Pinehurst Historic District (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)


The Pinehurst Historic District in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a residential historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The listing included 17 contributing buildings and nine non-contributing ones.
It was developed as Tuscaloosa's first garden landscaped residential area, during 1908 to 1935. It was Tuscaloosa's first affluent housing development and includes homes designed by local architects C.W. Ayers and Harry Harring, and one by Birmingham architect William Welton. Features of the garden landscaped residential suburb movement exemplified here include: "a landscape design that relates to the
topography, natural plantings, curvilinear streets, lack of fences, and barriers to through traffic.
It includes 215 and 305 Seventeenth Ave., 1--28 Pinehurst Dr., and 6--9 N. Pinehurst Dr. in Tuscaloosa.
The contributing buildings are: