Goode-Hall House
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 View of the house from 2006 |
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| location | Town Creek , Alabama | ||
| Coordinates | 34 ° 43 '31 " N , 87 ° 23' 24" W | ||
| Built | 1830 | ||
| NRHP number | 74000418 | ||
| The NRHP added | 1st October 1974 | ||
The Goode-Hall House or also generally Saunders Hall is a historic house of a plantation owner in the valley of the Tennessee River near Town Creek , Alabama . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1974 because of its architectural importance .
history
The house was built in 1830 by Turner Saunders, a Brunswick County , Virginia native , a Methodist chaplain and planter. After living there for more than a decade, Saunders sold the 40-acre property to Freeman Goode in 1844. The house was later bought by the Hall family and became the property of the Mauldin family in the 1940s. She is still the owner of the property, but has never lived here because of its seclusion.
architecture
The house was built in a rural variation of Palladianism in a three-part floor plan, possibly influenced by the architecture of Jefferson Virginia, the home of Saunders. The spasmodically close proximity of the three triangular pediments on the front clash with the anonymous composition of the building; the rest, however, is well balanced.
The house is made of bricks on a raised foundation. The two-story main wing has a portico with columns of the Tuscan order , the pediment of which is decorated with a curved lunette , a common feature of Jeffersonian architecture. On the flanks of the main wing are the two one-story side wings, the front gable triangles of which also have lunettes. The front of the side wings have pilasters with simple capitals . The front entrance of the house is noteworthy as it is framed by two Tuscan columns that support a molded cornice .
gallery
South and West Side (1937)
North and East Side (1935)
Front porch, front entrance
Mantelpiece
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed July 26, 2017
- ^ A b c Robert Gamble: Historic architecture in Alabama: a guide to styles and types, 1810-1930 ( English ). The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 1990, ISBN 0817311343 , pp. 10,53-55.
- ^ A b c Chip Cooper, Harry J. Knopke, Robert S. Gamble: Silent in the Land . CKM Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 1993, ISBN 0963671308 , pp. 126, 188.
- ↑ Plantation Architecture in Alabama ( English ) In: Encyclopedia of Alabama . Retrieved December 12, 2008.