Thursday, January 27, 2011

T-Town photo of the day: The Alston Building in downtown

Constructed in 1909, the Alston Building was Tuscaloosa's first skyscraper ever built. The seven-story building once held the designation as the tallest structure on a dirt street in the United States and was originally the tallest structure east of the Mississippi River - and even that was a creation to give the building more prominence.

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