Orange Vale

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Lawler-Whiting House

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Location AL 21 S of Talladega, Talladega, Alabama
Coordinates 33°21′27″N86°9′56″W / 33.35750°N 86.16556°W / 33.35750; -86.16556 Coordinates: 33°21′27″N86°9′56″W / 33.35750°N 86.16556°W / 33.35750; -86.16556
Area 107 acres (43 ha)
Built 1852 (1852)
Architect Kirkland,H.H.
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference # 86001157 [1]
Added to NRHP May 22, 1986

Orange Vale, also known as the Lawler-Whiting House, is a Greek Revival plantation house completed in 1854 near Talladega, Alabama. The house is principally associated with Levi Lawler, an Alabama state legislator. The house was the centerpiece of a 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) cotton plantation. It was principally used by Lawler during the summer. The house is a formal two-story frame structure with a hexastyle square-columned portico across the front, supporting a heavy paneled entablature. There is no pediment. The hipped roof is flanked by interior chimneys. Small flat-roofed one-story pavilions flank the house on either side and extend beyond the rear of the house.The rear has two-level porches across the width. The interior has a center-hall plan with the hall extending to the back porch. 108 acres (44 ha) remain of the original property, with seven other buildings. [2]

Greek Revival architecture architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture. The term was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in a lecture he gave as Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1842.

Talladega, Alabama City in Alabama, United States

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Orange Vale was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1986. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Qualls, Shirley (January 15, 1986). "Lawler-Whiting House". National Park Service. Retrieved 30 November 2015.