Draft:Huntsville City Hall

How is it that the Huntsville City Hall "built in 1872" is in an 1869 photograph? A better photo of the 1960s city hall would be useful.

View of Jefferson Street and City Hall in 1869 next to the Huntsville Hotel (built 1859) at top
Huntsville's 1872 City Hall photographed in 1882
Huntsville's 1892 City Hall
View of Huntsville's Municipal Complex in 2006

Huntsville City Hall is in Huntsville, Alabama. In 1960s the Huntsville Muncipal Complex was built. In 2021 planning for a new municipal building across the street from the complex where a parking garage is located was announced.[1] Groundbreaking took place in 2022.[2][3] Goodwyn Mills Cawood designed the new city hall.[4]

To Do

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Expand LeRoy Pope Walker (intro in particular) and note that he served as president of the 1875 Alabama Constitutional Convention.[5]

Colonel D. S. Troy, C.S.A. state legislator. state senator American Bar Association (LeRoy Pope Walker as well)[6]

One of Troy's opinions. Notes his views on enfranchisement.[7] Presumbaly a different D. S. Troy a legislator in Washington died 1917[8]

Says Troy, Alabama was named in honor of his father Alexander Troy.[9]


Add Robert Reid (Alabama politician) to politicians listed at Robert Reid[10] Memorial Natatorium[11]

 
Natatorium
 
Luna Natatorium

Link Luna Park, Seattle to Luna Park


 

Oceanside Natatorium[12]


List of mayors of Montgomery, Alabama

 

This is an interesting photo that could be added to George Crook and perhaps elsewhere

William Wallace

Catharine Railway

References

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  1. ^ "New City Hall and parking garage coming to Huntsville". rocketcitynow.com. December 17, 2021.
  2. ^ Crane, Nolan (April 12, 2022). "Huntsville City Hall groundbreaking ceremony". www.waff.com.
  3. ^ "You are being redirected..." huntsvillebusinessjournal.com.
  4. ^ "Huntsville releases first look of new city hall". rocketcitynow.com. November 5, 2020.
  5. ^ Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Alabama: Assembled in the City of Mongtomery September 6th, 1875. W. W. Screws, State Printer. 1875.
  6. ^ "Proceedings of the Annual Meeting - Alabama State Bar Association". 1918.
  7. ^ "Report ... To Inquire ... Whether in and of the Elections in the State of Alabama in the Elections of 1874, 1875, and 1876 the Right of Male Inhabitants ... To Vote Had Been Denied or Abridged". 1877.
  8. ^ "Senate Journal of the Legislature of the State of Washington". 1917.
  9. ^ Project, Federal Writers' (31 October 2013). The WPA Guide to Alabama: The Camellia State. Trinity University Press. ISBN 9781595342010.
  10. ^ "Report ... To Inquire ... Whether in and of the Elections in the State of Alabama in the Elections of 1874, 1875, and 1876 the Right of Male Inhabitants ... To Vote Had Been Denied or Abridged". 1877.
  11. ^ Hawaii off the Beaten Path®: A Guide to Unique Places. Rowman & Littlefield. 2 March 2010. ISBN 9780762762446.
  12. ^ Popular Electricity and the World's Advance. Popular Electricity Publishing Company. 1913.

This draft is in progress as of May 12, 2023.