At the Alabama Confederate Soldiers' Home, individual cottages contrasted with the large barracks used at many other Civil War veterans homes across the country during the early 1900's. The cottages in this row were paid for by private donations. All nine cottages of the Soldiers' Home had unique exteriors but identical interiors, with four bedrooms housing eight "inmates" per cottage. Five of the ten cottages stood in a row, and a sixth, the E.L. More cottage, stood to the east across the present-day paved county road and served as the residence for the Home's commandants. One cottage in the middle of the row was unique because in 1903 the northern Civil War veterans' organization The Grand Army of the Republic paid for its construction as a gesture of brotherhood and reconciliation, and it was named the Blue and The Grey cottage. The E.L. More and Flowers cottages were named for lumbermen whose companies donated lumber, the Fox Maull cottage was named for Confederate veteran, Soldiers' Home board member, and lumber donor John Fox Maull, and the Lizzie Cameron cottage was named for Elizabeth Cameron Falkner, wife of Soldiers' Home founder Jefferson Manly Falkner. The Last Chance cottage was named by the veterans because terminally ill "inmates" were housed there. The Fox Maull cottage burned in 1903 and was rebuilt, burned again in 1930, and was not replaced. The remaining cottages, long vacant and becoming dilapidated, were torn down when the Home closed in 1939.