This Italianate-style cottage is located beside the historic Sturdivant Hall in Selma, AL. It was built in 1859 for Mr. and Mrs. Clement Billingslea White. Mrs. White was the former Martha Todd of Lexington, Kentucky, and a half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln. Mr. White was not a military person so the [...]
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 [...]
Demopolis is located at the confluence of the Tombigbee River and Black Warrior River atop a chalk cliff, known locally as White Bluff. The settlement was founded and named by a group of political exiles who had been banished from France following the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. This group reached White Bluff on July 14, [...]
This is the oldest documented structure in Camden. It was built for Thomas Dunn who was one of the earliest settlers of this area. He donated the land where Camden was built. This house was originally a two-story log house constructed c. 1825. The two-story frame addition was added to the house in the 1835-1840 [...]
This home was built circa 1840 for William Peter Webb, a lawyer, who came to Eutaw from North Carolina in 1839. The Greek Revival I-house styled building was built by Benjamin D. Gullett. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a part of the Antebellum Homes in Eutaw TR multiple property [...]
This home was built for Edward A. Blount and his wife, Mary, between 1853 and 1859. In January 1852, the Blount’s bought three lots at the location of this house for $26, $40 and $20. A clear title was granted for this property in January 1853 when the note was satisfied. In 1859, The Blount’s [...]
This log cabin is located beside the old depot to Peterman, AL. It was built by Deason Falkenberry (1825-1864) on the Coon Trail near Tunnel Springs. The cabin was donated to the Peterman Historical Society in 2008 by the Floyd Family in memory of Bertha Lee and Charley Ford and moved to its present location. [...]
The William Perkins House, also known as the Freemount, is a historic Greek Revival style house that was built in the 1850s by William Perkins, a wealthy merchant from Kentucky. The house is a two-story wood framed building on a raised brick foundation. Four monumental Ionic columns span the front portico. It has double parlors [...]
The Lowery-Henry house is just one of about 90 antebellum structures in the Marion area. It is thought that this house was built by a Lowery family in the 1850’s. This Greek Revival-style home is o…ne of only a few large houses in Alabama which has heavy square piers instead of the more conventional round [...]
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 [...]
Gibeon Jefferson Sullivan built this cabin circa 1874 and it remained in his possession until his death in 1914. In 2009, his heirs donated the cabin to the Private Gibeon Jefferson Sullivan Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). They moved the cabin from its original site on Bassett’s Creek to its present [...]
Overlooking the Tombigbee River, Bluff Hall exemplifies two major architectural trends in the Antebellum South. The house was built in 1832 by Allen Glover for his daughter, Sarah Serena Glover, and her husband, Francis Strother Lyon. The Lyons used Bluff Hall as a townhouse; they also resided at Bermuda Hill, their plantation near Arcola. The [...]
