Old Dauphin Way Historic District - History

History

The Old Dauphin Way District is situated on portions of what was once the Price and Espejo tracts, early Spanish land grants to the west of colonial Mobile. The area began to first be developed during the 1830s and 1840s. This early development mostly comprised residential estates along the roads leading from downtown to the village of Spring Hill. These included Spring Hill Road (now Spring Hill Avenue), Spring Hill Shell Road (now Old Shell Road), and Dauphin Way (now Dauphin Street). The district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1984.

Examples of architecture within the Old Dauphin Way Historic District
Shepard House at 1552 Monterey Place, also originally known as Monterey Place, built in the Queen Anne-style in 1898.
"Canebreak" at 1406 Brown Street, built in the Colonial Revival-style in 1930 to replace an earlier antebellum house that burned.
R.C. Macy House at 1569 Dauphin Street, built in the Gothic Revival style in 1867.
Mission Revival-style house built in 1905 at 1802 Old Government Street.
Dorgan Cottage, a Creole cottage built in 1860 at 22 South Lafayette Street.
Cameron-Sanders House, built in the Queen Anne-style in 1894 at 1001 Dauphin Street.

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