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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The Beirne Home is located at 300 Williams Ave SE Huntsville. It was built by the second Governor of the state of Alabama and is now a private residence owned by the Bentley family.
Moran Hall, located at Campus Rd, Huntsville, AL, was built in the 1930's. The building houses faculty offices and classrooms for the Department of History and Political Science and the Department of English and Foreign Languages.
