HAUNTED PLACES

Baldwin Hill
Livingston, AL

Birmingham Public Library Archives
Birmingham, AL

Brown Hall
Athens, AL

Burrelson House
Decatur, AL

Cedarhurst Mansion
Huntsville, AL

Cleveland House
Suggsville, AL

Founders Hall
Athens, AL

Gainswood
Demopolis, AL

King House
Montevallo, AL

Leehaven
Coatopa, AL

Main Residence Hall
Montevallo, AL

Marengo
Lowndesboro, AL

McCandeless Hall
Athens, AL

Palmer Hall
Montevallo, AL

Pickens County Courthouse
Carrollton, AL

Reynolds Hall
Montevallo, AL

Sloss Furnaces
Birmingham, AL

Sturtivant Hall
Selma, AL

UNA Bookstore
Florence, AL

Upchurch House
Livingston, AL

Brown Hall
by Sandra Cook

I work in the President’s Office at Brown Hall. Basically, I do what has to be done. It is never boring. There’s always lots to do. The building was built in 1912. It was built in honor of and in memory of Florence Brown, who was the secretary to the President in the early 1900s. There was a typhoid epidemic here in1909. All of the faculty left except Florence Brown, who stayed in that building with the girls who couldn’t go home. Four girls died in that epidemic, and so did Florence. I believe she was from Chicago. Her parents had given money to the college and everything.

Prior to the building being used for administrative offices, it was used for continuing ed. One of the persons who taught art classes in that building told us after we moved in, "Don’t ever stay too late, because strange things happen here." Then he gave us some of the details. For example, he said if he had a night class and laid something down--he knew exactly where it was--the next day it might be moved or in another room. And at one time, he said, it was kind of a chain reaction. He was in the room late at night, and something started happening. It just sort of went around the entire room. Pictures fell, someone knocking on a trash can, sort of a domino effect, I guess.

 

 

Last updated 07/24/01