Cruse Alley, Twickenham
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Harvie Jones Architectural Collection
Twickenham Historic Preservation District: The First Twenty-Five Years
1972-1997, Huntsville, Alabama, History, Maps and Comparative Photographs
1972 Photographs - Carey Cooper; 1997 Photographs and Compilation - Harvie P. Jones, FAIA
The Architectural Collection of Harvie P. Jones, FAIA, Dept. of Archives/Special Collections, M. Louis Salmon Library, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL.
Cruse Alley, Twickenham
By Harvie P. Jones
The 1861 map and 1871 view shows only two outbuildings on Cruse Alley, both long-gone. The oldest house (No. 7) on Cruse Alley was once a simple concrete block small house of perhaps 1940-50 origin, later upgraded to its present attractive Colonial Cottage design. The oldest building on Cruse Alley is probably the small board-and-batten bam (now apartment) at No. 3, that was an outbuilding for the 1836 Govemor Bibb House on Williams Avenue. Its date is unknown but is probably twentieth century.
Cruse Alley is, with the exception of the barn, a Colonial Revival street of the last third of the twentieth century. No. 1 was built in the late 1960's, No. 8 in about 1985 and No. 10 in 1994-1995.
