Walker House, 300 Center Street, Birmingham

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Jaofc Smith. Date of Breotiqn; Architect; Unknown Builder; William A. WalkerbSr., Present Condition; G-ood, number of Stories; Two. Materials of 0onetmotion: Two story frame; two story porch with four square columns; small portico with wooden balustrade; exterior brick chimneys; one story wing to the rear. Other Bxisting Records:. W HABS ALA ADA- 425 Page 2. Additional Pata: The Jack Smith House, formerly ne Walker Home, Ely ton , displays most of the essential features of Southern colonial architecture of the Greek Revival type. Originally a plantation house standing at the head of Broad Street in old Elyton, a Birmingham residential section has grown up around it, leaving the oak cluster on the knoll about the house untouched. This house was built in by William A.

Walker the residence still houses descendants of the builder* Based on hand hewn logs, the house front presents a simple yet nobly proportioned Southern colonial columned facade* Hot able* are the Asher Benjamin mouldings in the interior design, Hear the house are two graves so old that the inscription on the heavy stones has become almost obliterated, although one dimly shows the date of the year in which Alabama became a state. Source of Material; Myrtle Miles. Birmingham, Alabama. Oompiled by; Katherine ITloyd. Auburn, Alabama. m Approved: Date; B. Walter Burkhardt, A. P. I. Auburn, Alabama. to* i