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Ashe Cottage

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Built
  
1832; 1858

Designated ARLH
  
August 22, 1975

Area
  
4,000 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
78000502

Opened
  
1832

Added to NRHP
  
19 October 1978

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Location
  
307 North Commissioners AvenueDemopolis, Alabama

Architectural styles
  
Similar
  
Curtis House, Glover Mausoleum, Demopolis Public School, Lyon Hall, Demopolis Town Square

Ashe Cottage, also known as the Ely House, is a historic Carpenter Gothic house in Demopolis, Alabama. It was built in 1832 and expanded and remodeled in the Gothic Revival style in 1858 by William Cincinnatus Ashe, a physician from North Carolina. The cottage is a 1 12-story wood-frame building, the front elevation features two semi-octagonal gabled front bays with a one-story porch inset between them. The gables and porch are trimmed with bargeboards in a design taken from Samuel Sloan's plan for "An Old English Cottage" in his 1852 publication, The Model Architect. The house is one of only about twenty remaining residential examples of Gothic Revival architecture remaining in the state. Other historic Gothic Revival residences in the area include Waldwic in Gallion and Fairhope Plantation in Uniontown. Ashe Cottage was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on August 22, 1975 and to the National Register of Historic Places on 19 October 1978.

The Ashe House is given as one of four examples of the paired-gable subtype of Gothic Revival houses in A Field Guide to American Houses (1984). It is noted as having "very delicate lace-like porches and vergeboard details." Paired gables appear in about five percent of Gothic Revival houses in America.

References

Ashe Cottage Wikipedia


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