Colonel Green G. Mobley House

Historic house in Alabama, United States

United States historic place


Col. Green G. Mobley House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


32°49′6″N 88°9′38″W / 32.81833°N 88.16056°W / 32.81833; -88.16056
Area	3.3 acres (1.3 ha)
Built	1845 (1845)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	82002070^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 18, 1982

The Colonel Green G. Mobley House, also known as The Magnolia, is a historic house in Gainesville, Sumter County, Alabama. The two-story wood-frame house was built for Colonel Green G. Mobley, a native of Fairfield County, South Carolina, and his wife Henrietta, a native of Vermont. The Greek Revival-style structure was completed circa 1845. Architectural historians consider it to be among West Alabama's most refined expressions of domestic Greek Revival architecture.^[2]

The house is centered on a 3.3-acre (1.3 ha) corner lot, surrounded by a high brick wall that is almost as old as the house itself. The front facade is five bays wide, with a monumental tetrastyle portico covering the central three bays. The bays are separated by boxed pilasters on the front. The portico is pedimented and utilizes the Ionic order. A denticulated cornice crowns the entablature around the entire structure. Exterior and interior trim conforms to published designs of Asher Benjamin and Minard Lafever, early proponents of the Greek Revival movement.^[2]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1982.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Robert Gamble; Ellen Mertins (October 6, 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Colonel Green G. Mobley House". National Park Service. Retrieved April 9, 2013. See also: "Accompanying photos".

National Register of Historic Places in Sumter County, Alabama

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Col. Green G. Mobley House
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