Places to see at Auburn, Alabama
Best Places to visit in Auburn, Alabama - Best Things to do in Auburn, AL
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Old Main and Church Street Historic District | 0.17 | 7 |
Historic, Historical Places, Urban Environment, Gardens And Parks, Cultural, Interesting Places, Historic Districts Church Street Historic District may refer to:
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Auburn University Chapel | 0.35 | 7 |
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Other Churches The Auburn University Chapel is the second-oldest building and oldest building in its original location on the campus of Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. " |
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Auburn University Historic District | 0.41 | 7 |
Historic, Historical Places, Urban Environment, Gardens And Parks, Cultural, Interesting Places, Historic Districts The Auburn University Historic District comprises the historic core of Auburn University in Alabama. The 14.5-acre (5.9\u00a0ha) district includes buildings built between 1846 and 1951, with a consistent red brick material palette. Buildings in the district include Samford Hall (1888), The Lathe (1860s), Langdon Hall (1846), the Music Building (1887-1888), Broun Engineering Hall (1906-1910), Mary E. Martin Hall (1908), the Music Annex or Power Plant (1905), the early 20th-century Langdon Shops, and Biggin Hall (1951). The Auburn University Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1976. " |
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Cater Hall | 0.5 | 7 |
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures Katharine Cooper Cater Hall, also known as the Old President's Mansion or the Social Center, is a structure on the National Register of Historic Places on the campus of Auburn University, in Auburn, Alabama. Designed by Joseph Hudnut and built for $17,000, Cater Hall was constructed in 1915 as the residence for the president of Auburn University (then the Alabama Polytechnic Institute). In 1938, a new president's home was built, and the structure became the social center for the new Quad dorms when they were built to the south of the mansion in 1940. In the late 1970s, the building was renovated to contain administrative offices and today houses Auburn University's educational support services divisions. " |
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Pebble Hill | 0.54 | 7 |
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures Pebble Hill, also known as the Scott-Yarbrough House, is an antebellum cottage in Auburn, Alabama listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It currently serves as the location of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. " |
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Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church | 0.6 | 7 |
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Other Churches Ebenezer Baptist Church is a megachurch church located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention and American Baptist Churches USA. It was the church where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was co-pastor from 1960 until his assassination in 1968, the location of the funerals of both Dr. King and congressman John Lewis, and the church for which United States Senator Raphael Warnock has been pastor since 2005. It is located in the historic area now designated as the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park. " |
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Auburn City Hall | 0.76 | 7 |
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures Auburn City Hall in Auburn, Alabama, built in 1933, is the city hall of Auburn, Alabama. It was originally constructed as a post office in 1933, and, like many post offices constructed during the Great Depression, the building has a \"starved classical\" design typical of federal architecture, with symmetrical style and pointed pediments and elements of colonial revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the U.S. Post Office in 1983. " |
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Old Rotation | 1.18 | 7 |
Other, Unclassified Objects, Interesting Places, Historic Object The Old Rotation is a soil fertility experiment on the Auburn University campus in Auburn, Alabama. The Old Rotation experiment, which started in 1896, is the third-oldest ongoing field crop experiment in the United States and the oldest continuous cotton experiment in the world. It was the first experiment to show that a cotton/legume crop rotation would allow soil to support a cotton crop indefinitely. The Old Rotation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. " |
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Cullars Rotation | 1.47 | 7 |
Other, Unclassified Objects, Interesting Places, Historic Object The Cullars Rotation is a soil fertility experiment on the Auburn University campus in Auburn, Alabama and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Cullars Rotation experiment, which started in 1911, is the oldest ongoing cotton fertility experiment in the United States, the oldest soil fertility experiment in the Southern United States, and the second oldest continuous cotton experiment in the world. " |
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Felton Little Park | 0.22 | 3 |
Urban Environment, Gardens And Parks, Cultural, Natural, Interesting Places, Nature Reserves, Other Nature Conservation Areas Felton Little Park (originally Auburn City Park) is a municipal park in Auburn, Alabama, United States. Felton Little Park is the oldest park in Auburn. From 1949 until 1968, the park was the home stadium of the Auburn High School Tigers football team, and from 1949 through 1967, the Auburn High School baseball team. Today, Felton Little Park has three softball fields for youth leagues. The park is named for Felton Little, an Auburn city councilman who donated the land for the park. " |
