Autauga County (Completed)

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1.   Bell House – 550 Upper Kingston Rd.  Prattville
2.   Daniel Pratt Historic District – Roughly bounded by Northington Rd. & 1st, 6th, Bridge, and Court Sts.
3.   Lassiter House – County Rd. 15, ½ mile north of junction with State Route 14  Autaugaville
4.   Montgomery-Janes-Wittaker House – S of Prattville off State Route 14
5.   Mount Sinai School – 1820 County Road 57  Prattville

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1.   Bell House – 550 Upper Kingston Rd.  Prattville

The Bell House (also known as Biggs House) is a historic house located at 550 Upper Kingston Road in Prattville, Alabama. It is locally significant as an excellent example of the Queen Anne style of architecture, that reached its zenith in Alabama at the turn of the 20th century and continued locally as late as 1920.

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2.   Daniel Pratt Historic District – Roughly bounded by Northington Rd. & 1st, 6th, Bridge, and Court Sts.

The Daniel Pratt Historic District is a historic district that includes 140 acres (57 ha) and 154 buildings in Prattville, Alabama. It is named in honor of Prattville's founder, Daniel Pratt. The district includes the historic downtown and is roughly bounded by 6th Street in the north, Northington Street in the east, 1st Street in the south, and Bridge and Court streets in the west. Architecture in the district includes the Greek Revival, Italianate, and Bungalow styles.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1984.[1]

The district includes the Autauga County Courthouse. It also includes the site of the Daniel Pratt House, which was demolished in 1960 to make way for the expansion of the successor to the Pratt industrial complex.

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3.   Lassiter House – County Rd. 15, ½ mile north of junction with State Route 14  Autaugaville

The Lassiter House, also known as the Treadwell House, is a historic residence in Autaugaville, Alabama. The house was built in 1825 in the vernacular I-house style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997. It is also listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.





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4.   Montgomery-Janes-Wittaker House – S of Prattville off State Route 14

The Montgomery–Janes–Whittaker House, best known today as Buena Vista, is a historic Federal style plantation house in Autauga County, Alabama, south of Prattville. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1974. The house is currently owned by the Autauga County Heritage Association and operated as a historic house museum.

Construction of the house was started in 1822 by one of the first landowners, John W. Freeman or Josiah Huie. It was completed by the next owner, William Montgomery, in 1844.[3] Mary Emma Scott Stewart purchased the property in 1910 from the Montgomery family. Jacob Janes then owned the house for two years before it was sold to the Fred Whittaker family in 1937. The Whittaker family restored and added modern amenities to the house. They owned it until 1978, when the house was inherited by M.W. Petrey, Jr. It was sold again in 1982 to the Union Camp Corporation, a pulp and paper company that allowed the Autauga County Heritage Association to preserve and maintain the house. Following Union Camp's acquisition by International Paper, the new owner donated the house to the association in 2007

Original exterior details of the ​2 1⁄2-story frame house include delicately built fanlights over the front doors and in the side gable ends. The interior features elaborate plasterwork and a spiral mahogany staircase that ascends from the ground floor to the third floor attic. A monumental Ionic portico was added to the front facade of the house during the Colonial Revival period by the Stewart family. The Whittaker family changed the front portico floor from wood to brick and added cast iron to the existing second floor balcony during their restoration efforts.

(Wikipedia photo)

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5.   Mount Sinai School – 1820 County Road 57  Prattville

The Mount Sinai School is a historic Rosenwald School in rural Autauga County, Alabama, northwest of Prattville. The one-story frame building was built in 1919 to the designs of W.A. Hazel to serve the local African American community. The money to build it was provided by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. The school was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on February 2, 2001. It was subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 2001, as a part of The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings Multiple Property Submission.







This structure appeared to be in much better shape than the Rosenwald School I visited in Montgomery County

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Awesome job!  I'm hoping to get out and ride more soon.  I'd like to get some of the northern and western counties.