Below are some of the oldest and most historic structures that remain in rural southwest Alabama. Click on the "learn more" icons to access additional details and pictures.
The Murphy-Dunlap house is just one of many historic antebellum homes in Eutaw. This frame-story-over-high-brick-foundation style house was built in 1 …
This , two-story, Greek Revival house was built circa 1848 for Mark A. Myatt, who was a merchant and planter. The home has a three-bay façade. The cen …
The New Hope Baptist Church and its adjacent cemetery are listed on both the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and on the Alabama Register o …
The Newbern Baptist Church was organized in 1848. The following year, the congregation built this two-story church. The upper floor has a large meetin …
This is the oldest church in Newbern and one of the oldest Presbyterian Churches in this part of Alabama. The Newbern Presbyterian Church was organize …
The Noel-Ramsey home (also referred to as the Old French House) is the oldest home in Greensboro. Constructed between 1819-21 by Thomas and Anne Hurte …
This small two-story brick building is referred to as the Old Sheriff’s Office and the Grand Jury Room. It is located on the northeast corner of Euta …
This building was built circa 1832 as a law office. It was the first YMCA building in the South to be owned by a local chapter. Additionally, the buil …
In 1831, Colonel Moses Lewis purchased the land where Gainesville is currently located and he had the land divided into lots for a town. The new town …
This Greek Revival courthouse building was built around 1848. It was the third building to serve as the courthouse for Marengo County, AL, out of a to …
This building is located on the Courthouse Square at downtown Livingston, AL. Built ca. 1830, it was the only structure to survive on the Square when …
During the early 1800s, pioneers from Georgia and the Carolinas, many of whose families immigrated to this country from Scotland and Ireland, settled …
This home began as a one-room law office that was built and used by Judge William C. Oliver. On December 29, 1859, he sold his office to Gustave Braun …
This church is located in Orrville, AL in Dallas County at the intersection of Mill Street South and Academy Street (GPS coordinates 32.30489,-87.2459 …
This “coastal cottage” is thought to have been built in the 1830s by Stephen and Juliet Palmer and possibly modified by Dabney Palmer around 1860. It …
This two-story farmhouse, built circa 1834 by Joel Parish, his wife, Emma Curby, and their children, is one of the oldest buildings in Perry County. …
This Greek Revival-style home was built circa 1859 by Dr. Clifford Daniel Parke, a prominent Selma Physician who served as president of the Alabama Me …
Cahawba, also spelled Cahaba, was Alabama’s first state capital (1820-1826). It became a ghost town shortly after the Civil War. Today, the old Cahawb …
This two-story wood-frame house was built circa 1856 by Phillip Schoppert, a native of South Carolina. The house is a hipped-roof variant of the I-hou …
This two-story Italianate-style home was built around 1849. It has elaborately bracketed eaves and woodwork. The house was purchased by Charles Lewis …
The Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, originally known as Mount Carmel Presbyterian Church, is a historic Greek Revival church located in southeaster …
This is a one-story hipped-roof Greek Revival house with a substantial turn-of-the-century front addition containing gingerbread trim. Features includ …
Southern University was founded in Greensboro by the Methodists in 1856. This school prospered during the 1800s. In 1918, it merged with Birmingham So …
The centerpiece of the Courthouse Square at Eutaw is the old Greene County Courthouse which was built in 1870. Located on the northwest corner of the …
The Public Square is a historic park located at downtown Demopolis. It covers one city block, bounded by Main, Capitol, Walnut and Washington Streets …
This home was built around 1840 by the Purifoy family, one of the earliest to settle Wilcox County. Its style is similar to several in the Furman area …
This house was originally built circa 1840 near Furman, AL for William Madison Purifoy. Thomas P. Melton of Pine Apple purchased the house in l937. He …
Reverie is a historic Greek Revival mansion that was built circa 1858. The house was photographed and recorded by the Historic American Buildings Surv …
This one and one half-story raised cottage was built circa 1843. It was purchased 20 years later by Louis S. Riggs and the house is still occupied by …
This GreeK Revival-style house was built around 1853 as the parsonage for the Baptist minister. Except for modernizing, this structure has been altere …
The Robbins Hotel was a historic hotel building in Beatrice. The building began as a private, one-story home with six rooms, built circa 1840. A secon …
In the early 1860s, Thomas Henry Roberts built this log cabin at Mount Hope in east Wilcox County using yellow pine logs from his property. The logs a …
This small house was built for Richard Haskins Roberts ca. 1851. It has a center-hall with a single large room on either side and shed rooms behind. T …
This is one of the oldest and most historic buildings in Demopolis. It was built in 1843 by the Presbyterians of Demopolis using locally-made bricks. …
William M. Rumph built his two-story Greek Revival home about 1840. Centered on the façade is a two-story pedimented portico which is supported by squ …
This house is thought to have been built during the 1835-1840 time period for Walter W. Russell (1806 – 1878), who was from New Hampshire. He was one …
This church was built in 1854 at the plantation community of The Fork of Greene located twelve miles southeast of Boligee. The building was consecrat …
This house was originally a one-story home built circa 1834 by Captain Samuel Madison Scott at Scott’s Station, just west of Marion. Captain Scott’s w …
This two story-frame dwelling was built about 1860. It has an end chimney, nine over nine double hung windows, and a single bay entrance with a full h …