Montgomery Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Alabama State Capitol

  Notice the capitol ahead — known as the First Confederate Capitol, though today it houses only the governor's office and a museum. It sits on Capitol Hill — originally Goat Hill — in Montgomery, and was declared a National Historic Landmark on December 19, 1960.

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  First White House of the Confederacy

  Here in Montgomery you face the First White House of the Confederacy, a large two-story wooden frame house. Built in 1835 in an Italianate style, this was the initial executive residence of President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis and his family during early 1861.

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  Civil Rights Memorial

  Maya Lin's low granite fountain, the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, lies just ahead of you. Water moves across the stone in a steady, healing sheet — the soothing effect that Lin intended — and the names of 41 people are inscribed here as martyrs who were killed in the civil rights movement.

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  Alabama Governor's Mansion

  Look toward the Alabama Governor's Mansion, official residence of the governor and family — currently home to Governor Kay Ivey. This is the home where the current Governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, lives.

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  The Legacy Museum

  Ahead of you is the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. This Montgomery museum openly displays the history of slavery and racism in America — including the enslavement of African-Americans, racial lynchings, segregation, and racial bias.

All 26 stops

• Alabama State Capitol (Capitol Hill)

  Notice the capitol ahead — known as the First Confederate Capitol, though today it houses only the governor's office and a museum.

• Statue of Jefferson Davis (Alabama State Capitol)

  Your eye finds this bronze figure of Jefferson Davis by Frederick Cleveland Hibbard, set outside the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.

• St. John's Episcopal Church (Montgomery)

  St. John's Episcopal Church, a Gothic Revival landmark, faces Madison Street ahead of you.

• Alabama Governor's Mansion (Montgomery)

  Look toward the Alabama Governor's Mansion, official residence of the governor and family — currently home to Governor Kay Ivey.

• First White House of the Confederacy (Montgomery)

  Here in Montgomery you face the First White House of the Confederacy, a large two-story wooden frame house.

• Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery)

  Your walk brings you to Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, a congregation whose story is braided through Montgomery's history.

• Dexter Parsonage Museum (Centennial Hill)

  A modest clapboard cottage waits for you in Centennial Hill, once a middle- and upper-class African-American neighborhood: the Dexter Parsonage Museum.

• Court Square Fountain (Court Square-Dexter Avenue Historic District)

  Your feet rest above the artesian well beneath this fountain in the Court Square–Dexter Avenue Historic District, built in 1885.

• Court Square Historic District (downtown Montgomery)

  Downtown Montgomery gathers around the Court Square Fountain, which puts you at the heart of the Court Square–Dexter Avenue Historic District, a 17.6-acre swath of…

• Freedom Rides Museum (Montgomery)

  At 210 South Court Street you have reached the Freedom Rides Museum, once the Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station.

• Rosa Parks Museum (Troy University at Montgomery)

  Troy University's satellite campus in Montgomery is where you find the Rosa Parks Museum.

• Old Alabama Town (historic downtown Montgomery)

  Six blocks of restored 19th- and 20th-century structures make up Old Alabama Town, and you are at the edge of a living record of the…

• Tulane Building (Montgomery)

  Victor Tulane's name still marks this historic building you have reached in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Steiner-Lobman and Teague Hardware Buildings (Montgomery)

  Dry goods and hardware once filled the Steiner–Lobman and Teague Hardware Buildings ahead of you in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Jefferson Davis Hotel (Montgomery)

  Named for Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, the former Jefferson Davis Hotel rises in front of you in Montgomery.

• Winter Building (Montgomery)

  Three stories tall, the Winter Building beside you began life as a bank branch with a telegraph office upstairs.

• Bell Building (downtown Montgomery)

  Since 1907, when local businessman Newton J. Bell built it, the Bell Building has anchored downtown Montgomery, and you are at its foot.

• Civil Rights Memorial (Montgomery)

  Maya Lin's low granite fountain, the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, lies just ahead of you.

• The Legacy Museum (Montgomery)

  Ahead of you is the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration.

• Mothers of Gynecology Monument (Montgomery)

  Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology Monument was unveiled at 17 Mildred Street on September 24, 2021, and you have reached it, near the National Memorial…

• Freedom Monument Sculpture Park (Alabama River)

  On 17 acres on the Alabama River, the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park is the most recent of the three Legacy sites developed by the Equal…

• Holt Street Baptist Church (Montgomery)

  Holt Street Baptist Church, a historic Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, sits on the corner ahead of you.

• Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638 (Cleveland Court)

  Rosa Parks once lived in Unit 634 of the Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638, the historic building you have come to in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Alabama State University Historic District (Alabama State University campus)

  Eighteen contributing buildings and one contributing site fill the 26-acre heart of campus you have entered, the Alabama State University Historic District.

• The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum (Cloverdale Historic District)

  Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald once called this large Craftsman-style house home, at 919 Felder Ave in the Cloverdale Historic District of Montgomery, Alabama, and you…

• Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (Montgomery)

  Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church rises in front of you.

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