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2015
Preservation Lyceum Series
Lyceum - (li-se-am), a place for public lectures, debates, classes, concerts and entertainment.
Join the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation for the 2015 season of the Preservation Lyceum
Series, a set of weekend programs for preservation-minded individuals who want to know more
about, and visit, historic preservation projects in Alabama.
The 19th century Lyceum Movement that flourished in America provided hundreds of informal
gatherings for the purpose of improving the social and intellectual landscape of society. Characterized by
lectures and public discourse on a variety of topics and musical and theatrical performances in a retreat
environment, lyceums peaked during the Antebellum Era. With the exception of the New York Great
Lake’s Chautauqua Institute, best known for the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, few remnants of
this vibrant phenomenon remain on the national scene.
Drawing from the past, the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation offers the Preservation Lyceum
series to travel the highways, byways and crossroads of Alabama exploring, experiencing and engaging
in preservation.
SUMMER 2015 PRESERVATION LYCEUM WEEKEND
Tuscaloosa
Friday, July 10 – Saturday, July 11
Come along with the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation for a behind-the-scenes look at historic
Tuscaloosa, the fourth state capitol of Alabama. From unique, early 19th-century commercial and
government buildings to lavish mansions and significant African-American history, the Druid City has it
all for historic preservationists.
Cover photograph of Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion by Robin McDonald.
SUMMER PRESERVATION LYCEUM
Tuscaloosa
Sponsored by
The Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation, the Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion Foundation,
Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society, and MRS Consultants, Inc.
When
Friday, July 10 – Saturday, July 11
Where
Tuscaloosa
PROGRAM
PRE-EVENT
Thursday, July 9
5:15-6:45
LECTURE
Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion
1305 Greensboro Avenue
Lecture “Amelia Gayle Gorgas, 1826-1913” by Dr. Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins presented as part of the
Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society’s Sundown Lecture Series. Light refreshments will be served at 5:15
with the lecture beginning at 5:30. One of the TCPS’s members will be in character as Mrs. Gorgas before
the lecture. Lyceum participants will tour the Gorgas home on Saturday. Free for TCPS members; $5 for
non-members.
Friday Evening
5:00-6:00
CHECK-IN/RECEPTION
Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion
1305 Greensboro Avenue
Marvel at the most majestic historic house in Tuscaloosa while you sip a glass of wine and admire the
mansion’s silver. Built between 1859 and 1862 by Senator Robert Jemison, Jr., this home was designed by
architect John Stewart of Philadelphia. It was the first house in the city to have a fully-plumbed indoor
bathroom and it had its own gas plant for illumination. It is owned by the Tuscaloosa County Preservation
Society, whose offices are located here, and the Heritage Commission of Tuscaloosa.
6:15
Dinner on your own in Tuscaloosa’s wonderfully rejuvenated historic
downtown.
Saturday Morning
8:30-9:00
CHECK-IN AND WELCOME
Battle-Friedman House
1010 Greensboro Avenue
9:00-9:45
Welcome by Katherine Richter-Edge, Executive Director of the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society,
and tour of the Battle-Friedman House
10:00-10:45
Drish House
2300 17th Street
Today, this 1837 house is surrounded by modern development, but it was once the center of a large
plantation owned by Dr. John R. Drish, who added its distinctive Italianate features in the 1850’s. Ironically, the
home is well known outside of Tuscaloosa as the subject of a 1930’s Walker Evans photograph that depicted
the house when it was the “Tuscaloosa Wrecking Company.”The TCPS bought the structure in 2007 and
worked to stabilize the structure before selling it in 2014 to Nika McCool of Past Horizons, LLC., who has
recently restored the exterior of the building. Ian Crawford will lead the tour of this former Place in Peril.
11:00-11:30
Gorgas House
University of Alabama campus
The Gorgas House is one of only four remaining antebellum structures on the University of Alabama’s
historic campus. Designed by William Nichols and constructed in 1828 as a dining hall, it has also served as
a faculty residence, post office, and the home of seventh UA president, Josiah Gorgas, and his wife Amelia
Gayle Gorgas, who was a daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle and a celebrated librarian at the
university.
Saturday Afternoon
11:45-1:00
LUNCH
Sweet Home Food Bar
2218 University Blvd., Suite A
1:15-2:00
Murphy African-American Museum
2601 Paul W. Bryant Drive (10th Street)
The Murphy-Collins house is a lovely Craftsman bungalow built by Dr. Will J. Murphy,Tuscaloosa’s first
licensed African-American black mortician, using portions of the old state capitol building after it burned in
1923.The house now serves as a museum highlighting the lives of African-Americans in Tuscaloosa during the
early twentieth century.
