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Monterey Place

Coordinates: 30°41′4″N 88°4′26″W / 30.68444°N 88.07389°W / 30.68444; -88.07389
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Monterey Place
The house in 2023
Monterey Place is located in Mobile, Alabama
Monterey Place
Monterey Place is located in Alabama
Monterey Place
Monterey Place is located in the United States
Monterey Place
Location1552 Monterey Place
Mobile, Alabama
Coordinates30°41′4″N 88°4′26″W / 30.68444°N 88.07389°W / 30.68444; -88.07389
Arealess than one acre
Built1897
ArchitectGeorge Franklin Barber
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No.84000680[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 5, 1984

Monterey Place, best known as the Shepard House, is a historic residence in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The house was designed by architect George Franklin Barber in 1897 for Charles Martin Shepard, the general passenger agent for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in Mobile. Shepard's daughters, Kate and Isabel, began to use the house as a boarding school in 1910.[2]

The house features elaborate Queen Anne details, eleven fireplaces, and several stained glass windows. The slightly later neighborhood surrounding the mansion, as well as the street, are also named Monterey Place. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1984.[1] The house was opened as a bed and breakfast inn about 2002. In February 2008, the house and current owners were filmed for an episode of Home & Garden Television's If Walls Could Talk.[3]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "The Kate Shepard House Bed and Breakfast". Bed and Breakfast Inns Online. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
  3. ^ "TV show films episode Mobile at bed and breakfast". al.com. Retrieved March 11, 2008.