| 词条 | Protestant Children's Home |
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| name = Protestant Children's Home | nrhp_type = nrhp | image = Protestant Children's Home Sept 2012 02.jpg | caption = The building in September 2012 | location= 911 Dauphin Street Mobile, Alabama | coordinates = {{coord|30|41|14|N|88|3|20|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Alabama#USA | built = 1845 | architect = Henry Moffatt | architecture = Late Federal | added = June 18, 1973 | area = {{convert|2|acre}} | governing_body = Private | refnum = 73000364[1] }} The Protestant Children's Home, also known as the Protestant Orphans' Asylum, is a historic orphanage building in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1973.[1] In 2015 the building was leased to the Infant Mystics society which began using it as a meeting lodge, renaming the place Cotton Hall.[2] HistoryThe Protestant Children's Home was built for the Protestant Orphan Asylum Society, established on December 2, 1839 by women of various Protestant denominations for the care of Protestant children without parents.[3][4] The yellow fever epidemics of 1837 and 1839 had created the need for an organization to care for the many orphaned children left afterward. Mobile during this time was a predominantly Roman Catholic city, with a Catholic orphanage and other support organizations already functional.[4] Originally accepting children up to ten years old, the Protestant Orphan Asylum Society later accepted girls up to 18 years old and boys up to 14 years old.[3] DesignDesigned by Henry Moffatt, a Philadelphia architect, the cornerstone for the orphanage was laid on July 4, 1845.[3][5] The three-story brick structure is designed in a Late Federal style.[5] Built on a central hall plan, the main block features two primary floors above a full-height ground floor.[5] The front facade is five bays wide, with a two-story cast iron portico centered on the middle three bays. The upper tier of the portico features an elaborate ironwork balustrade and latticework.[5] Minor alterations were made to the building during the late 19th century, the rear portion was expanded in 1924, and a full-scale renovation was completed in 1950.[5] References{{commons category|Protestant Children's Home (Mobile, Alabama)}}1. ^1 {{NRISref|version=2010a|dateform=mdy}} {{NRHP in Mobile, Alabama}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/01/new_life_for_historic_orphanag.html|title=New life for historic orphanage: 1845 downtown property will become 'Cotton Hall'|access-date=17 April 2017}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web |title=Protestant Orphans' Asylum, 911 Dauphin Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/al/al0500/al0542/data/al0542data.pdf |publisher=Library of Congress |work=Historic American Buildings Survey, Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey |accessdate=October 2, 2009}} 4. ^1 {{cite book |title=Mobile: The New History of Alabama's First City |last=Thomason |first=Michael |year=2001 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |location=Tuscaloosa |isbn=978-0-8173-1065-3 |page=84 }} 5. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book |title=The Alabama Catalog: A Guide to the Early Architecture of the State |last=Gamble |first=Robert |year=1987 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |location=Tuscaloosa |isbn=978-0-8173-0148-4 |page=310 }} 3 : National Register of Historic Places in Mobile, Alabama|Buildings and structures in Mobile, Alabama|Residential buildings completed in 1845 |
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