On This Day In Alabama History: Hank Aaron Childhood Home And Museum Relocated To Mobile Stadium

Alabama News Center | October 27, 2019 @ 5:02 am

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Henry “Hank” Aaron was born in 1934. His dad, Herbert, built a three-room home for the family in 1942 in Mobile’s Toulminville neighborhood. The one-story home with clapboard siding, which was enlarged to seven rooms through the years, has two huge front windows and a porch supported by four columns.

The city purchased the home in 2007 and relocated it to Hank Aaron Stadium in Mobile on Oct. 27, 2008. It took more than seven hours and 100 people to move the house 7 miles.

Restoring the house was a 22-month process. Aaron, Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig and seven other members of Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame attended the dedication on April 14, 2010.

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