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The Old Buck Boarding House, located at 1816 Broad Street (now University Boulevard) in Tuscaloosa just west of Queen City Avenue, was built around 1820. Ownership of the house changed many times over the years, but the Buck family owned it for many…

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A photograph of the Prince-Thomas house built in 1855 that was the meeting place for the University Masonic Club during the early 20th century.

Information from the book Tuscaloosa by Amalia K. Amaki and Katherine R. Mauter published as part of…

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A photograph of the University Club when it was the private home of Lebron and Minnie Deal.

The University Club, sometimes referred to as the "Governor's Mansion", was built in 1834 by Captain James Dearing who piloted the first steamboat from…

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A photograph of the Masonic Club House in the snow storm of December 1929. The building is also known as the Prince-Thomas house built in 1855. It was the meeting place for the University Masonic Club during the early 20th century.

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The home of Eugene Allen Smith was on the campus of the University of Alabama. After Smith died, the house was used as a fraternity house and was razed in 1949 for the construction of Gallalee Hall, the physic building.

Smith was professor of…

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The house known as the Wallace-Ozment House was built on Greensboro Avenue in 1830 by Dr. John Wallace. The house was a raised cottage with the first floor of brick and the second of wood. In 1870, William Henry and Elizabeth Ann Jenkins Hays…

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In 1962, this landmark antebellum home on Greensboro Avenue was razed. The house, known as the deGraffenried House (or the Hester- deGraffenried House), was constructed in 1845 as a wedding gift.

Located at 1217 Greensboro Avenue on the northwest…

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The historic Kennedy House near the Bibb County Courthouse in Centreville, was built in 1837 as a stagecoach stop and hotel called the Eagle Tavern. Union officers took over the hotel during the Civil War and federal troops remained in the building…

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The Cochrane House and 20 acres of land on 15th Street in West Tuscaloosa were purchased as a new home for Stillman Institute in 1898. Founded as Tuscaloosa Institute, the name was changed in honor of its founder, Dr. Charles A. Stillman. It was…

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This house, built in 1849 and demolished in 1907, was located on the site the Tuscaloosa County Court House that was completed in 1908. There was electricity at this time; see the pole in front of the house. However, the streets are still…

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