporting exposed purlins and a horizontal gable window with flared box below. The dark Craftsman front door is flanked by a pair of 12/1 windows with stylized frames. The tasteful color scheme of olive body with white trim nicely accentuates the porch support columns, eave work, windows and the corbelled chimney shoulders. Altogether one of the finest Bungalows on Fearnway.
 
60 Monterey Street - Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Kingsmill
This large American Foursquare was constructed in 1912 on Monterey near Old Shell Road by Kirk Wilson, a Mobile realtor. The monumental paneled, boxed columns with capitals and bases more strongly evoke the Colonial Revival than the Foursquare, but the latter style was nothing if not adaptable. The side hall entrance features a beautiful doorway with fanlight and transoms and a sophisticated balcony distinguishes the second story. Exposed rafters define the wide eaves and a round top louvered vent punctuates the front elevation of the hip roof.