White-Morrisette House at Newbern, AL (built 1890, currently the headquarters of Auburn Rural Studio)
This beautiful two-story Victorian-style home was completed in 1890 by Robert Allen White, a prominent merchant and banker in Newbern, AL. It has Victorian gables on the front and a long porch running the full length of the house. Along the edge of the porch is a total of nine small columns – five of [...]
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Hobson Bethel Methodist Church at Newbern, AL (built 1884)
The Newbern Methodist congregation selected the present site and completed this church in the fall of 1884. (Prior to this time, they held their services in the Presbyterian Church.) The lumber used in the construction of the church building is hand-hewn and mortised. The walnut alter rail in the church is hand-hewn. The pulpit and [...]
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Newbern Baptist Church at Newbern, AL (built 1849)
The Newbern Baptist Church was organized in 1848. The following year, the congregation built this two-story church. The upper floor has a large meeting room that was built for the Masons, many of whom belonged to the church. The four large Doric columns that support the roof over the front porch are made of solid [...]
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Newbern Presbyterian Church (1848) at Newbern AL
Newbern Presbyterian Church (Photograph courtesy US Library of Congress, photographer:Alex Bush, Date: July 31, 1936). This is the oldest churches in Newbern and one of the oldest Presbyterian Churches in this part of Alabama. The Newbern Presbyterian Church was organized in 1844 by North Carolinians who settled the area in the 1830s and the church [...]
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Auburn Rural Studio at Newbern, AL
Established in 1993 by architects Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee and D. K. Ruth, the Rural Studio is a part of Auburn University’s School of Architecture. The Rural Studio is located in rural west Alabama in the small town of Newbern in Hale County. Rural Studio students work directly with poor communities in west Alabama to improve [...]
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The Subrosa at Newbern, AL (Memorial to Samuel Mockbee)
Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee was an architect and a co-founder of Auburn University’s Rural Studio located at Newbern, AL. He created a program dedicated to building houses, community centers and other structures for the poverty-stricken communities in Hale County, Alabama, while introducing his students to the social responsibilities of their chosen profession. Samuel Mockbee was diagnosed [...]
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