Protestant Children's Home
| Protestant Children's Home | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The building in September 2012 |
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| location | 911 Dauphin Street Mobile , Alabama , USA |
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| Coordinates | 30 ° 41 '14 " N , 88 ° 3' 20" W | ||
| surface | 2 acres | ||
| Built | 1845 | ||
| Architectural style | Federal style | ||
| NRHP number | 73000364 | ||
| The NRHP added | June 18, 1973 | ||
The Protestant Children's Home , also known as the Protestant Orphans' Asylum , is a historic orphanage in Mobile , Alabama . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1973 . In 2015 the building was leased to the Infants Mystic Society , which has since used it as a conference box under the name Cotton Hall .
history
The orphanage was founded on December 2, 1839 by women of different Protestant denominations for the Protestant Orphan Asylum Society to care for Protestant orphans. After the yellow fever epidemics of 1837 and 1839, many children were left without parents. A Catholic orphanage and other organizations were already operating in the then mostly Catholic city of Mobile. The Protestant Orphan Asylum Society originally looked after children up to 10 years of age, but later took in girls up to 18 years of age and boys up to 14 years of age.
architecture
The orphanage was designed by the Philadelphia architect Henry Moffatt and built on July 4, 1845. The three-story stone building was built on a central hall plan in the later Federal Style . The ground floor is at floor level and is surmounted by two additional floors. The front facade extends over five bays and is decorated with a two-storey cast iron portico that stands in front of the three central bays. The upper floor of the portico has an ornate baluster and latticework. Small changes were made to the building at the end of the 19th century. The rear was extended in 1924 and the building was completely renovated in 1950.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Protestant Children's Home. In: NPGallery Digital Asset Management System. National Park Service , accessed January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ New life for historic orphanage: 1845 downtown property will become 'Cotton Hall'. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Protestant Orphans' Asylum, 911 Dauphin Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL. In: Historic American Buildings Survey, Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey. Library of Congress , accessed October 2, 2009 .
- ^ A b Michael Thomason: Mobile: The New History of Alabama's First City . University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 2001, ISBN 978-0-8173-1065-3 , pp. 84 (English).
- ^ A b c d e Robert Gamble: The Alabama Catalog: A Guide to the Early Architecture of the State . University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 1987, ISBN 978-0-8173-0148-4 , pp. 310 (English).