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1994-2018 Places in Peril 23 Years of Preservation ALABAMA'S PLACES IN PERIL 1994 - 2017 Location Name Date Vicinity County Current Status Date Verified By Whom Alabama Historic Shipwrecks 1999 Multiple Alabama Coast Ellicott's Line Survey Mounds 2000 Multiple Ala-Florida Line John Slaton House 2000 Autaugaville Autauga Saved - moved to Prattville Old Pratt Gin Factory 2005 Prattville Autauga Downtown Fairhope 2003 Fairhope Baldwin Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay 1995 Montrose Area Baldwin Hamburg Building 2018 Foley Baldwin Malbis Plantation Historic District 2015 Daphne Baldwin Seymour Bluff Archealogical Site 2006 Gulf Shores Baldwin Bluff City Inn 1999 Eufaula Barbour Capt. Martin House 2005 Eufaula Barbour Grace Episcopal Church 2016 Clayton Barbour Moulthrop House 2002 Eufaula Barbour North Eufaula Avenue/US431 2014 Eufaula Barbour Vicksburg & Brunswick RR 1997 Eufaula Barbour Shorter Cemetery 2010 Eufaula Barbour Bibb County Jail 2007 Centreville Bibb Brierfield Furnace 1997 Brierfield Bibb Barclift Inn 2007 Blountsville Blount Copeland House 1997 Blountsville Blount Lost - razed in 2010 Bullock County Road 14 1998 Bullock Bullock Union Springs 1996 Union Springs Bullock Neuman-Wright-Dees House 2005 Greenville Butler Allen-Weathers House 2004 Oxford Calhoun Boiling Springs Archaeological Site 2011 Oxford Calhoun Saved Choccoloco Valley 2002 Chocolocco Calhoun City of Anniston 1996 Anniston Calhoun Davis Farm/Caver-Christian House 2005 Oxford Calhoun Lost - burned Downtown Anniston 2011 Anniston Calhoun Forney Hall 2015 Jacksonville Calhoun In-Play - C urrent status unknown. Send information to ATHP at [email protected] or call 205-652-3497. Empty Cell - No information. Page 1 Deadline for Information: October 1, 2013. 23 Years of Preservation ALABAMA'S PLACES IN PERIL 1994 - 2017 Location Name Date Vicinity County Current Status Date Verified By Whom Gateway to Anniston Building 2008 Anniston Calhoun Lost - razed Hobson City 2009 Hobson City Calhoun Houses of Noble Park 2006 Anniston Calhoun Saved - restored for re-adaptive uses Pelham Road 1996 JacksonvilleFort Calhoun Lost - to urban expansion Remington Hall 2012 McCellan/Anniston Calhoun Tallaseehatchee Creek Indian Site 1999 Oxford Calhoun Bethlehem Baptist Church 2008 Valley Chambers Fort Cusseta 2006 Cusseta Chambers Braswell Grist Mill 1998 Pleasant Gap Cherokee Aircraft Hangar 2007 Clanton Chilton Saved Cecil Cash House 1998 Maplesville area Chilton Chilton County Training School 2017 Clanton Chilton French-Rivers House 1994 Barlow Bend Clarke Lost - burned Talladega National Shoal Creek Baptist Church 2018 Forest Cleburne Governor Jim Folsom Birthplace 2008 Elba Coffee Saved Leighton Training School 2001 Leighton Colbert Locust Hill 2004 Tuscumbia Colbert Saved - acquired by Colbert County Historical Landmarks Foundation andSaved with Old Grace Episcopal Church 2013 Sheffield Colbert assistance of Historic Sheffield Commission is raising money to restore the building. In-Play - complex Preuit Oaks Plantation Complex/Gin 1994 Leighton Colbert Lost - gin building collapsed Steele-Armistead-McCrory house 2012 Tuscumbia Colbert The Oaks Plantation, Kitchen 2008 Leighton Colbert Lost - razed and logs transported to LaGrange, Georgia Conecuh County Courthouse 2001 Evergreen Conecuh Lost - razed Coosa County Farmers' Association Building 2010 Rockford Coosa Day's Gap Battlefield 2003 Battleground Area Cullman In-Play - C urrent status unknown. Send information to ATHP at [email protected] or call 205-652-3497. Empty Cell - No information. Page 2 Deadline for Information: October 1, 2013. 23 Years of Preservation ALABAMA'S PLACES IN PERIL 1994 - 2017 Location Name Date Vicinity County Current Status Date Verified By Whom Amelia Boynton House 2008 Selma Dallas Boynton House 2014 Selma Dallas East Selma Industrial Area 2003 Selma Dallas Lost - most of campus/structure(s) razed Green Street Baptist 2008 Selma Dallas Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Chruch 1998 Pleasant Hill Dallas Saved - restored Old Dallas Academy 1996 Selma Dallas Saved - repurposed Old YMCA Building 2004 Selma Dallas Plattenburg House 2005 Selma Dallas Save - moved and reassembled by students of the Auburn University School of St. Luke's Episcopal Church 1994 Martins Station Dallas Architecture, Rural Sudio students. New location Old Cahawba Archeological Park. 7/27/2013 AHC/F. Young Street Manual Training School 2002 Richmond Dallas Cricket Theater 2010 Collinsville Dekalb Manitou Cave of Alabama 2016 Fort Payne Dekalb Fusihatchee Creek Indian Archaelogical 1994 Montgomery Elmore Lost - destroyed by sand and gravel mining Hickory Ground 2000 Wetumpka Elmore Main Mill #1 2001 Tallassee Elmore Old Alabama Penitentiary 1995 Wetumpka Elmore Lost -razed Zeigler House 2006 Millbrook/Coosada