Fairhope’s historic circular hut located in “Tolstoy Park” is on its way down the road to the Flying Creek Nature Preserve.
The small house, sometimes referred to as the “Hermit Hut,” was built in 1926 by Henry Stuart, an Idaho man who relocated to Fairhope after receiving a diagnosis for tuberculosis — then known as “consumption.”
Stuart had heard of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony and was intrigued by the teachings of Henry George, an economist whose theories shaped Fairhope’s founding…