2:00-2:30
First African Baptist Church
2621 Stillman Blvd. (9th Street)
Although its congregation was organized in 1866, the current church was built by its members in 1907 as a
replica of a church in Tuskegee. In 1964, Rev.T.Y. Rogers, Jr., led a successful campaign against segregation that
led to a federal court decision to ban discriminatory signs on public buildings in the city. Events that occurred
during a march from the church on June 9, 1964 became known as Bloody Tuesday. Background information
can be found at: http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al1.htm and firstafricanchurch.org
2:45-3:45
Capitol Park Historic District
Corner of 28th Avenue and 6th Street
Tuscaloosa was the capital of Alabama from 1826 to 1847 and the center of town was situated on a high
bluff above the Black Warrior River now known as the Capitol Park Historic District. Walk the stone
foundations of the old capitol building, which burned in 1923, and visit the Old Jail, once a Place in Peril
and now a multi-purpose facility owned by the Tuscaloosa County School Board.Tours will be led by Ian
Crawford and Robert Mellown.
3:45-4:15
Old Tavern
500 28th Avenue
If you’ve read the recently published journals of Sarah Haynesworth Gayle (UA Press 2013), then you’ll
want to visit the very building where she and Governor John Gayle lived when they first moved to
Tuscaloosa. The 1827 structure is a rare surviving example of an early hotel and the oldest commercial
building in town. Originally located on the Tuscaloosa stage coach route, the Old Tavern serves as a museum
of everyday 19th-century life while also boasting a few extraordinary pieces, such as the desk of William
Wyatt Bibb, Alabama’s first governor.
4:30-5:00
Queen City Pool and the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation
Museum
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6:00
Hors d’oeuvres at Five Bar
2324 6th St.
Cash Bar
OPTIONAL FRIDAY AND SUNDAY TOURING—SELF-GUIDED
Greenwood Cemetery
Corner of Stillman Boulevard (9th Street) and T Y. Rogers, Jr. Avenue (next to the First African Baptist
Church)
Stroll amongst the remarkable gravestones at this ca. 1821 cemetery, one of the oldest in Tuscaloosa.
University of Alabama Campus
University Boulevard, between Campus Drive West and Hackberry Lane
Historic buildings of special note: the President’s Mansion (1840s),Tuomey Hall (1880s) and Oliver-Barnard
House (1889) and the Round House (ca. 1860s) on the Quad, Woods Hall (1867-1868), Maxwell Hall
(1844), Foster Auditorium. Recommended guide: Robert Mellown’s The University of Alabama: A Guide to the
Campus, UA Press (1988)
Alabama Museum of Natural History
Smith Hall (1910), University of Alabama Campus
The museum is on 6th Avenue at the east end of the Quad but can only be accessed by the parking lot
behind the Geological Survey on Hackberry Lane. $2 adult admission.
Monday through Saturday, 10:00-4:30
205-348-7550
Paul W. Bryant Museum
300 Paul W. Bryant Drive
Adult admission $2
Open daily 9:00-4:00
1-866-772-2327
Tuscaloosa Museum of Art
Home of the Westervelt-Warner Collection
1400 Jack Warner Parkway NE
Tuesday-Saturday 10:00-6:00
Sunday 1:00-6:00
205-562-5280
tuscaloosamoa.org
Moundville Archaeological Park
634 Mound Park
Moundville, AL 35474
13 miles south of Tuscaloosa
moundville.ua.edu for admission information
Federal Courthouse Murals
2005 University Blvd.
Monday - Friday 8:00 - 4:30
Sixteen grand murals (14 feet by 9 feet) by Caleb O’Conner depicting Tuscaloosa history.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
When making hotel reservations, ask for the group rate for the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation.
Rates differ by accommodations.
Hampton Inn-University
600 Harper Lee Drive
Tuscaloosa, AL 35404
1-205-553-9800
Lyceum Rate: $119 per night for a room with two queen-sized beds. Rates include
continental breakfast.
Cut-off date for the Lyceum rate is JUNE 30.
PRESERVATION LYCEUM REGISTRATION
Summer, 2015 – Tuscaloosa
Lyceum Weekend packets with tour information will be available for pick-up on Friday afternoon during the
Reception or Saturday morning Check-In at Battle-Friedman House.
REGISTRATION FEE
Registration fee includes Friday and Saturday
receptions and Saturday lunch.
For ATHP Members
$75 per person
For Non-Members
$100 per person (includes one-year membership)
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To make reservations by phone, call the Alabama
Trust for Historic Preservation at 205-652-3497.
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Saturday Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres (not included in Lyceum registration fee.)
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TOTAL REGISTRATION FEE(S)
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Alabama Trust For Historic Preservation
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Endangered Properties Trust Fund
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Alice Bowsher Operating Reserve Fund
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If paying by check, make check payable to the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation.
Mail to: ATHP, UWA Station 45, Livingston, AL 35470.
If Payment by Credit Card, mail to the ATHP, UWA Station 45, Livingston, AL 35470 or call 205-652-3497.
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To make reservations by phone, call the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation at 205-652-3497.