Oakleigh Historic complex

Oakleigh is historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It is the centerpiece of the Oakleigh Historic Complex, a grouping of buildings that contain a working-class raised cottage, Union Barracks, and a modern archives building. The story behind the name for the estate is a combination of the word oak and the Anglo-Saxon word lea that means meadow. The complex is within the Oakleigh Garden Historic District, the surrounding district and neighborhood being named after the estate

The Oakleigh Historic Complex Mobile, Alabama consists of the Cox-Deasy Cottage, the Union Barracks, and the Minnie Mitchell Archives.

· The Union Barracks, built in 1867, used to be known as the Cook's House. It has been restored to tell the story of post-Emancipation life in Mobile. It is one of the few surviving structures built for Reconstruction after the Civil War.

· The Cox-Deasy Cottage, built in 1850, is a Creole raised cottage now serving as a program space for the Historic Mobile Preservation Society.

· Minnie Mitchell Archives houses the archives of the Historic Mobile Preservation Society. The archives house historic maps, scrapbooks, Mardi gras related files, surname files, newspapers and newspaper clippings, and ious special collections.