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Miller Harrison Laseter Hou.JPG
This 2-story house is in the shape of a cross with 3 entrances and 3 porches. Originally the house was facing west with an avenue of Oak trees leading to it from Queen City Avenue. The house was probably built by William Miller in the late 1850's.…

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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…

Cedarwood home with Buck Whatley (1).jpg
The Cedarwood House was built in 1818 by Joseph Blodgett Stickney. This house represents a typical Alabama house of the early nineteenth century with steeply pitched gable roof additions and flanking vernacular Greek Revival wings of New England…

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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…

Masonic Hall.jpg
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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Eugene Smith House.jpg
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 Jemison Home, also known as the Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion, at 1305 Greensboro Avenue was built between 1859 and 1861 by one of Tuscaloosa's most prominent figures, Robert Jemison Jr., a plantation owner. The house was built of materials that…

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The two-story Searcy House was built in 1904 by George Searcy, a Tuscaloosa banker and businessman. It was sold to Tuscaloosa County in 1925 for $35,000. The building was used for both a public library and the administrative offices of the Tuscaloosa…

University Club.tif
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 Mobile to Tuscaloosa. The house went through many owners in the 1800s, one of which was Arthur P.…
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