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General Robert Lee Bullard House, U.S. Route 431 (State Route 37), Oak Bowery

General Robert Lee Bullard House, U.S. Route 431 (State Route 37), Oak Bowery, Chambers County, AL. Surveyed as HABS ALA,9-OKBO,1-, with a 367-word written history.

From the record

“General Robert Lee Bullard House, U.S. Route 431 (State Route 37), Oak Bowery, Chambers County, AL”

Survey record header. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS ALA,9-OKBO,1- · the record runs 367 words · one of 30 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

DESCRIPTION

96 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS ALA,9-OKBO,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

The two-storey porch of this old house of Greek Revival type has square fluted columns and an architrave with rectangular sunken panels. The balcony inside the porch has a delicate lattice railing and turned posts. The roof is low-pitched and hipped* The tin heads of the rain conductors bear the date of erection of the building. A detail of the head is shown on the Historic American Buildings Survey drawings. Source of Material; E. Walter Burkhardt, District Administrator, HABS. Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. (Revised at HABS Headquarters Feb. 7, - (Original paper in field notebook)

In context

Oak Bowery, Alabama The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Chambers County, Alabama 60 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Chambers County

24 of 29 records shown

The federal survey recorded these other structures elsewhere in Chambers County. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Textile Industry in ValleyHAER AL-16519,641 words
Hightower BuildingHABS ALA,9-LAFA,4-6,637 words
Andrews HouseHABS ALA,9-LAFA,3-38 words
Betty McLemore HouseHABS ALA,9-LAFA,1-38 words
A. A. Tatum HouseHABS ALA,9-LAFA,2-38 words
129 GI Street (House)HAER AL-17837 words
25 Middle Street (House)HAER AL-17636 words
5703 Sixteenth Avenue (House)HAER AL-17534 words
3602 Twenty-fourth Avenue (House)HAER AL-17734 words
Riverdale Cotton MillHAER AL-166-B4 words
Riverdale Cotton MillHAER AL-166-C2 words
Riverdale Cotton MillHAER AL-166-D2 words
Langdale Cotton MillHAER AL-167-B2 words
Langdale Cotton MillHAER AL-167-C2 words
507 Davidson Street (House)HAER AL-1711 word
35 Middle Street (House)HAER AL-1721 word
2313 Thirty-first Street (House)HAER AL-1731 word
3010 Twenty-third Street (House)HAER AL-1741 word
Riverdale Cotton MillHAER AL-166no text held
Riverdale Cotton MillHAER AL-166-Ano text held
Langdale Cotton MillHAER AL-167no text held
Langdale Cotton MillHAER AL-167-Ano text held
Crestview BallparkHAER AL-168no text held
Langdale AuditoriumHAER AL-169no text held

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HABS ALA,9-OKBO,1-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
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