Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
34_50_046 |
Object Name |
Photograph, Digital |
Description |
Photograph of the A. O. Berglin home in Fairhope, Alabama. This was located at the southeast corner of Church Street and Fairhope Avenue and built in 1901. The family's meat market "Berglin The Butcher" was on the bottom floor. The house was moved to the corner of Church Street and De La Mare (the southern corner of their FSTC lease) in 1916. Berglin got out of the meat business in 1905, and in 1908 started the Fairhope Creamery in the former meat market location. In 1909, he bought an ice plant, and installed it and the creamery on the bayfront just north of Wharf Hill. The business, Fairhope Ice and Creamery, was moved to downtown Fairhope in 1926 to the northwest corner of Bancroft Street and Fairhope Avenue when Berglin leased the lot and bought the improvements where the Farmers Cooperative Creamery had done business since 1922, This poor quality picture is included in these archives because of its importance to the pictoral history of downtown Fairhope. The picture was published in a Fairhope Courier article (December 29, 1993) about Fairhope First Families in anticipation of the upcoming Centennial celebration in 1994. From the Fairhope Public Library Collection and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. |
Search Terms |
Photographs Businesses Houses Downtown Fairhope Ice and Creamery Fairhope Public Library Collection Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company |
People |
Berglin, Adolph Oscar (1875-1952) |
Date |
1901 |
Collection |
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation |