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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIAF_the-little-theater-clark-memorial-theatre-virginia-samford-theatre_Birmingham-AL.html
Built in 1937 by Gen. Louis Verdier Clark from a design by architect William T. Warren as a community playhouse for cultural activities. It was recognized as one of the best of its kind in the nation. Mrs. Vassar Allen - first president, Bernard S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI6I_the-coe-house_Birmingham-AL.html
John Valentine Coe, president of Birmingham Lumber and Coal Company, commissioned this two-story Craftsman-Tudor Revival style house in 1908. Coe, who had previously been a lumber merchant in Selma, moved his family and business to Birmingham at t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI02_independent-presbyterian-church_Birmingham-AL.html
The church was founded when the Rev. Henry M. Edmonds and many members of a Southern Presbyterian congregation withdrew from the local Presbytery. During the first seven years it met in Temple Emanu-El synagogue and held evening services in the Ly…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHWU_five-points-south_Birmingham-AL.html
This neighborhoods developed in the 1880s as one of Birmingham's first streetcar suburbs. It was the Town of Highlands from 1887 to 1893, when it became part of the City of Birmingham. The heart of the neighborhood was Five Points Circle, a major …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRB_jordan-home_Birmingham-AL.html
Dr. Mortimer Harvie Jordan and his wife, Florence E. Mudd, constructed their home between 1906 and 1908. After service in the Confederate army, Jordan studied medicine in Cincinnati and New York (under Alabama's famous gynecologist, Dr. J. Marion …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHR9_donnelly-house_Birmingham-AL.html
This neoclassical structure was built in 1905 for James W. Donnelly, "the father of the Birmingham Library System."
Donnelly moved to Birmingham from his native Cincinnati, Ohio after retiring from Proctor and Gamble. A much respected manufact…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHGO_the-iron-man-vulcan_Birmingham-AL.html
The giant, cast iron statue you see towering above you is Vulcan, the Roman god of metalwork and the forge. The 56-foot tall statue was commissioned by Birmingham leaders to represent their new, growing city at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Aft…