Rosedale Historic District (Homewood, Alabama)

	Rosedale Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Roughly bounded by 25th Court S, Central Ave., 27th Court S., Loveless/BM Montgomery St., Homewood, Alabama
Coordinates	33°29′07″N 86°47′39″W / 33.48528°N 86.79417°WCoordinates: 33°29′07″N 86°47′39″W / 33.48528°N 86.79417°W
Area	250 acres (1.0 km2)
Built by	Morris, Eugene
Architectural style	Late Victorian, Late Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	04000236
Added to NRHP	March 31, 2004

The Rosedale Historic District in Homewood, Alabama is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The listing included 143 contributing buildings on 250 acres (1.0 km²).^[1] Another part of the Rosedale Neighborhood is included in the NRHP as .

It is a hilly residential neighborhood, located somewhat inaccessibly over Red Mountain ridge, from Birmingham, Alabama. Developers could not develop the property for white families, but the lack of transportation options did not dissuade black families, with less choices, from choosing to live there. It grew as a working and middle class African American neighborhood. It was surrounded by white suburbs and not allowed to expand.

It has many of "the best examples of working and middle class architecture, including residential/domestic, commercial, and religious, built c. late 1880s-1953 by and for African Americans in Jefferson County and the State of Alabama. Vernacular residential styles include many shotgun houses, particularly the concentration that remains on Loveless Street as well as a variety of bungalows and duplexes."^[2]

The history of the Rosedale Neighborhood has been documented by several local history projects by students and faculty from Samford University.^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ Pamela Sterne King; Christy Anderson (December 25, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Rosedale Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved July 19, 2019. With accompanying 19 photos
^ Flynt, Sean (April 2, 2020). "History Students Help Preserve Memories of Rosedale Community". Samford University. Retrieved 2020-07-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.

[nrhpdoc-2] Pamela Sterne King; Christy Anderson (December 25, 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Rosedale Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved July 19, 2019. With accompanying 19 photos

[3] Flynt, Sean (April 2, 2020). "History Students Help Preserve Memories of Rosedale Community". Samford University. Retrieved 2020-07-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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