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34_66_001_016 - Documents
Newspaper clippings, articles (inlcuding one published in the New York Times) and photographs about Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart) known as the "Hermit of Montrose." Includes an interview with Fairhope, Alabama author Sonny Brewer who in 2005 wrote a fictionalized account of Stuart titled "The Poet of Tolstoy Park." From the Fairhope Public Library Collection and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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37_1_015 - Poem
Poem dated August 1, 1930 and dedicated to H. J. S. (Henry Stuart, Henry James Stuart) titled "The Sage of Tolstoy Park. The author is the mysterious "Miss V. V." This cataloger believes her to be Vivian Howard (aka Lady Vivian), wife of Milford W. Howard. The Howards visited Fairhope in 1929 when Mr. Howard was writing travel articles for the Birmingham News-Age Herald paper, but cannot confirm this. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corpora...
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37_1_016 - Newspaper Article
"Conversely Speaking" column from the Eastern Shore Courier dated November 1, 1979, written by Converse Harwell. Titled "A Life Enriched," these are Harwell's memories about Henry Stuart, who was also known as The Hermit of Montrose and Ye Olde Weaver. Henry James Stuart's life is fictionalized in the 2005 book "The Poet of Tolstoy Park" by Sonny Brewer. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, clipping is courtsey of Kenneth ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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37_1_016 - Newspaper Article
"Conversely Speaking" column from the Eastern Shore Courier dated November 1, 1979, written by Converse Harwell. Titled "A Life Enriched," these are Harwell's memories about Henry Stuart, who was also known as The Hermit of Montrose and Ye Olde Weaver. Henry James Stuart's life is fictionalized in the 2005 book "The Poet of Tolstoy Park" by Sonny Brewer. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, clipping is courtsey of Kenneth ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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37_1_017 - Newspaper Article
Newspaper article, date and paper name not available, by Wendy Bernhardt titled "The Eastern Shore Once Had Its Own Hermit" about Henry Stuart. Stuart was known "The Hermit" of Montrose, Alabama. The article includes interviews with Converse Harwell and George Fuller, Jr. Henry James Stuart's life was fictionalized in author Sonny Brwer's 2005 novel titled "The Poet of Tolstoy Park." From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, cour...
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37_1_018 - Newspaper Article
Newspaper article from the Baldwin Register dated June 30, 1999 about the addition by the Baldwin County Historical Development Commission of the "Hermit House" and other buildings to the Baldwin County Historic Register. The "Hermit House" (called the Beehive Building in this article) was the structure built in the Montrose, Alabama by Henry Stuart. Henry James Stuart's life was fictionalized by author Sonny Brewer wrote in his 2005 n...
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37_1_020_p1-6 - Newspaper Article
Newspaper article from the Birmingham News (Alabama) dated October 3, 2004 by Kathy Kemp, photos by Bernard Troncale. Article is titled "The Poet Within" about author Sonny Brewer and the novel he wrote titled "The Poet of Tolstoy Park." The book is inspired by the life of Henry James Stuart, "The Hermit," who built and lived in the dome-shaped Hermit House in Montrose, Alabama from the mid-1920s until the mid 1940s. Brewer gives information ...
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37_1_021 - Newspaper Article
Article from the Mobile Press Register and al.com dated July 7, 2019, titled "Remembering the hermit and his hut" by Kelly Kazek. The article is about Henry Stuart who constructed and built the dome-shaped Round House (Hermit House) in 1925-1926, and his life in the Montrose area of Fairhope. Author Sonny Brewer, who wrote a novel about Henry James Stuart's life titled "The Poet of Tolstoy Park" (2005) is interviewed for the article. ...
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37_1_022 - Newspaper Article
Newspaper article from the Mobile Press Register and al.com dated May 4, 2014 titled "Outside the Box, Architecture: Touring Alabama's Wild Polygons" by Kelly Kazek. The article includes information of the "Hermit House" in the Montrose area of Fairhope, Alabama. The structure was built in the mid-1920s by Henry Stuart. Known as "The Hermit," Henry James Stuart inspired author Sonny Brewer to write "The Poet of Tolstoy Park," which was publi...
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37_1_023_p1-5 - Newspaper Article
Newspaper article dated March 3, 1929 by Milford W. Howard and published in The Birmingham News-Age Herald. The copy is in poor condition and difficult to read. (Note that one page appears twice with different tones in the hope it can be read.) The article is titled "Vagabond Discovers a Modern Thoreau Living in Baldwin County" about Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart) "The Hermit" of Montrose. Howard (1862-1937) was a lawyer, U.S. Congressma...
