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Tuscaloosa Public Library

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The Tuscaloosa Public Library is a city/county agency in the city of Tuscaloosa, serving a population of over 184,035 in Tuscaloosa County in the state of Alabama, United States. The library has 58,037 registered patrons that use the library on a regular basis. There are currently over 225,000 items (books, DVDs, CDs, etc.) cataloged in the system. The library has three service outlets: the Main Library, the Brown Branch and the Weaver-Bolden Branch.

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Tuscaloosa Public Library
Queen City Avenue, Tuscaloosa

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Pinehurst Historic District (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)

The Pinehurst Historic District in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a residential historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The listing included 17 contributing buildings and nine non-contributing ones.It was developed as Tuscaloosa's first garden landscaped residential area, during 1908 to 1935. It was Tuscaloosa's first affluent housing development and includes homes designed by local architects C.W. Ayers and Harry Harring, and one by Birmingham architect William Welton. Features of the garden landscaped residential suburb movement exemplified here include: "a landscape design that relates to the topography, natural plantings, curvilinear streets (represented here by a cul-de-sac), lack of fences, and barriers to through traffic.It includes 215 and 305 Seventeenth Ave., 1--28 Pinehurst Dr., and 6--9 N. Pinehurst Dr. in Tuscaloosa.The contributing buildings are: Fitts House (1915), 1 Pinehurst Dr.; two-story brick Prairie School home of lumberman and banker William F. Fitts Foster House (1919), 2 Pinehurst Dr.; two-story Tudor Revival Alston House (1916), 3 Pinehurst Dr.; two-story stone home of Alston family, local bankers Foster House (1927), 5 Pinehurst Dr.; two-story stucco, gable roofed house with cross gable projecting end bay Blair House (1910), 7 Pinehurst Dr.; two-story stone and stucco, gable roof, with one-story pedimented portico, home of Frank Blair, an "original Pinehurst financier". Kay House (1909), 9 Pinehurst Dr.; two-story brick home of Edgar Kay, Dean of School of Engineering, University of Alabama 15 Pinehurst Dr. (1910); two-story stone house with Prairie School elements and 1967 addition, home of Thoe Klitske, head of the University's art department 16 Pinehurst Dr. (1915); two story stucco house 17 Pinehurst Dr. (1922); designed by architect William L. Welton, two-story English bond brick house, with one-story portico over a recessed fanlighted entry. Bingham House (1919), 18 Pinehurst Dr.; Tudor Revival 19 Pinehurst Dr. (1918); designed by C. M. Ayres, Jr., two-story brick and frame house with English Cottage style influence. Goldstein House (1933), 24 Pinehurst Dr.; Spanish Revival house designed by architect C. M. Ayres, Jr. 26 Pinehurst Dr. (1922); two-story frame and stucco house with cross gable dormers over end bays. 25 Pinehurst Dr. (c.1925); English Cottage, one-story brick house with cross gable projecting end bay, arched hood over entry. 305 17th Ave. (1926); two-story brick house with one-story cross gable porch across front facade of center block 27 Pinehurst (1932); Tudor Revival brick and stucco house 28 Pinehurst (1908); Shingle Style two-story wood shingle duplex, home of owner of Pizitz Department stores.

Caplewood Drive Historic District

Caplewood Drive Historic District, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is a residential historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It included 37 contributing buildings out of a total of about 45 buildings, on 11 acres (4.5 ha).The district runs along the long narrow lane of Caplewood Drive, originally known as Caplewood Terrace, south to its intersection with University Boulevard in Tuscaloosa. It is between downtown Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama campus. Specifically it includes 1418 University Blvd. and 21–27; 301–329; 400–430; 1309, 1315, 1409, 1411, 1415, 1416 Caplewood Drive.It is a set of modest bungalows and cottages built primarily during the 1920s and 1930s by local builders, using common building materials and designs which happen to achieve a kind of unity.The street was developed by J. D. Caples, Sr. (1860-1934) in 1922 along a creek and a natural ravine. Low areas were filled by dirt excavated in the construction of the NRHP-listed City National Bank, and sewers and water pipes were installed by manual labor. Caples paved the street and planted trees. Caples himself built five or six of the homes; his son-in-law B.D. Sumner built three; only one is known to be designed by an architect, being the one at #33 designed by Birmingham architect George P. Turner. It includes one or more Craftsman bungalows, as well as mission/Spanish revival and English Cottage styles.