Hawthorne (Prairieville, Alabama)

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Coordinates: 32°30′50″N 87°41′59″W / 32.51389°N 87.69972°W / 32.51389; -87.69972
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Hawthorne
MPS
Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission
NRHP reference No.94000694[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 7, 1994

Hawthorne, also known as the Browder Place, is a historic

historic district in Prairieville, Alabama, USA. This area of Hale County was included in Marengo County before the creation of Hale in 1867.[2] Hawthorne is included in the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 7, 1994, due to its architectural significance.[1]

History

Construction on Hawthorne began in 1818. It was eventually enlarged to a large house with over 30 rooms and a full basement by the Manning family, who used the forced labor of enslaved people to work the plantation.

Mount Airy in Richmond Co Virginia. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute, inherited Walnut Grove Plantation and married Miss Lucie Randolph of "Oakleigh" plantation. He and the client designed the house with inspiration drawn from Samuel Sloan's 1852 publication of The Model Architect.[5]

Architecture

Hawthorne is built in the

French doors open onto the porch from the parlor and dining room. The tower contains an arched entrance vestibule at the base. It originally had arched windows on the third level, as well as decorative woodwork on the second level and around the ground floor archway. The tower windows have been replaced by simple square sash windows and the decorative details have been simplified with the addition of synthetic siding.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^
    ISBN 1-891647-58-X
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  3. ^ Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 6 March 2008.
  4. ^ Chronicles of the Canebrake, John Witherspoon Dubose, Alabama Quarterly, Winter 1947
  5. ISBN 0-9636713-0-8
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