Monroe County Heritage Museums

 Hybart  

 House  

Welcome! 

     I am Virginia McDuffie Hybart Taylor, and I want to welcome you to my former home, Hybart House. My four children and I gave the home to the Monroe County Heritage Museums in memory of my parents, Virginia Marion McDuffie Hybart and Charles Louis Hybart, who built the house, lived in it and loved it. 

     My father, Charlie Hybart, was born in Monroeville, grew up in north Monroe County, attended Marion Institute and the University of Alabama. He graduated from Alabama Law School in 1897. He practiced law throughout south Alabama. He had offices in Monroeville and Bay Minette. In 1924, he bought this property for his fiancé, Marion McDuffie, 20 years his junior. 
       Mother was born at McDuffie Place at River Ridge near Franklin, Alabama. She was taught first at home, then at Miss Nannie Baker’s school in Mobile, graduating there. She attended Randolph Macon Women’s College in Lynchburgh, Virginia, where she pledged Kappa Delta Sorority. She transferred as a junior to the University of Alabama. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was the first president of the Women’s Student Government Association. In her 60s she attended Columbia University’s Graduate School in New York City. 
       During the engagement of my parents, they hired George Willis, a renowned Pensacola, Florida, architect to draw their house plans. The house, known for its Mediterranean Spanish architecture with red tile roof, plaster walls and many porches, was under way when they were married in 1925 and Mother moved to Monroeville. The rocks for the foundation and columns had been hauled by wagon from Limestone Creek. 
      The living room, with hand-hewn beams from Monroe County walnuts, and the dining room were always in the center with the kitchen and guest quarters at the north end and the family living area at the south end.

The Hybart House is available for weddings, receptions, seminars and other cultural events.
It is located in the heart of Monroeville.

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A Monroe County Heritage Museums Property 

Available for group tours or special events.

Call (251) 575-7433

 VREDENBURGH 

 PARK 

The Vredenburgh Park was donated to the Museum by the citizens of Vredenburgh in 2000. The park has been planted with native species trees and shrubs with identifying markers on many of these already found in the park. a memorial and interpretive exhibit on the heritage of the area is planned for the future.