Alfred Battle Home, Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, AL
Summary
Significance: House associated with prominent merchant and railroad financier, Alfred Battle and New South politician and industrialist Barnard Friedman. / This two-story Greek Revival style house features a six-column portico across the front constructed of brick (stuccoed, scored and marbleized). Interiors feature a center-hall plan and elaborate plasterwork in two parlors, executed during the Friedman residence when formal gardens were also developed.
Survey number: HABS AL-226
Building/structure dates: 1840-1842 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Charles Hopkins & Company
Friedman & Loveman
Prince home
University of Alabama
Battle, Alfred
Friedman, Linka
Burkhardt, E Walter, project manager
Bush, Alex, photographer
Floyd, Katherine, historian
Manning, W N, photographer
Location
Tuscaloosa, 33.19021, -87.55874
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html