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COUNTER IN GENERAL BUSINESS ROOM - U.S. Custom House and Post Office, Royal and Saint Francis Streets, Mobile, Mobile County, AL
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Young, Ammi B
Leadbetter, Danville
Title
COUNTER IN GENERAL BUSINESS ROOM - U.S. Custom House and Post Office, Royal and Saint Francis Streets, Mobile, Mobile County, AL
Depicted place Alabama; Mobile County; Mobile
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Medium 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS ALA,49-MOBI,228-20
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  • Significance: Notable example of work of leading nineteenth-century Federal architect. 1853-56. Ammi B. Young, architect; Danville Leadbetter, superintendent of construction. Classical Revival. Ashlar over brick. 86'-4" (five bays) x 145'-10" (nine bays) with advanced three-bay central pavilion on each street facade, three stories. Shallow hipped roof, bracketed cornice, vermiculated ground floor and quoining, triple entrances on each facade enframed by architraves studded with paterae; three-bay balcony above resting on scrolled consoles. ... Demolished 1963.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-79
  • Survey number: HABS AL-830
  • Building/structure dates: 1856 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1963 Demolished
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/al0604.photos.004688p
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Object location30° 41′ 39.01″ N, 88° 02′ 35.02″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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