Spanish Revival Residences in Mobile Multiple Property Submission

The Spanish Revival Residences in Mobile Multiple Property Submission is a multiple property submission of buildings that were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places as some of the best remaining examples in Mobile, Alabama of houses built in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. It covers ten properties.[1][2]

Spanish Revival Residences in Mobile Multiple Property Submission
LocationMobile, Alabama
NRHP reference No.64500010

Although best known in California and Florida, the style came early to Mobile and was eagerly embraced. The Latin colonial history of the city, as well as its semi-tropical climate, are thought by architectural scholars to have been a factor in this. The George Fearn House was the first example in 1904, quickly followed by the grand Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Passenger Terminal in 1907. Government Street Methodist Church (1906-1917) was another elaborate example. These grand buildings spurred the building of Spanish Revival houses of varying degrees of sophistication in neighborhoods all around the rapidly growing city during the 1920s. The Mobile Country Club, completed in 1927, and some of its surrounding mansions was built in the style. The middle-class Florence Place subdivision was originally solely composed of Spanish Revival houses.[1][2]

Resource Name Also known as Coordinates City County Added Notes
Wade Askew House30°41′17″N 88°5′22″WMobileMobile CountyJuly 12, 1991House built in 1927.
George Fearn House30°40′42″N 88°4′57″WMobileMobile CountyJuly 12, 1991Mansion built in 1904.
George Levy House30°41′21″N 88°5′22″WMobileMobile CountyJuly 12, 1991House built in 1927.
Ernest Megginson House30°41′25″N 88°5′22″WMobileMobile CountyJuly 12, 1991House built in 1927.
James Arthur Morrison HouseJames and Nancy Walker House30°41′38″N 88°8′59″WMobileMobile CountyJuly 12, 1991Mansion built in 1926.
J. E. Paterson HouseEd and Betty Bush House30°41′22″N 88°5′20″WMobileMobile CountyJuly 12, 1991House built in 1929.
Robert L. Spotswood HouseJ. Clyde Glenn House30°41′33″N 88°9′1″WMobileMobile CountyJuly 12, 1991Mansion built in 1926.
Arthur VanderSys HouseJames Curtis Cloninger House30°41′22″N 88°5′23″WMobileMobile CountyJuly 12, 1991House built in 1926.
Jacob VanderSys HouseEva Tanner House30°41′23″N 88°5′22″WMobileMobile CountyJuly 12, 1991House built in 1927.
Joseph M. Walker HouseKay Lindsey Kimbrough House30°41′18″N 88°5′20″WMobileMobile CountyJuly 12, 1991House built in 1927.

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "Spanish Revival Residences in Mobile MPS". "National Register Information System". National Park System. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
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