This beautiful two-story Victorian-style home was completed in 1890 by Robert Allen White, a prominent merchant and banker in Newbern, AL. It has Victorian gables on the front and a long porch running the full length of the house. Along the edge of the porch is a total of nine small columns – five of [...]
Magnolia Grove, an excellent example of temple-style Greek Revival architecture, was built around 1840 as a town house by Isaac and Sarah Croom, whose plantations were about 20 miles south of Greensboro near Faunsdale. The main house and three dependencies are preserved on 15 acres. The house is a two-story masonry structure, built with bricks [...]
Magnolia Hall, also known as the McCrary-Otts House, is a historic Greek Revival mansion in Greensboro, Alabama. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the Greensboro Historic District and was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey in March 1936. David F. McCrary, a prominent cotton broker [...]
On the night of March 21, 1968, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sought refuge from the Ku Klux Klan inside a small, shotgun-style home in the depot neighborhood of Greensboro, AL. (This occurred just two weeks prior to the assassination of Rev. King in Memphis, TN.) Mrs. Theresa Burroughs, a close friend of the King [...]
Tanglewood is a historic plantation house near Akron, Alabama. The Greek Revival cottage was built in 1859 by Page Harris, on land that he had purchased in 1824. It was given to the University of Alabama as a memorial to Nicholene Bishop in 1949 and the grounds are now used as a 480-acre nature reserve [...]
The exact age of this house is not known, but it dates back well into the antebellum period. One of the owners of this home was a Mr. Chadwick who died of yellow fever in 1854, at the age of 39. It’s not known if he built the house. This house has a large basement [...]
The exact age of the library building is not known, but it dates back to at least 1870 and probably earlier. The first building on this lot was a shoe shop in the 1820′s. Part of the building that is now the library was used as a drug store after the Civil War. By the [...]
The Newbern Methodist congregation selected the present site and completed this church in the fall of 1884. (Prior to this time, they held their services in the Presbyterian Church.) The lumber used in the construction of the church building is hand-hewn and mortised. The walnut alter rail in the church is hand-hewn. The pulpit and [...]
This beautiful house was built around 1845 by a prosperous Greensboro merchant tailor named Philip Happel. This two-story home has both upper and lower verandas running the whole width of the house. It has four large, square columns running to the roof, and there are unusually decorative captions at each level. Opening onto both porches [...]
Dr. Gaston Drake, a planter and local physician, purchased this property in 1849 and had a house built on it. The house was destroyed by fire before the Drake family could move into it. There was speculation that arson was probably the cause for the fire, the consequences of a disagreement with the contractor. The [...]
This parish, established in 1830, is the third oldest in the Alabama diocese. This church was erected in 1840 and consecrated in 1843 by Leonidas Polk, Bishop of Louisiana, who was later a Confederate general. It was here that Nicholas H. Cobbs was chosen as the first Bishop of Alabama in 1844. This church is [...]
The Oak Grove School is a historic two-room Rosenwald School building. It was built to the designs of Samuel Smith from Tuskegee Institute in 1925 to serve the local African American community. The money to build the school was provided by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. The school was open until 1968. It then was used [...]
