Fairhope, Alabama
A. P. MINNICH HOUSE
(Updated with corrections.)
A familiar house on S. Section Street across from Greers grocery constructed by merchant A.P. Minnich about1912 that appears in many old city photos surrounded by orange/satsuma trees is now being demolished to make way for a new commercial mixed-use project. (video at bottom)
The fruit was killed by the big freeze of Winter, 1924.
It has been vacant for several years now, but was used as a lawyer's office for a while in the 1990s.
The property is owned by Patrick T. McDonald, according to online county land records -- and is zoned B-2.
The city council has a new ordinance prepared by the Historical Committee before it now to set up a framework so that more grants and tax breaks may be applied for by property owners for preservation, but has so-far failed to act in the face of the usual stiff opposition behind the scenes from the local realtor/development industry.
A. P. MINNICH HOUSE
(Updated with corrections.)
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A familiar house on S. Section Street across from Greers grocery constructed by merchant A.P. Minnich about1912 that appears in many old city photos surrounded by orange/satsuma trees is now being demolished to make way for a new commercial mixed-use project. (video at bottom)
The fruit was killed by the big freeze of Winter, 1924.
It has been vacant for several years now, but was used as a lawyer's office for a while in the 1990s.
The property is owned by Patrick T. McDonald, according to online county land records -- and is zoned B-2.
The city council has a new ordinance prepared by the Historical Committee before it now to set up a framework so that more grants and tax breaks may be applied for by property owners for preservation, but has so-far failed to act in the face of the usual stiff opposition behind the scenes from the local realtor/development industry.
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| ca. 1920 |
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