At the Alabama Confederate Soldiers' Home, individual cottages contrasted with the large barracks common at many other Civil War veterans homes in the early 1900's. All nine cottages had unique exteriors but identical interiors, with four bedrooms housing eight inmates per cottage. Along this hillside, four of the ten cottages stood in a row running roughly east and west and faced the other five cottages to the south. The "John E. Moore" cottage, near the top of the hill, was funded and named by the Episcopal Church of North Alabama. Nearby stood the "Camp Hardee" cottage, named for the Birmingham UCV camp that funded its construction. Farther down the hill stood "Cottage Number 8" and "Cottage Number 7," both built by the State of Alabama in anticipation of a growing number of residents. "Cottage Number 7" was nicknamed the "Cripple Creek Hotel" because the veterans housed there had been deprived of the means of locomotion, according to one early account. At the bottom of the hill stood the Soldiers' Home's twenty-five-bed hospital. As the veterans died, the cottages became vacant, and they were dismantled after the Soldiers' Home closed in October 1939.