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Started by Guidedawg, August 30, 2017, 02:59:32 PM

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1.   Bray-Barron House – N. Eufaula Ave.  Eufaula
2.   Cato House – 823 W. Barbour St.  Eufaula
3.   Henry D Clayton House – 1 mile s of Clayton off State Route 30  Clayton
4.   Drewry-Mitchell-Moorer House – 640 N. Eufaula Ave.  Eufaula
5.   Fendall Hall – Barbour St.  Eufaula
6.   Grace Episcopal Church – Louisville St. south of Courthouse Sq.  Clayton
7.   Kendall Manor – 534 W. Broad St.  Eufaula
8.   Kiels-McNab House – W. Washington St.  Eufaula
9.   Lore Historic District – Bounded by Eufaula Ave. & Browder, Livingson, and Barbour Sts.; also roughly bounded by Browder St., Van Buren Ave., Washington St., and Sanford Ave.  Eufaula
10.   McNab Bank Building – 201 East Broad St.  Eufaula
11.   Miller-Martin Town House – Louisville Ave.  Clayton
12.   Petty-Roberts-Beatty House – 103 N. Midway

13.   Sheppard Cottage – 504 E. Barbour St.  Eufaula
14.   Shorter Mansion – 340 N. Eufaula Ave  Eufaula
15.   Governor Chauncy Sparks House – 257 West Broad St.  Eufaula
16.   Spring Hill Methodist Church – County Rd. 89, 750ft. west of junction with County Rd 49  Spring Hill
17.   The Tavern – 105 Riverside Dr.  Eufaula
18.   Wellborn – 630 East Broad St.  Eufaula
19.   Woodlane Plantation – State Route 431, S.  Eufaula

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3.   Henry D Clayton House – 1 mile s of Clayton off State Route 30  Clayton

The Henry D. Clayton House is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Clayton on a remnant of the former 1,000-acre (400 ha) Clayton Plantation. It is accessed via the original plantation drive, extending south from SR 30 at Clayton Street. The house is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The main roof extends beyond the north facade to shelter a porch with square supports. A shed-roof porch also extends across part of the house's rear, where it joins with the kitchen ell. Outbuildings in the plantation complex include a smokehouse, carriage barn, and a small cottage used by Henry Clayton Jr. as his office.

The house was built about 1850 by Henry DeLamar Clayton, Sr., who served in the American Civil War as a general in the Confederate Army. It was the birthplace and childhood home of his son Henry Clayton Jr. The younger Clayton studied law at the University of Alabama, and embarked on a political career in the Democratic Party in 1880. In 1910, as head of the House Judiciary Committee, he successfully prosecuted the impeachment of Robert W. Archbald, a Commerce Court judge accused of profiting from his position. His best-known accomplishment was passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act, a significant amendment to the Sherman Antitrust Act.


However, the house sits far off the road, so this is as close as you are going to get uninvited





Guidedawg

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6.   Grace Episcopal Church – Louisville St. south of Courthouse Sq.  Clayton

Grace Episcopal Church is a historic church in Clayton, Alabama. It was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on January 29, 1980 and the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 1995.

This church had its origins in a mission station established by the Reverend J. L. Gay in 1844.

On May 10, 1872 the mission was formally accepted in the Diocese of Alabama as Grace Church. Construction of a church building began in 1875 on a lot owned by General Henry DeLamar Clayton and his wife Victoria. The Gothic Revival style building was completed on February 26, 1876 at which time the lot was deeded by the Claytons to the Protestant Episcopal Church of the State of Alabama. Bishop Richard J. Wilmer formally consecrated the church on November 14, 1876
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Guidedawg

11.   Miller-Martin Town House – Louisville Ave.  Clayton

The Miller-Martin Town House is a historic house in Clayton, Alabama, U.S.. It was built as a townhouse for John H. Miller in 1859, and it was designed in the Gothic Revival architectural style. In 1871, it was purchased by Judge Henry Clinton Russell, who served on Barbour County's probate court. In 1915, it was purchased by John Council Martin, who went on to serve as the mayor of Clayton from 1926 to 1930. It was later inherited by his daughter.  It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 16, 1974.





Guidedawg

12.   Petty-Roberts-Beatty House – 103 N. Midway

The Petty–Roberts–Beatty House, also known as the Octagon House, is an historic octagonal house in Clayton, Alabama, United States. The structure was one of only two antebellum octagonal houses built in Alabama and is the only one to survive.

This unusual house was built by Benjamin Franklin Petty starting in 1859 and completed in 1861. Petty was a carriage and furniture merchant who was a native of New York and pioneer settler of Clayton. The house was patterned after a design made popular by Orson Squire Fowler's book, A Home For All, or the Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building which was published in 1854.

In April 1865, the house was used as staff headquarters for Union Cavalry Commander General Benjamin H. Grierson. Petty's heirs sold the property to Judge and Mrs. Bob T. Roberts in 1901. In 1981, under the administration of Mayor Edward C. Ventress, the property was purchased from the estate of Mary Roberts Beatty Armistead by the Town of Clayton which has overseen its renovation.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1974