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1. 34_72_118-119 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 354 Morphy Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. Built c.1920s. Home of Mrs. Marie Louise Schaaf (Mrs. E. W. Schaaf), a masseuse who practiced out of Dr. Claude Godard's office, and later in her home. Mr. and Mrs. Schaaf came to Fairhope in 1913 (he was a native Frenchman and she a native Spaniard), where they farmed. They moved to town to be closer to her patients. Mr. and Mrs. Schaaf and...

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2. 34_72_120 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 357 Morphy Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. Built c.1911. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope HIstoric District." This was the home of Mrs. Mary Heath Lee, Librarian at Fairhope Public Library. Mrs. Lee died in 1961. The house has been used as a commercial building, and ...

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3. 34_72_121 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 358 Morphy Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. Most likely built in 1924 by Dyson & Company for Fred Ingersoll. Ingersoll only lived in the house for 2 years, because in 1926 he secured part of the Colony lot of Mrs. Mary Heath Lee across the street, and built 359 Morphy (Mrs. Lee lived at 357 Morphy). See 34_72_122 for related info. The W. H. Burmeister family lived in this house for...

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4. 34_72_122 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 359 Morphy Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. Built in 1926, per the February 4, 1926 Fairhope Courier, rather than the 1918 date seen in other documents. According to the Courier, Mr. Ingersoll had built a house in 1924 on the south side of the street at 358 Morphy Avenue. In 1926, he secured a portion of the FSTC lease (described in 34_72_120) of Mrs. Mary Heath Lee and built this...

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5. 34_72_123 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 12 North Section Street (also namved 12 Section Street North) in Fairhope, Alabama. This was the sales showroom and offices built c.1924 for Gaston Motor Company. J. E. Gaston started his business as Gaston's Auto Livery on Section Street in 1914 (see 34.72.100). By December 1916, Gaston was selling Fords at that location - as Gaston's Garage. Gaston became an authorized Ford deal...

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6. 34_72_124 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 11 North Section Street (11 Section Street North) and 13 North Section Street (13 Secton Street North) in Fairhope, Alabama. #11 is the first floor; #13 is the second floor. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope HIstoric District." This structure was built c.1940 as ...

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7. 34_72_125 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 15 North Section Street (sometimes incorrectly referred to as 15 Section Street North) in Fairhope, Avenue. Mr. William Ruffles, Sr. had been in the plumbing business as Ruffles & Son since about 1923, and in the 15 North Section Street location since 1927. In 1946, he had a new building erected on the site (on the north side of the Pitman Building) with a large showroom, offices and...

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8. 34_72_126 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 20 North Section Street (aka 20 Section Street North) in Fairhope, Alabama. This is the City of Fairhope Welcome Center built in 1993. It is on the site of the c.1928 Fairhope Public Utilities Building - usually called the Electric Power Plant or the Electri Power and Light Plant. About the time the 1928 Public Utilities Building was being constructed, the City was deciding whet...

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9. 34_72_127 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 21 North Section Street (aka 21 Section Street North) in Fairhope, Alabama. This building (c.1935) was connected with 34_72_125 - Ruffles and Son Plumbing along the back of the buildings. At the time of cataloging in May 2022, this was Master Joe's Restaurant. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this Distric...

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10. 34_72_128-129 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 23 North Section Street (23 Section Street North) in Fairhope, Alabama. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope HIstoric District." This is the Hampton Inn built in 2005. The original building was constructed in 1927 by Dyson and Sons contractors and was The Fairhope Nov...

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11. 34_72_130-134 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 24 North Section Street (24 Section Street North) in Fairhope, Alabama. This was City Hall for the mayor's office, police, jail, fire department and town council chambers, and then, for a time, for the Police Department alone. Built in 1928 by Forster & Sons of Clay City Tile with stucco in Spanish Mission style, this building stood vacant for about six years from 2001 until 2007...

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12. 34_72_135-136 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 29 North Section Street (29 Section Street North) in Fairhope, Alabama. This commercial building was constructed by Dyson and Company in 1940 and leased to nurseryman Robert Green, Sr. for The Fairhope Flower Shop. This location was Dr. Pierce Frederick's optometry practice from 1950 until the late 1990s. It is now a realtor's office. NOTE: In earlier days, this was more likely 27...

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13. 34_72_137 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 33 North Section Street (33 Section Street North) in Fairhope, Alabama. Built c. 1930 and used by various business. Information not available about early occupants, but in more recent times used by an attorney, and currently (2022) as a restaurant. Note: The Historic Sites Form reports that this building was the Fairhope Novelty Shoppe. Research by FSTC Archives is that the Fa...

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14. 34_72_138-139 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 39 North Section Street (39 Section Street North) in Fairhope, Alabama. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope HIstoric District." The building was built by Dyson contractors in 1945 for J. M. 'Jack' Ponder for his Ponder Company plumbing business. Mr. Ponder and his ...

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15. 34_72_141 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 14 South Section Street (14 Section Street South) in Fairhope, Alabama. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope Historic District." The New Sanitary Market (a meat market) opened for business in this location in December 1924 with an addition in 1926. C. C. Baldwin (Clayt...

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16. 34_72_142 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 18 South Section Street (18 Section Street South) in Fairhope, Alabama. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope Historic District." Built c.1940. This one-story commercial building housed sports-related businesses into the 1970s. These included the Sportsman's Store be...

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17. 34_72_143 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 19-21 South Section Street (19-21 Section Street South) in Fairhope, Alabama. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope Historic District." This commercial building c.1920 housed many business over the years, including Burke's (before it moved across the street in 1941), f...

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18. 34_72_144-145 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 24 South Section Street (24 Section Street South) in Fairhope, Alabama. Built in 1926 on the northwest corner of Section Street and De La Mare Avenue by Clayton C. Baldwin (C. C. Baldwin) with Forster and Sons as the contractors Greer's grocery store occupied the building, opening its Greer's #26 store in 1926. Baldwin expanded the building to the north in 1928, and in 1934, he bui...

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19. 34_72_146 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 31 South Section Street (31 Section Street South) in Fairhope, Alabama. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope Historic District." The Fairhope Coal and Supply Company was organized in 1924 (officers Marmaduke Dyson, J. E. *Eugene) Lawrence, Axil Johnson and others) from...

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20. 34_72_147-148 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 35 South Section Street (35 Section Street South) in Fairhope, Alabama. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope Historic District." This is a 1915 concrete building which the Southern Building and Material Company (Officers: Marmaduke Dyson, president; Eugene Lawrence, v...

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