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of Alabama, though, is Montgomery).

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constitution was also convened here.

All the while up to the Civil War

(1861-1865) and beyond, many

buildings came up here - each

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past a few of them:

Gideon Blackburn House, the house

of the pastor responsible for bringing

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area, originally dates back to 1818,

one and a half year before Alabama

became a state. In its reincarnation

in 1913, it is now a glorious example

of Colonial Revival and Craftsman

Style. Its boxy gable-roofed form, its

two-storey portico and the porch

balustrade are colonial elements,

while wide eaves, heavy brick piers,

and the use of inset panels of stucco

and colored diamond-pattern ceramic

tiles are the Craftsman elements.

The 1822 structure of the

First Presbyterian Church of

Alabama was replaced with

this characteristic brick Gothic

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steeple, the tallest in Huntsville,

in a storm in 1878.

Weeden House (1819), now

turned into a museum, is a

treasure trove of paintings done

by Maria Howard Weeden. These

paintings are so realistic you

could easily mistake them for

photographs.

Church of the Nativity was

modelled on the English parish

churches of the Middle Ages. Its

brick Gothic Revival building

prominently displays ‘Reverence

My Sanctuary’ – the reason for

a Union soldier to disobey the

orders of using this church as a

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Gideon Blackburn House - the house of the pastor responsible for

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