"Entrance to O'Shaughnessy Place -- Monte Sano."
The O'Shaughnessy Place, nicknamed "Castle Delight," was built in 1885 by Col. James and Lucy O'Shaughnessy. It was a two-story Queen Anne-style house with four chimneys, gas lights, water lines, and indoor plumbing. Col. O'Shaughnessy was a cotton and real estate broker, se...
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Photographs and documents Huntsville (Ala.) Madison County (Ala.) Houses Monte Sano Mountain (Huntsville, Ala.) |
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The O'Shaughnessy Place, nicknamed "Castle Delight," was built in 1885 by Col. James and Lucy O'Shaughnessy. It was a two-story Queen Anne-style house with four chimneys, gas lights, water lines, and indoor plumbing. Col. O'Shaughnessy was a cotton and real estate broker, seaport and railroad developer, and co-owner of the Huntsville Hotel, Huntsville Opera House, Hotel Monte Sano, and the Monte Sano Railway and Turnpike. The house burned in March 1890 and was demolished in the 1920s. |
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"Entrance to O'Shaughnessy Place -- Monte Sano."Collins, Ira F.Huntsville (Ala.)Madison County (Ala.)HousesMonte Sano Mountain (Huntsville, Ala.)The O'Shaughnessy Place, nicknamed "Castle Delight," was built in 1885 by Col. James and Lucy O'Shaughnessy. It was a two-story Queen Anne-style house with four chimneys, gas lights, water lines, and indoor plumbing. Col. O'Shaughnessy was a cotton and real estate broker, seaport and railroad developer, and co-owner of the Huntsville Hotel, Huntsville Opera House, Hotel Monte Sano, and the Monte Sano Railway and Turnpike. The house burned in March 1890 and was demolished in the 1920s.Card photographsStill Imageloc_mshc_000028http://libarchstor2.uah.edu/digitalcollections/items/show/39http://libarchstor2.uah.edu/digitalcollections/files/original/7/39/loc_mshc_0000028_web.pdfMonte Sano Historical CollectionBox 4, Folder 30University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabamaenloc_mshc_2018This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections. |
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"Entrance to O'Shaughnessy Place -- Monte Sano." |
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