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The house was later subdivided into three apartments. It was bought out of foreclosure in [[2014]] and renovated as a single-family home. | The house was later subdivided into three apartments. It was bought out of foreclosure in [[2014]] and renovated as a single-family home. | ||
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Revision as of 15:41, 12 June 2015
The Alexander Dearborn residence is a large home located at 1750 15th Avenue South, on the corner of 18th Street and in the Anderson Place Historic District of Southside. It was constructed between 1909 and 1911 by developer and builder Alexander R. Dearborn. His partner, D. F. Evans, collaborated on the construction.
The two-story house is topped by a large gable with a cross-gabled extension over a projecting center bay. The porch also has a central projecting gable over the front steps supported on stone piers. A shed-roofed veranda extends beyond the side of the house into a covered porch open on three sides.
Dearborn's daughter, Augusta was society editor for the Birmingham News and a close friend of author Margaret Mitchell. Mitchell came to Birmingham at Augusta's invitation in 1922, assisting with the News' society page and residing in the house's guest quarters. She married Red Upshaw that December and returned with him to Atlanta, where she joined the staff of the Atlanta Journal magazine.
The house was later subdivided into three apartments. It was bought out of foreclosure in 2014 and renovated as a single-family home.