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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Merrimack Mill was a mill that sponsored a number of things and created a booming industry for the town. Later it opened up the Joe S. Bradley school, and the mill was eventually turned into Huntsville park!
Big Spring Park is a Park located at the heart of Huntsville Alabama. Ever since the construction of the park was completed in 1830 it has been a place for all ages to spend their time.
Cunningham Hall, the college women’s residence on the Oakwood campus, is named in Eugenia I. Cunningham’s honor. Mrs. Eugenia Isabella Cunningham, who served on the staff of Oakwood College and was widely known as Mother Cunningham, died on June 20, 1963, at the Riverside Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee.
Morton Hall, located on 301 sparkman drive northwest, is the hall right next to the Franks dorms and houses most of the language arts and other humanity subjects in uah. It is one of the oldest buildings on UAH campus which was first created in 1961.
