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[[Image:BaarsHome-Interior.jpg|thumb|right|Interior of the Baars home]]
 
[[Image:BaarsHome-Interior.jpg|thumb|right|Interior of the Baars home]]
'''Cordova Towers''' (also known as '''Cordova''' or '''The Towers''') was the name of the 14-room home and estate built by [[Henry Baars|Henry]] and [[Mary Ellison Baars]] in {{date needed}}. The house was located on the eastern shore of [[Bayou Texar]], just south of the current [[Baars Park]]. It was named for the Spanish city of [[Wikipedia:Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]], which the Baarses had visited in their travels. The oak trees that form the "[[tree tunnel]]" on [[12th Avenue]] were planted as a driveway leading to the estate.
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'''Cordova''' was the name of the '''Baars family home''' built by [[Henry Baars|Henry]] and [[Mary Ellison Baars]] in {{date needed}}. The house was located on the eastern shore of [[Bayou Texar]], just south of the current [[Baars Park]]. It was named for the Spanish city of [[Wikipedia:Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]], which the Baarses had visited in their travels.
  
Mary Ellison intended to develop the surrounding area — from [[Davis Highway]] to [[Escambia Bay]] — with vacation homes for wealthy northerners. She had plans made for three-bedroom, one-bath houses that would range from $4,000 to $7,000 in price, completely furnished with groundskeepers to tend the yards.<ref>"Baars Meant Serious Business With City's Early Development." ''Pensacola News'', March 7-11, 1983.</ref> She also envisioned a hydroelectric plant that would be placed in [[Carpenter's Creek]]. Baars died in [[1923]] before any work started, however, and the plan was scrapped when economic conditions soured; the [[Cordova Park]] neighborhood was eventually developed on the eastern side of [[Bayou Texar]], and much of the estate to the north became the [[Cordova business district]].
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Mary Ellison intended to develop the surrounding area with vacation homes for wealthy northerners, and the oak trees that form the [[tree tunnel]] on [[12th Avenue]] were planted for that purpose. However, the plan was scrapped when economic conditions soured, and the area was eventually developed as the [[Cordova Park]] neighborhood.
  
In the 1940s the Cordova Towers home was owned by Philip G. and Eleanor DuPont Rust of Wilmington, Delaware.<ref>Del Alexa Eagan Jupiter. ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=u1lKAAAAMAAJ Agustina of Spanish West Florida and Her Descendants]''. Genealogy Pub. Service, 1994.</ref> It was demolished in {{date needed}}. [[Mary Firestone Baars]] donated the land for [[Baars Park]] to the [[City of Pensacola]] in {{date needed}}.
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In the 1940s the home was owned by Philip G. and Eleanor DuPont Rust of Wilmington, Delaware.<ref>Del Alexa Eagan Jupiter. ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=u1lKAAAAMAAJ Agustina of Spanish West Florida and Her Descendants]''. Genealogy Pub. Service, 1994.</ref> It was demolished in {{date needed}}.
  
 
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