This is the president's house of a major southern university. It was built in the 1830s — mighty impressive, isn't it? Where is it?
Antebellum College Building Trivia
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It looks like the president's home in Tuscaloosa. I am relying on my memory going back 14 years. My problem is I recall that home as surrounded by many trees.
Could be the President's home at the Univ of S. Carolina.
Bill is right: it is the president's mansion at the University of Alabama. President Landon Garland's push for the school to adopt the military system turned the mansion into a strategic target, and Union troops almost burned it down.
Bill is right: it is the president's mansion at the University of Alabama. President Landon Garland's push for the school to adopt the military system turned it into a strategic target, and Union troops almost burned it down.
Bill's right — it's the president's mansion at the University of Alabama. Of course he had an inside knowledge, because he visited there a while back. South Carolina makes sense, too — looks very South Carolina, doesn't it? The president who built it, Basil Manly, came to Tuscaloosa from South Carolina (though he was born just down the road from me, in Chatham County, North Carolina).