Elmore Tallassee Mill Complex 1994 Tallassee Elmore-Tallap Tumlin Gap Trestle 2001 Attalla Etowah Lost Overton Farm 2017 Hodges Franklin Greene County Courthouse 1997 Eutaw Greene Saved - rehabilitated Bermuda Hill 2011 Prairieville Hale Saved Chantilly (Carson House) 1996 Newbern Hale Saved - under restoration Old Greensboro Hotel 2013 Greensboro Hale Saved The Old Hale County Jail 2018 Greensboro Hale In-Play - purchase and restoration under negotiation for re-adaptive use for housing Howell School 2012 Dothan Houston and retail space Braxton Bragg Comer Bridge 2015 Scottscboro Jackson Bridgeport 1997 Bridgeport Jackson Civil War Earthworks 2000 Bridgeport Jackson Saved Memphis & Charleston Freight Depot 1995 Scottsboro Jackson Saved - readapted in 2012 as Scottsboro Boys Museum In-Play - C urrent status unknown. Send information to ATHP at [email protected] or call 205-652-3497. Empty Cell - No information. Page 3 Deadline for Information: October 1, 2013. 23 Years of Preservation ALABAMA'S PLACES IN PERIL 1994 - 2017 Location Name Date Vicinity County Current Status Date Verified By Whom Finley Roundhouse 2017 Birmingham Jeffereson Arlington School 2003 Bessemer Jefferson Lost - razed in 2013 Birmingham Historic Schools 2009 Birmingham Jefferson Carraway House (Norwood) 2007 Birmingham Jefferson Saved - purchase and in process of restoration by Tom Creger and Ken Harris 7/27/2013 P. Hair Edgewood Community 2007 Birmingham Jefferson Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Birmingham Branch 2014 Birmingham Jefferson Greenwood Cemetery 1995 Birmingham Jefferson Saved - reclaimed Hassinger House 2003 Birmingham Jefferson Saved - restored as B&B, opened in 2013 Hillman Hospital 2000 Birmingham Jefferson Saved Saved - Birmingham Landmarks, Inc. capital campaign underway with $4.3M raised Lyric Theater 2009 Birmingham Jefferson for $7M goal for Phase I restoration. 7/27/2013 P. Hair Otto Marx House 2004 Birmingham Jefferson Lost - razed Peerless Saloon 2001 Birmingham Jefferson Saved - in 2007 re-adapted for use as Park Place K-8 School and JohnLost Herbert - razed Phillips High School 2006 Birmingham Jefferson Phillips Academy 7/27/2013 P. Hair Pinson School 1999 Pinson Jefferson In-Play - burned in 2011, transferred from the City of Birmingham to ATHP;Saved Powell School 2011 Birmingham Jefferson stablized/restoration workin progress, on the market for readaptive commercial use. 07/27/203 P. Hair Quinlan Castle 1998 Birmingham Jefferson Saved - purchased and restored for readaptive use by the Southern Research Institute 7/27/2013 AHC Revis House (Bethel Church 2016 Birmingham Jefferson Rosedale Park Historic District 2005 Homewood Jefferson Sadler House and Sadler Cemetery 2015 McCalla Jefferson Thomas Jefferson Hotel 2013 Birmingham Jefferson Ware Barn 2005 Clay Jefferson Lost - razed Windham Construction Company 2011 Birmingham Jefferson Bankhead House 2010 Sulligent Lamar Old Stagecoach Inn/Moore House 1995 Sulligent Lamar Saved - restored In-Play - C urrent status unknown. Send information to ATHP at [email protected] or call 205-652-3497. Empty Cell - No information. Page 4 Deadline for Information: October 1, 2013. 23 Years of Preservation ALABAMA'S PLACES IN PERIL 1994 - 2017 Location Name Date Vicinity County Current Status Date Verified By Whom Forks of Cypress Ruins 1995 Florence v. Lauderdale Saved - AHC-owned with local group Melton Hollow 1997 Wright Lauderdale St. Florian Community 1999 St. Florian Lauderdale Sweetwater House 2001 Florence Lauderdale Bankhead Garth-Shackelford House 2010 Courtland Lawrence Saved 1/12/2018 Brett Davis Cunningham-Bynum House 2003 Southern CourtlandLawrence Lawrence Lawrence County Log Houses 1999 County Lawrence Lost Auburn Depot 2010 Auburn Lee Frederick House 2001 Opelika Lee Saved - moved Ogletree-Wright-Ivey House 2009 Opelika Lee Salem-Shotwell Covered Bridge 1997 Salem Lee Lost - destroyed by storm Sunny Slope 2007 Auburn Lee Saved Whispering Oaks 2016 Opelika Lee Chapman Quarters 1999 Athens Limestone Lost - razed Fort Henderson Site/Trinity School 2012 Athens Limestone Scott Cottage 2005 Mooresville Limestone Village of Mooresville/Scott Cottage 2000 Mooresville Limestone First Missionary Baptist Church 2012 Hayneville Lowndes Lowndesboro Colored School 2008 Lowndesboro Lowndes Saved Old CME (Christian Methodist 1996 Lowndesboro Lowndes Saved - repurposed Atassi Creek Nation Site 1998 Macon Browns Department Store 1994 Tuskegee Macon Fort Davis Railroad Depot 2017 Fort Davis Macon Henderson Park Recreation Center 2017 Tuskegee Macon Johnston-Cartwright House 2004 Tuskegee Macon Varner House 2005 Tuskegee Macon Ditto's Landing 2001 Whitesburg Madison Saved Harris Hill Plantation House 2004 Huntsville Madison Saved Jere Clemens House 2002 Huntsville Madison Saved - moved Lowe Mills Village
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