The Carlen House, also known as the Carlen House Museum, is a

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. The house was built in the Gulf Coast cottage style in 1843. It was the residence of Michael and Mary Carlen, Irish immigrants, and their twelve children. Operated as a farm during the 19th century, the Mobile County School Board acquired of the property from the Carlen family in 1923 as the site for a new public city school. As a result, the house is now on the northern edge of the

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campus. It was placed on the

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on June 12, 1981. The house is currently not open to the public, however is used by the Murphy High School students on occasion.

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