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June’s answer: This diminutive building was at one time the Bank of Gainesville, Ala., circa 1835-1840. It was moved to Tuscaloosa in the 1960s and returned to Gainesville by a local benefactor in the 1990s. The bank now occupies its original location adjoining the triangular town park. This is the only remaining commercial structure of the period. The town, perched on a wooded bluff overlooking the Tombigbee River in Sumter County, was a key inland shipping point in the cotton trade. (Information from the Society of Architectural Historians; photo by Allison Law of Alabama Living.) The randomly drawn correct guess winner is Rick Syklawer, Wiregrass EC.
