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'Place in Peril’ gets help
Tuscaloosa News – July 18
…Slave labor built the house in 1837, and it was the center of what was then a plantation on the south border of a much smaller Tuscaloosa, said Robert Mellown, an art historian at the University of Alabama who has been involved with historic restoration for 30 years…is thought to have been designed by William Nichols, who was also the architect of the original buildings on the UA campus…