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37_1_025 - Newspaper Article
Newspaper article in the Mobile Press Register, no date, by Virginia Greer titled "The Hermit of Montrose" about Henry Stuart who built a concrete domed Round House in 1925-1926 and lived there untill 1944. The article provides details about Henry James Stuart's life and interviews by people who knew him. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, couresy of Kenneth E. Niemeyer.
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37_1_027 - Newspaper Article
Newspaper article dated May 6, 2007 titled "Saving the Hermit Hut" by reporter Guy Busby and published in the Baldwin Register.. The article includes information about efforts to protect the historic domed structure built by Henry Stuart in 1925-1926. Includes interviews with Sonny Brewer, Ken Niemeyer and others involved with the project, plus details about Henry James Stuart's life. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, co...
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39_1_001 - Poster
Architectural drawing by C. A. Wolcott, dated 2005, of the Henry Stuart Cottage, Tolstoy Park, Montrose, Alabama. Mr. Wolcott dedicated this to Sonny Brewer, author of the Stuart-inspired novel "The Poet of Tolstoy Park," and Kenneth E. Niemeyer, who has preserved the house. The drawing shows details about Stuart's Round House (Hermit House) and information about how it was constructed. An excerpt from the 1930 poem "The Sage of Tolstoy Park"...
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39_16_001 - Article
Article titled "Memories of the Round House" by Jerry B. Goss dated June 25, 2025. Goss is the grandson of William J. Herring and Sadie Ray Harris Herring. Between 1953-1955, the Herrings owned six acres in Montrose, Alabama. Their land had been called Tolstoy Park by an earlier owner, Henry James Stuart, who built a concrete and brick domed house there. In his article, Mr. Goss writes of his memories of the Round House where his grandpa...
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40_38_001 - Poster
"Henry Stuart Cottage, Tolstoy Park, Montrose Alabama" poster by C. M Walcott dated 2005. Mr. Walcott, an architect, created this architectural and informational poster when the 2005 novel "The Poet of Tolstoy Park" by Sonny Brewer was published. Walcott included drawings of Henry Stuart's Round House and details of its construction, biographical information about Stuart and Brewer, quotes from Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pascal and Black Elk, and a...
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40_57_081-083 - Article
Article dated 1996 by Sonny Brewer titled "Coming Full Circle" which appeared in the Red Bluff Review. Brewer introduces the reader to Henry Stuart, the "Hermit" of Montrose, a weaver who left Idaho in 1923 and moved to the land he named Tolstoy Park in Montrose. Nine years later, in 2005, Brewer's novel about Henry James Stuart titled "The Poet of Tolstoy Park" was published. The book heightened interest in Stuart, so much so that, through...
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FMH_0061 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of Henry Stuart (aka The Hermit") sitting on the ground near Montrose, Alabama. Stuart's life was fictionalized in a 2005 book by Fairhope, Alabama author Sonny Brewer titled "The Poet of Tolstoy Park." Stuart's house still stands and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Other images of Henry James Stuart are in the FSTC Online Archives. Use keyword "Henry Stuart" to access. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporati...
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FMH_0229 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of Henry Stuart (1858-1946) standing with an unidentified visitor outside his Round House (Hermit House) in Montrose, Alabama, near Fairhope, Alabama. Stuart's life was fictionalized in author Sonny Brewer's 2005 novel titled "The Poet of Tolstoy Park." Henry James Stuart came to the area for health reasons in 1923 and lived here until 1944. His Hermit House still stands today, and has been visited by thousands over the years. F...
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FMH_0355 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of Henry Stuart (aka "The Hermit"). Stuart lived in a domed hut in the Montrose area near Fairhope from 1923 to 1944. His life is fictionalized in the book "Poet of Tolstoy Park" by Sonny Brewer (2005). For more iinformation Henry James Stuart in the Online Archives, use keywords "Henry Stuart." From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.
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FMH_0973 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated March, 1927, of Emma Mann (Mrs. T. E. Mann) and her granddaughter, Bonnie Schermerhorn (Holt). They are visiting Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart), the "Hermit" of Montrose (also known as Ye Olde Weaver) at Tolstoy Park in Montrose, Alabama. Mrs. Mann's husband, T. E. Mann, was the son of Shuah S. Mann, one of Fairhope's founders and a member of the two-man Locating Committee which found the site for the new Colony of Fairho...
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