Later, city funds paid for the demolition to allow for new streets to be built eastward towards the river and southward.

A 4/5-scale replica, spanning almost 1/3 of the original fort, was opened on July 4, 1976, as part of Mobile's celebration of the United States Bicentennial.

The original fort, from 1723, was shaped in the form of a seven-pointed star, with guard towers raised at the points (see map image) with significant surrounding earth works.

In design, it is similar to Spanish fort Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida.

[2] The tall chimneys at the ends of the buildings, shown in the map profile, were not used on the reconstructed Fort Condé.

After Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville moved Mobile downriver in May 1711 (following the death of his brother Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1706), he planned the next capital city (after 1718) to be on the Mississippi, in similar fashion to being on the Mobile, and so De Pauger also designed the Vieux Carré in New Orleans, which was built from 1719 to 1722.