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WEGL-FM (Auburn) | 0.57 | 3 |
Architecture, Transmitter Towers, Towers, Interesting Places WEGL 91.1 FM (91.1 FM) is a Class A, non-commercial, FM, College radio station located on the campus of Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. The station's programming is broadcast at 1,800 watts from a tower situated on Auburn University's campus. WEGL's broadcast listening area includes the Alabama counties of Lee, Chambers, Macon, Russell, Tallapoosa, and Muscogee County, Georgia. WEGL streams its broadcasts over the internet through its website. The bulk of funding for the operation of WEGL 91 is allocated by Auburn University's Student Government Association and comes directly from Auburn's students' Student Activity Fees. WEGL's all-volunteer DJ staff includes various members of the Auburn University student, faculty, and staff populations. " |
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Julie Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art | 1.53 | 3 |
Cultural, Museums, Interesting Places, Art Galleries The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, colloquially \"the Met\", is the largest art museum in the Americas. In 2022 it welcomed 3,208,832 visitors, ranking it eighth in the list of most-visited art museums in the world, and the second-most visited art museum in the United States. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. The first portion of the approximately 2-million-square-foot (190,000\u00a0m2) building was built in 1880. A much smaller second location, The\u00a0Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European Old Masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries. " |
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Davis Arboretum | 1.06 | 2 |
Urban Environment, Gardens And Parks, Cultural, Interesting Places The University of California, Davis Arboretum (UC Davis Arboretum) is an approximately 100-acre (0.40\u00a0km2) arboretum along the banks of the old north channel of Putah Creek on the south side of the University of California, Davis campus in unincorporated Yolo County, California, in the United States. The arboretum was founded in 1936. It is free to visit and the gardens are open 24 hours a day every day of the year; visitor parking is free Saturdays and Sundays and $10 per car every other day. The Arboretum contains 3.5 miles (5.6\u00a0km) paved path loop for pedestrians, joggers, and cyclists. The collection includes some \"22,000 trees and plants adapted to a Mediterranean climate.\" The collection may be searched through the Arbortetum's online database, which includes detailed information about the plants and geographic information system data linked to plant records. The Arboretum is an important source of information on horticulture in California's Central Valley. The arboretum is used for research both by UC Davis faculty and students and by others. The arboretum also supports teaching at UC Davis, with courses in many different disciplines using the arboretum each year. " |
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Auburn First Baptist Church | 0.08 | 1 |
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places The First Baptist Church is one of six National Historic Landmarks in Columbus, Indiana. It was designed by distinguished architect Harry Weese; construction was completed in 1965. Since completion, few alterations have been made and the building has retained its integrity. It was one of the first church designs to integrate Modern movement architecture and a non-traditional church plan. " |
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St. Dunstan's The Episcopal Church | 0.25 | 1 |
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Other Churches St. Dunstan's Church may refer to: " |
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University Church of Christ | 0.26 | 1 |
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places The Churches of Christ, most commonly known as the Church of Christ or church of Christ, is a loose association of autonomous Christian congregations based on the sola scriptura doctrine. Their practices are based on Bible texts and draw on the early Christian church as described in the New Testament. The Churches of Christ are represented across the world. Typically, their distinguishing beliefs are that of the necessity of baptism for salvation and the prohibition of instruments in worship. Many Churches identify themselves as being nondenominational. The Churches of Christ arose to prominence in the United States from the Restoration Movement of 19th-century evangelism by groups who declared independence from denominations and traditional creeds. They sought \"the unification of all Christians in a single body patterned after the original church of the New Testament.\":\u200a54\u200a The Restoration Movement was not a purely North American phenomenon. There are now Churches of Christ in Africa, Asia, Australia, South America, Central America, and Europe. " |
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Auburn First Assembly Of God | 0.27 | 1 |
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places Christianity has through Church history produced a number of Christian creeds, confessions and statements of faith. The following lists are provided. In many cases, individual churches will address further doctrinal questions in a set of bylaws. Smaller churches see this as a formality, while churches of a larger size build this to be a large document describing the practical functioning of the church. " |
