Audubon Place Historic District

Audubon Place Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage
The entrance to Audubon Place on University Boulevard.
Location	1515-1707 (odd) University Blvd. & #8-37 Audubon Pl., Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Coordinates	33°12′38″N 87°33′32″W / 33.21056°N 87.55889°W / 33.21056; -87.55889
Area	5.4 acres (2.2 ha)
Architectural style	Bungalow, English Cottage, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	85001517[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	July 11, 1985
Designated ARLH	November 24, 1982[2]

The Audubon Place Historic District, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is a 5.4 acres (2.2 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1]

It includes all 37 homes on Audubon Place, a curved cul-de-sac street entered off University Blvd. in Tuscaloosa, as well as five properties going further down University Blvd. Specifically it includes numbers 1515 to 1707 on the odd-numbered side of University Blvd., and numbers 8 to 37 on Audubon Place. Just 32 of the buildings are deemed contributing, however.^[3] The entrance to the cul-de-sac is marked by "two massive concrete aggregate piers" and the street gradually climbs upward from there.^[3] The street forks, with the right fork going to a circular end, and the left exiting out onto a one-way street.^[4]

The neighborhood was designed by landscape architect Samuel Parsons Jr. (1844-1923).^[3] It was a development by developer Mims P. Jemison (c.1860-c.1915), "a prominent Tuscaloosa businessman who envisioned the subdivision as a haven for young middle class families, many of whom later achieved higher economic, professional and social status." The street was lined with oak trees planted by Mary Torrey Jemison.^[3]

• Caplewood Drive Historic District, a contemporary development, also NRHP-listed in Tuscaloosa

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