Student Projects

Advertisement for Grand Cleaners.

Grand Cleaners, located at 801 Franklin St. SE in Huntsville, was owned and operated by Shelby and Lou Johnson. The Grand Cleaners building opened in 1947 as a state-of-the-art drycleaning facility. Sterling Travel Agency now occupies the building.

View of the Fourth Courthouse

View of the entrance of the St. Mary's Church of the Visitation on Jefferson St. N.

Entrance to St. Mary's Church of the Visitation, located at 222 Jefferson St. N in Huntsville, was initially founded by Father Jeremiah Trecy in 1861 as a place of worship for the Catholics in Huntsville. It is still running today as the oldest Catholic church in Huntsville.

View of the Carnegie Library building from Buchanan Way

Carnegie Hall, located at Buchanan Way, funded by Andrew Carnegie, built in 1906, the building has been used as a campus library

A historical photo of the Beirne Library

A recent photo of the Beirne House library

A historical photo of the Beirne house interior staircase

View of Wisdom Falls in Monte Sano State Park. The photo was taken near the base of the waterfall.

Wisdom Falls is located near what used to be the Monte Sano Hotel but is now in Monte Sano State Park. The Hotel opened in 1887, closed in 1900, and 1944 the Hotel was torn down. The falls can be found along the South Plateau loop, near SE Nolen Avenue.

View of current First Baptist Church Huntsville from Governors Dr SW.

The congregation of First Baptist Church Huntsville moved into this new (and current as of Oct 2024) church building in 1963 but it wasn’t completed until 1966. Since then, renovations and expansions have been made to the church.

View of the Confederate Soldier Monument from within the Confederate soldiers section of Maple Hill Cemetery.

The Confederate Soldier Monument, originally located on the west side of the Madison County courthouse, was moved to Maple Hill Cemetery after Black Lives Matter protests. It was built to commemorate fallen Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.

View of the First National Bank building from West side Sq.

View of Bibb Graves left side

Bibb Graves Hall, located along Buchanan way at A&M University, where the Green Bottom Inn once was.

View of the Conrad Swanson Observatory from the front

The Conrad Swanson Observatory, located at 100 Observatory Dr SE in Huntsville, is owned and operated by the Von Braun Astronomical Society. The Swanson Observatory was built in 1956 and has had many additions and changes to it.

View of Drake Blvd and soccer fields

The Big Spring

Part of the Big Spring Park looking out over a fountain and a water way, with fields and trees in the background.

View of Parkway Place Mall from the upper deck.

Parkway Place Mall, found at 2801 Memorial Pkwy SW, Huntsville, AL, is a two-story enclosed mall. The modern building was opened in 2002, but the mall first opened in 1957 as an open-air strip mall named Parkway Shopping Center. This picture shows it from the outside upper parking deck, with one of its roadside signs in the top left.

St. Mary of the Visitation Catholic Church in downtown Huntsville.

St. Mary of the Visitation Catholic Church was built in 1877 and has gradually expanded over the years. The church still stands today and has an associated school. The surrounding area has gone from a relatively empty small town to the bustling downtown Huntsville it is today.

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