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Image Title: President's Mansion, University Of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2010

Creator: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer

Date: 2010 April 17.

Notes: The President's Mansion is one of the few buildings that survived the burning of the campus in 1865 because of Mrs. Louisa Frances Garland, wife of the 3rd University president Landon C. Garland. Upon learning that the campus was burning, she left Bryce Hospital where everyone had taken shelter and raced back to the mansion to defend her property. She stopped the Federal Army from destroying the mansion, and the young union soldiers even worked to put out the fire they had started at the place. The mansion, which has undergone a number of restorations, assumed its current appearance in 1908. The president's quarters are on the third floor, while the bottom two floors are used for gatherings and receptions.

Subjects: America
President's Mansion
United States--Alabama--Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama

Original Media: Photograph

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