Mabson Hotel
The Mabson Hotel was a five-story brick and stone-clad hotel located on the northeast corner of 3rd Avenue North and 22nd Street, across 22nd Street from St Paul's Cathedral.
It was constructed in the 1890s, and in a Richardsonian Romanesque style with large rusticated arches of iron ore at the ground floor and brick with projecting sills and recessed arches above. The large arches were filled with triple-arched windows while narrower arches marked the clippped corner of the building. The deep cornice was surmounted by a slate-faced mansard roof punctuated by piers carrying the structural frame through the roofline.
The hotel was purchased by Thomas Mabson of Montgomery in 1913. He operated it until his death in 1920. His family continued to run it as a hotel and rooming house until it was finally demolished in the 1950s. The site of the former hotel is now a parking lot from which a "Uniform House of Dixie" painted sign is prominently visible.
References
- Bennett, James R. (2008) Historic Birmingham and Jefferson County: An Illustrated History. San Antonio, Texas: Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Society/Historical Publishing Network. ISBN 9781893619838