Monterey Place, best known as the Shepard House, is a historic residence in

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. The house was designed by architect

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in 1897 for Charles Martin Shepard, the general passenger agent for the

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in Mobile. Shepard's daughters, Kate and Isabel, began to use the house as a boarding school in 1910. The house features elaborate Queen Anne details, eleven fireplaces, and several stained glass windows. The slightly later neighborhood surrounding the mansion, as well as the street, are also named Monterey Place. It was placed on the

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on January 5, 1984. The house was opened as a

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inn about 2002. In February 2008, the house and current owners were filmed for an episode of

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's ''If Walls Could Talk''.

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