Aduston Hall: Difference between revisions

| name = Aduston Hall

| nrhp_type = cp

| nocat = yes
| partof = Gainesville Historic District

| partof_refnum = 85002925

| image = Aduston Hall in Gainesville Alabama.jpg

| caption = Aduston Hall in 2007

| location = [[Gainesville, Alabama]], [[United States]]

'''Aduston Hall''' is a historic [[Antebellum architecture|antebellum]] [[Plantation house in the Southern United States|plantation house]] house in the [[Gainesville,Tombigbee AlabamaRiver|Gainesvilleriverside]], town of [[Gainesville, Alabama]],.<ref Unitedname="alcatalog" States./> Although the raised cottage displays the strict symmetry and precise detailing of the [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]] style, it is very unusual in its massing. The house is low and spread out over one-story with a fluid floor-plan more reminiscent of a 20th -century [[ranch-style house|California ranch house]] than the typically boxy neoclassical houses of its own era.<ref name="alcatalog">{{cite book | last =Gamble | first =Robert | year =1987 | title =The Alabama Catalog: A Guide to the Early Architecture of the State | page=71 | publisher =University of Alabama Press | location = University, AL | isbn =08173014880-8173-0148-8 }}</ref><ref name="silent">{{cite book |title=Silent in the Land |last1=Cooper |first1=Chip |last2=Knopke |first2=Harry |last3=Gamble |first3=Robert |year=1993 |publisher=CKM Press |location=Tuscaloosa, Ala. |isbn=9780963671301978-0-9636713-0-1 |pages=114, 176}}</ref><ref name="gainesvillemra">[http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/{{NRHP/Text/ url|id=64000015.pdf |title=Gainesville MRA]}} NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved July 2, 2011.</ref>

It is a [[contributing property]] to the [[Gainesville Historic District]]. The district was listed on the [[Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage]] on March 25, 1976, and the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on October 3, 1985.<ref name="nris"/><ref name="arlh">{{citeARLHref|version=201105|accessdate=July web2, 2011}}</ref> Now owned by the Sumter County Historical Society, the house is operated as a visitor welcome center for the historic district.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|titleversion=Properties2009a}}</ref><ref onname="gainesvillemra"/> The Society also uses the Alabamahouse Registerand grounds as the centerpiece of Landmarksits &Sumter Heritage Days, held each spring. In 1994, the Historical Society received $130,000 in local, state, and federal funds to stabilize and restore the house.<ref name="ahdp">{{cite web|title=Aduston Hall Development Plan |url=http://preservealawww.olemiss.edu/projects/sacs2009/ccr/rsrc/SACS/Item30208QualifiedAdministrativeAcademicOfficers/PATE_-_CV_-_2007.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/pdfsweb/LEE_ANNE_UPDATES20100605091227/AR%20Listing%20updated%205http://www.31olemiss.11edu/projects/sacs2009/ccr/rsrc/SACS/Item30208QualifiedAdministrativeAcademicOfficers/PATE_-_CV_-_2007.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=MayJune 315, 20112010 |workauthor=AlabamaJames HistoricalP. Pate, CommissionPhD |publisher=www.preserveala.orgUniversity of Mississippi |accessdate=July 2, 2011 |archiveurlpage=http://www.webcitation.org/5zFoCCAPl5 |archivedate=June 6, 2011}}</ref><ref name="tepl">{{cite Nowweb owned|title=Transportation byEnhancements theProject SumterList County|url=http://www.railstotrails.org/resources/documents/ourWork/TE_pdfs/TE_Project_List-AL-07.pdf Historical|work=National Society,Transportation theEnhancements houseClearinghouse is|publisher=Rails-to-Trails operatedConservancy as|accessdate=July a2, visitor welcome center for the Gainesville Historic District.2011}}<ref name="nris"/><ref name="gainesvillemra"/>

Aduston Hall was built in the Greek Revival style as a [[summer home]] for Amos Travis from 1844 to 1846. Travis, a resident of [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]], used the house as escapea refuge from the heat, humidity, and disease that plagued Mobile during the summer months. The property was a largely self-sufficient [[Plantation complexes in the Southeastern United States|plantation complex]]. Five 19th-century outbuildings remain at the site.<ref name="canebrake">{{cite web |title=Aduston Hall |url=http://www.alabamacanebrake.org/resultsdetail.asp?id=463 |work=Gainesville Preservation Society |publisher=Alabama Canebrake |accessdate=July 2, 2011}}</ref> With its H|url-shapedstatus=dead plan, the house provided excellent|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005203753/http://www.alabamacanebrake.org/resultsdetail.asp?id=463 [[Natural ventilation|crossarchivedate=October ventilation]]5, for2011 all of the major rooms.}}</ref name="silent"/>

The exteriorone-story of thewood-frame house comprisesis composed of a rectangular central main block and H-shaped side wings. The roof of the central portion runs parallel to the front of the house. The center of this block is fronted by a temple-like pedimented [[Doric order|Doric]] portico projecting several feet out from the main porch, flanked to each side by the main Doric porch under the main roof. The central front entrance door is derived from designs published by [[Asher Benjamin]]. The main block is abutted on both sides by front gabled side wings projecting past the central portion to the front and rear of the house. These are ornamented with Doric [[pilaster]]s.<ref name="alcatalog"/> With its H-shaped plan, the house provided excellent [[Natural ventilation|cross ventilation]] for all of the major rooms.<ref name="silent"/>

[[Category:Greek Revival architecturehouses in Alabama]]

[[Category:PlantationsPlantation houses in Alabama]]

[[Category:Buildings and structuresHouses completed in 1844]]