Agee House | |
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| Location | 1804 Twelfth Ave. S, Birmingham, Alabama |
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| Coordinates | 33°29′55″N86°47′54″W / 33.49861°N 86.79833°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c.1900 |
| Architectural style | Shingle Style |
| NRHP reference No. | 86001962 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 28, 1986 |
The Agee House in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, at 1804 Twelfth Avenue South, was built around 1900. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]
It is significant as the "only existing example of fully-developed Shingle style architecture in Birmingham": "The house features important features identified with the style such as an overall free form entirely covered with textured shingles, a hipped roof with multi-cross hipped dormers, a half round two-story bay with a roof which blends into the volume of the main house roofline, banded windows and wrap-around porches. Dissemination of the academic Shingle style across America during the late 19th century was widespread but never highly popular, and it is especially rare in Alabama." [2]
The house's wide eaves seem to evoke the later Prairie style, and the repeated curves presages the later Streamline Moderne style.
