Fairhope Bayfront District
Roughly bounded by Blakeney, N. and S. Summit Sts., Fels Ave. and Mobile Bay, Fairhope, ALThe Fairhope Bayfront District is significant for its collection of architectural types and forms popular in the U. S. from 1894-1938 which were modified by the Single-Taxers to respond to Fairhope's egalitarian and resort environment. This environment stimulated the use of modest, practical building materials and celebrated the simple over the pretentious, creating in Fairhope's houses and frame cottages an overall character or "feel" missing from other towns of the same period.
Local significance of the district:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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