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 House 30°41′17″N 88°5′22″W / 30.68806°N 88.08944°W / 30.68806; -88.08944 (Wade Askew House) Mobile Mobile County July 12, 1991 House built in 1927.
George Fearn House 30°40′42″N 88°4′57″W / 30.67833°N 88.08250°W / 30.67833; -88.08250 (George Fearn House) Mobile Mobile County July 12, 1991 Mansion built in 1904.
George Levy House 30°41′21″N 88°5′22″W / 30.68917°N 88.08944°W / 30.68917; -88.08944 (George Levy House) Mobile Mobile County July 12, 1991 House built in 1927.
Ernest Megginson House 30°41′25″N 88°5′22″W / 30.69028°N 88.08944°W / 30.69028; -88.08944 (Ernest Megginson House) Mobile Mobile County July 12, 1991 House built in 1927.
James Arthur Morrison House James and Nancy Walker House 30°41′38″N 88°8′59″W / 30.69389°N 88.14972°W / 30.69389; -88.14972 (James Arthur Morrison House) Mobile Mobile County July 12, 1991 Mansion built in 1926.
J. E. Paterson House Ed and Betty Bush House 30°41′22″N 88°5′20″W / 30.68944°N 88.08889°W / 30.68944; -88.08889 (J. E. Paterson House) Mobile Mobile County July 12, 1991 House built in 1929.
Robert L. Spotswood House J. Clyde Glenn House 30°41′33″N 88°9′1″W / 30.69250°N 88.15028°W / 30.69250; -88.15028 (Robert L. Spotswood House) Mobile Mobile County July 12, 1991 Mansion built in 1926.
Arthur VanderSys House James Curtis Cloninger House 30°41′22″N 88°5′23″W / 30.68944°N 88.08972°W / 30.68944; -88.08972 (Arthur VanderSys House) Mobile Mobile County July 12, 1991 House built in 1926.
Jacob VanderSys House Eva Tanner House 30°41′23″N 88°5′22″W / 30.68972°N 88.08944°W / 30.68972; -88.08944 (Jacob VanderSys House) Mobile Mobile County July 12, 1991 House built in 1927.
Joseph M. Walker House Kay Lindsey Kimbrough House 30°41′18″N 88°5′20″W / 30.68833°N 88.08889°W / 30.68833; -88.08889 (Joseph M. Walker House) Mobile Mobile County July 12, 1991 House built in 1927.

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