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Akron Boys & Girls Club Complex at Akron, AL (designed & built by Rural Studio students)

Most of Akron’s adults commute to Tuscaloosa or Greensboro for work which leaves the children to entertain and look after themselves for an extended period of time every day. Auburn University’s Rural Studio volunteered to design and build a Boys and G …

Akron Presbyterian Church at Akron, AL (completed 1922)

The Akron Presbyterian Church was organized on July 6, 1919. The meeting was at the Akron Methodist Church which is where the Presbyterians met until their first church as built. In 1920, the Presbyterians started a building fund for their church. Thei …

Tanglewood located near Akron, AL (built 1859)

Tanglewood is a historic plantation house near Akron, Alabama. The Greek Revival cottage was built in 1859 by Page Harris, on land that he had purchased in 1824. It was given to the University of Alabama as a memorial to Nicholene Bishop in 1949 and th …