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Burritt Museum
Front: Burritt Museum, Huntsville, Alabama
Back: Burritt Museum is located on top of Monte Sano Mountain and is one of the outstanding attractions in the area. -
Burritt Museum
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Monte Sand Mountain. Huntsville. Ala.
Former home of Dr W. H. Burritt, donated to city of Huntsville. Built in 1937 in unusual structure of Maltese Cross, and insulated with bales of straw. Situated on Round Top, highest point of 167 acre tract giving magnificent view of Huntsville and surrounding area. -
Burritt Museum
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This unique building it located on Round Top Mountain near Huntiville. Ala. This property was given to the city by Dr. Burritt, a world traveler whose collections of oddities can now be viewed by the public. Among the rarities are a bed owned by a King of Spain and a mantle of Chittem Wood. -
Parlor at Burritt Museum
Back: PARLOR AT BURRITT MUSEUM, Monte Sano Mountain, Huntiville. Ala.
Over Adams Mantle is shown oil portrait of donor, Dr. W. H. Burritt. Contents include imported lace curtains and drapes, original furniture such at old Steinwey piano, music box. and collection of Wedgwood plaques and statuary. -
Parlor at Burritt Museum
Back: BURRITT MUSEUM on Monte Sano Mountain, Huntsville. Alabama
Many of the furnishings of this formal parlor were collected by Dr. William Burritt during some of his numerous trips to foreign countries. His portrait hangs over the beautiful Adam Mantel which originally graced the parlor of the Burritt home place on Eustis Avenue in downtown Huntsville. -
Burritt Museum
Back: Burritt Museum, Atop Monte Sano, Huntsville, Alabama -
Smith-Williams Log House
Back: Smith-Williams Log House at Burritt on the Mountain - A Living Museum (1900). The Smith-Williams house originally stood on the eastern base of Monte Sano Mountain. It is a typical home of a subsistence farm family in the hills of North Alabama in 1900. -
Gardiner Cabin at Burritt on the Mountain
Back: Gardiner Cabin at Burritt on the Mountain - a Living Museum (1850). The Gardiner Cabin originally stood in southern Madison County near the Tennessee River. A small one-room cabin, it is typical of slave housing in the Tennessee Valley. -
Aerial view of Burritt on the Mountain
Back: Aerial view of Burritt on the Mountain - A Living Museum with Jones Valley in the background. -
Arch at Entrance to Burritt on the Mountain
Back: Arch at entrance to Burritt on the Mountain - A Living Museum, Built by Dr. William Henry Burritt as the entrance to his retirement estate completed in 1938.