Alabama Mineral Exposition Building

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The Exposition Building was a temporary structure erected in Capitol Park in the 1870s to display samples of minerals extracted from throughout the Birmingham District. For part of 1886 the building housed students from the Powell School while a new building was constructed for them.

References

  • Cruikshank, George M. (1920) History of Birmingham and Its Environs (2 vol.) Chicago: Lewis Publishing.