Sunnyside Hotel
a.k.a. McLennan House
14469 Oak St., Magnolia Springs, ALThe Sunnyside Hotel is significant under Criterion A - Entertainment/Recreation-as an intact and rare Baldwin
County example of a small resort hotel. Though south Baldwin County has been a popular resort area since the
turn of the century, there are few surviving historic hotels. During the 1920s, a peak decade for the resort
and vacation industry in the area, there were only five hotels in all of Baldwin County. Of these five hotels, two survive in the neighboring town of Fairhope in addition to the Sunnyside in Magnolia Springs. With its spacious wrap-around porch enhanced by turned posts and balusters, wall dormers, steeply pitched roof, exterior and interior door transoms, and magnificent curly pine beaded board interior, the Sunnyside hotel stands as an important survivor of Baldwin County's early 20th-century resort years.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.