Gerald–Dowdell House
Gerald–Dowdell House | |
The Gerald–Dowdell House in 2009 | |
32°22′25″N 86°18′12″W / 32.37361°N 86.30333°W / 32.37361; -86.30333 | |
Area | less than one acre |
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Built | 1855 |
Architectural style | Italianate |
NRHP reference No. | 80000729[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 28, 1980 |
The Gerald–Dowdell House, in Montgomery, Alabama, was built c.1854. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1][2]
It was built by Perley and Camilla (Sanford) Buckley Gerald. Perley Gerald, a native of New York, moved to Alabama in 1829, first settling in Mobile before moving to the Montgomery area to trade with the Creek Indians. During the Gold Rush of 1849, Gerald went west and made a fortune trading with the miners. He later married Camilla Sanford Buckley, whose brother was General John Williams Sanford of Georgia and whose nephew was Colonel J.W.A. Sanford, Jr., who designed the State flag.
According to local tradition, Herman Arnold, conductor of the orchestra at the Montgomery Theater, was renting the front corner room of the house in 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War. Arnold arranged “Dixie” as a march and led the Montgomery Brass Band in the inaugural parade. Another local inhabitant was Robert T. Simpson, a Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who lived in the building from 1940 to 1949. The building is within walking distance of several key sites in the civil rights movement, including Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King once served as pastor.
The Gerald–Dowdell House is one of the few large raised cottages remaining in Montgomery, and has undergone substantial rehabilitation as part of its conversion for use as a law office for the firm of Wilkerson & Bryan, P.C. In 2000, construction was completed on a new building connected to the historic structure through what was once an enclosed back porch. The addition was designed to convey the image of a carriage house, in keeping with the historic nature of the site.
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Ellen Mertins; Mary Ann Neeley (February 26, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Gerald-Dowdell House". National Park Service. Retrieved April 16, 2021. With accompanying three photos from 1977-79
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Landmarks
- Alabama State Capitol
- Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
- Montgomery Union Station and Trainshed
- United States Post Office and Courthouse – Montgomery
districts
- Alabama State University Historic District
- City of St. Jude Historic District
- Cloverdale Historic District
- Cottage Hill Historic District
- Court Square–Dexter Avenue Historic District
- Dowe Historic District
- Garden District
- Huntingdon College Campus Historic District
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- South Perry Street Historic District
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- Governor's Mansion
- Grace Episcopal Church
- Harrington Archaeological Site
- Jefferson Franklin Jackson House
- Jere Shine Site
- Gov. Thomas G. Jones House
- McBryde–Screws–Tyson House
- Mt. Zion AME Zion Church
- Muklassa
- The Murphy House
- Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Opp Cottage
- Pastorium, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
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- Powder Magazine
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- Stone Plantation
- Tankersley Rosenwald School
- Dr. C.A. Thigpen House
- Tulane Building
- Tyson–Maner House
- Winter Building
- Winter Place
- William Lowndes Yancey Law Office
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