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church | 0.32 | 1 |
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Catholic Churches Sacred Heart Church or Sacred Heart Catholic Church or variations may refer to: " |
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Bent | 0.32 | 1 |
Cultural, Urban Environment, Interesting Places, Sculptures Bent may refer to: " |
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Auburn United Methodist Church | 0.32 | 1 |
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Other Churches Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church, formerly the home of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, was a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at 69 Wall Street in Auburn, New York, United States. It was a large Gothic Revival style brick and limestone structure built in 1788, and renovated in the 1887. Following years of neglect, it was damaged in a windstorm in the summer of 2021 and demolished.The facade was dominated by a square tower topped by a broach spire. It was an example of an auditorium plan church, popular in church design from the 1880s to 1920s. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. " |
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Eta Kappa Nu | 0.32 | 1 |
Cultural, Urban Environment, Interesting Places, Sculptures Eta Kappa Nu (\u0397\u039a\u039d) or IEEE-HKN is the international honor society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Joining HKN is by invitation only. Membership is a lifelong designation for individuals who have distinguished themselves as students or as professionals in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, and other fields of IEEE interest. " |
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University Seal | 0.33 | 1 |
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Veteran's Memorial Monument | 0.35 | 1 |
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Church of Christ | 0.35 | 1 |
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Civil War Cannon Lathe | 0.35 | 1 |
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First Presbyterian Church of Auburn | 0.37 | 1 |
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WWI Memorial | 0.41 | 1 |
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Ann Vance Ginn Plaza Fountain | 0.44 | 1 |
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Dillard-Lawson House | 0.49 | 1 |
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Bent | 0.5 | 1 |
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Saint Lukes Christian Methodist Episcopal Church | 0.57 | 1 |
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Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship | 0.6 | 1 |
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Pine Hill Cemetery | 0.64 | 1 |
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Pat Sullivan | 0.7 | 1 |
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John Heisman | 0.71 | 1 |
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Bo Jackson | 0.72 | 1 |
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Cam Newton | 0.74 | 1 |
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White Street Baptist Church | 0.76 | 1 |
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Graves Amphitheater | 0.81 | 1 |
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Monody | 0.86 | 1 |
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Telfair Peet Theatre | 0.87 | 1 |
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Trinity Lutheran Church | 0.87 | 1 |
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The Auburn Memorial | 0.91 | 1 |
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Founders' Oak | 0.96 | 1 |
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Bell Baptist Church | 1.04 | 1 |
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Baptist Hill Cemetery | 1.05 | 1 |
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Grace United Methodist Church | 1.08 | 1 |
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Westview Cemetery | 1.12 | 1 |
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Tiger Theater | 1.12 | 1 |
Cinemas, Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places Arian Moayed (Persian: \u0622\u0631\u06cc\u0646 \u0645\u0624\u06cc\u062f, born April 15, 1980) is an Iranian-American actor, writer, and director. Moayed received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Stewy Hosseini in HBO's Succession. Moayed has starred in the Broadway plays The Humans (2016), and A Doll's House (2023). He portrayed Todd Spodek in Netflix\u2019s Inventing Anna, as well as his portrayal of Agent P. Cleary in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home and Disney+ series Ms. Marvel. " |
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True Deliverance Holiness Church | 1.2 | 1 |
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Auburn Church of Christ | 1.22 | 1 |
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Covenant Presbyterian Church | 1.23 | 1 |
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Church Building | 1.26 | 1 |
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Memorial Park Cemetery | 1.51 | 1 |
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Grace Heritage Church | 1.64 | 1 |
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Town Creek Cemetary | 1.68 | 1 |
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Cherry Cemetery | 1.83 | 1 |
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