Pope-Spragins House, 407 Echols Avenue, Huntsville

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This most noted Huntsville house has a very prom- inent location on the top of the highest hill, in back of the famous Huntsville Spring, overlooking the portion of present Huntsville between the foot of the hill and the spring, and the extensive Tennessee Valley. With this in view, the designer-builder, Mr. George Steele, must have forced the unusual front which this house possesses. The truncated pediment with wood balustrade is one of the rare pediment motives. The semi- circular window and the arrised pediment cornice are of unusual treatment. The right side has a unique use of a side en- trance., made necessary, no doubt, by the rapid falling off of the hillside from the front portico. The interior details are fine in character, but nothing unusual, as the exterior might suggest.

One story slave quarters are still in existence in the rear of the building. MAroK, Aftctf. OF Efl*LY /Ue . fe^<5-, FL ^ Source of Material; E. Walter Burkhardt, District Administrator, HABS. Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Pat Jones, Historic Homes, published in the Huntsville Times, August 28, Howard Major, The Domestic Architecture of the Early American Republic, the Greek Revival, Lippincott, (Revised at HABS Headquarters Feb. 13, - (Original sheet in field notebook)