File:Cover - Woodward House Site, 401 Altamont Road, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL HAER AL-140 (sheet 1 of 3).tif

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Cover - Woodward House Site, 401 Altamont Road, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
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Anderson, Richard K. Jr.

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Title
Cover - Woodward House Site, 401 Altamont Road, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Depicted place Alabama; Jefferson County; Birmingham
Date 1998
date QS:P571,+1998-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 34 x 44 in. (E size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER AL-140 (sheet 1 of 3)
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  • Significance: Allen Harvey ("Rick") Woodward and his wife Annie Hill Jemison acquired the 10-acre estate as their family homeplace. Woodward was Chairman of the Board of Birmingham's Woodward Iron Company, a consistently profitable producer of foundry iron. His wife was a sister to Robert Jemison, Jr., a farsighted Birmingham developer for whose firm Boston landscape planner George Miller designed the Altamont Parkway (today's Altamont Road) atop Red Mountain in 1911. The developer's generous allocation of land for the parkway provided the community a scenic drive overlooking the city and access to the private estate sites atop the mountain's crest. Originally, a public road also crossed the southern flank of Red Mountain through the Woodward estate and provided superb views of Shades Valley and its former red ore mining sites. The original 10-acre lot that Annie Woodward purchased in 1913 had been mined under leases that extended to 1873. Robinson Iron Company, a local contractor, operated the Kewanee Red Ore Mine here until 1907. Working until 1920, Birmingham Ore & Mining Company mined the Civil War era Helen Bess Mine site, to the southeast of the Jemison lot. Construction of the residence, designed by California architect Reginald Johnson, was completed in 1924. In this year, the Woodwards acquired 16.85 acres of the Kewanee site to preserve their southern views. Several years earlier at the height of home building atop Red Mountain, Robert Jemison, Jr. deeded a strip of land to the the north of Altamont Parkway, just below the Woodward estate, to the City of Birmingham as Altamont Park, thus protecting city views from the parkway and from the estate. Two years later, Robert and Virginia Jemison gave an 8.45 acre site adjoining the Woodward estate to his sister. This knoll where Jemison had planned to build his own house remains undeveloped and was known as "Martee's Knoll." In 1970, Woodward family members, including Martee Woodward Webb, gave the entire estate to the Trustees of the University of Alabama for "purposes which are consistent with the dignity and tradition of this family estate and which will benefit all humanity through health science and education." The President of the University of Alabama at Birmingham currently resides at the estate.
  • Survey number: HAER AL-140
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/al1231.sheet.00001a
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Object location33° 31′ 14.02″ N, 86° 48′ 09″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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