| Summary: | Government Street, Mobile, Alabama, looking east toward the river. The Benz courthouse is on the left. It was Mobile's fourth courthouse and stood from 1889 to 1957. Its ornate statuary would fall victim to the hurricanes that periodically visit the city. It was erected at a cost of $50,000, and featured a four-columned Ionic portico, a denticulated gable, classical pilasters, a full entablature, ninety-four-foot towers, a one-hundred-and-eighty-six-foot clock tower, and statuary. The statue of the woman holding the flame can now be seen in the atrium of the Museum of Mobile. Also shown on the left is the grocery concern of the Farley Brothers.
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