{"id":143,"date":"2025-10-04T02:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2025-10-04T02:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:43:36","slug":"historic-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/historic-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic designation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol start=\"127\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>313 Franklin Street SE<br>c.1841<br>Listed as Resource #78 in Twickenham Historic District<br>The \u201cHuntsville Mercury Building\u201d is a three-story commercial building dating from the mid-nineteenth<br>century that has been renovated in the modern era for use as offices and apartments. Perhaps the city\u2019s<br>best preserved antebellum commercial building, the earliest record is that it housed the offices Huntsville<br>Advocate, a Whig newspaper edited by William Bibb Figures. It then housed the printing offices of the<br>Mercury newspaper through 1913 and Huntsville Publishing Company in 1921. The narrow brick building<br>features a gable roof with standing seam metal panels and parapets, flush eaves, twelve-over-twelve sash<br>windows on the upper floors, and a six-over-six sash window at street level. The upper levels feature<br>original metal balconies supported by ornamental brackets and served by paired glazed doors surmounted<br>by transoms. The primary entrance at street level features a recessed portico with a five-pane transom and<br>set of wooden steps. The building has a full basement level. A narrow service alley separates this building<br>from the adjacent building at 309 Franklin Street. The north and rear elevations features twelve-over-twelve<br>sash windows on the upper floors. An entrance is located on the rear elevation. A brick paved sidewalk<br>serves the street level entrance. This property was included within the 1972 NRHP boundaries. From the<br>street, the building appears as it did in 1972 [photo #27]. (C)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mercurybuilding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}