Historic Mobile Preservation Society

03/27/2025

The Oakleigh House Museum will be open by appointment only until further notice. Appointments will be available at 11 am and 2 pm, but reservations in advance are required. Please call 251-432-1281 make a reservation for a tour.

02/03/2025

Temporarily, Oakleigh will be open for tours by appointment only.

Please call 251-533-7148 for a tour.

01/22/2025

Oakleigh was lovely in the snow, but for the safety of everyone, Oakleigh will be closed until next Tuesday, January 28. Stay safe and warm.

01/21/2025

Because of inclement weather (snow and ice are NOT Mobile things), Oakleigh will be closed today (Tuesday, January 21).

12/27/2024

12/27/2024

The Oakleigh House will be closed Friday December 27th.

12/14/2024

Today is the day! Come celebrate with us at the 2024 Holiday Homes Tour. Didn't get tickets in advance? You can purchase them at Historic Oakleigh for $40. See you soon!

12/06/2024

We're excited to share that local author Paula Webb will be selling her books at the market this year! Featuring over 25 vendors, food, and hot chocolate, our arts market will take place on the grounds of Oakleigh during the Holiday Homes Tour.

Paula has always enjoyed research, documenting her local history findings in 2016 in her first book, Mobile Under Siege: Surviving the Union Blockade. She has continued down this avenue of research with her book Such a Woman: The Life of Octavia Walton LeVert. Paula is a tenured librarian at the University of South Alabama. She earned a master's in library and information science from the University of Alabama.

Grab tickets here: www.historicmobile.org/events

12/03/2024

GivingTuesday is an opportunity for people around the world to use their individual power of generosity to support their communities. This , consider these four ways you can help support The Historic Mobile Preservation Society and The Historic Oakleigh House.

Visit www.historicmobile.com for more information!

11/30/2024

Don't forget to shop local tomorrow! Visit the Oakleigh Gift Shop for unique holiday gifts.

11/26/2024

Don't miss 907 Government St. on The Holiday Homes Tour this year! The original house was built by Thomas Bolling in 1854. It is a good example of the eclectic town house with the varying influences that dominated the romantic eras of the revivals. While Thomas Bolling seems to have built the house, William Sadler, a brick mason, improved the property. The house was then purchased by Stanley Bell Herndon in 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Herndon then remodeled the house, replacing the old flat roof with the present multi-gabled embellished Victorian roof. In addition to the roof, the Herndon’s connected the main house to a detached building in the back and added a second story over the addition.

Don't have your tickets yet? Grab them at www.historicmobile.org/events

11/24/2024

Also featured on the Holiday Homes Tour this year is the Government St. United Methodist Church. Originally constructed as a Gothic Revival building in 1890, the sanctuary underwent an expansion and change of style lead by architect George Rogers. Construction began in 1906 and was completed in 1917, "featuring not one but two stained-glass domes, plus the largest (and still beautifully functional) two-manual pipe organ. The priceless domes and sanctuary windows were created by the foremost medieval translucent art-glass architect, Harry Goodhue, of Boston. The façade of the building itself contains an elaborate panoply of Baroque styled early Christian symbols."

Don't have your tickets yet? Grab them at www.historicmobile.org/events

11/22/2024

Featured on the Holiday Homes Tour this year is the Roberts-Taylor-Isbell House. The house was built in 1837 by Dr. Willis Roberts, who was on the building committees of Barton Academy, the Old City Hospital at St. Anthony & Broad, and other antebellum buildings in Mobile. He was head doctor at the hospital. The architect of this house is unknown, but its design was clearly based on the work of Asher Benjamin. Roberts' son, banker Joel Abbot Roberts, enlarged the house in 1854 to pretty much the way it looks today. In 1897 the house was acquired by Commissioner & Mayor R. V. Taylor, whose grandchildren sold it to the current owners.

Don't have your tickets yet? Grab them at www.historicmobile.org/events

11/12/2024

Congratulations to Barton Academy for receiving the highest recognition in preservation from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The winners of this year’s Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Awards each demonstrate the power of persistence.

11/06/2024

Also receiving an award tomorrow night at Columns & Cocktails will be Kelly McKean, for her continued care of the Kate Shepard House. The historic house was built in 1897 by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin Shepard. This Queen Anne Victorian home was chosen from a catalog produced by the famous architect, George Franklin Barber. Rumor has it that it took thirteen railroad cars to deliver all of its components from Knoxville, Tennessee to Mobile, Alabama. Many of the original features remain in the house including chandeliers, fireplaces and mantles, stained glass windows and book cases.

Don't have Columns & Cocktails tickets yet? There's still time to get them! https://www.historicmobile.org/events