Alfred Battle Home, Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa

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Linlta Eriedmaru Previous Owners; Alfred Battle. Ghas. Hopkins & 0o Friedman & Loveman* Sate of Erection; - Architect; Unknown* Bailder; Alfred Battle. Present Condition; Good* Bumper of Stories; " " Ml i'i llll.I II iifni'l. 0?wo. 'A~ Materials of tract ions 5*wo Story fcric& masonry; ^^ portico with wooden railings; six large square columns to the front porch* Other gristing Records: Source of Material; James A. Anderson and W. S. Wyman, University, Alabama Compiled Katharine Floyd, Auburn, Ala. Approved; E. Walter Burkhardt, District Officer, HABS 6: : iS?3t njUj ADDENDUM TO BATTLE-FRIEDMAN HOUSE HABS Mo. AL-226 (Alfred Battle HouseN Greensboro Ave.

Hflas Tuscaloosa ALA Tuscaloosa County &3-TUSL0, Alabama /3- WRITTEN HISTORICAL & DESCRIPTIVE DATA HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD National Park Service Department of the Interior P.O. Box Washington, ALA ADDENDUM TO 73 - BATTLE-FRIEDMAN HOUSE (Alfred Battle House) (Page 2) HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY BATTLE-FRIEDMAN HOUSE (Alfred Battle House) HABS No. AL-2 2 6

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Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Date of Construction Description: This two-story Greek Revival style house features a six-column portico across the front constructed of brick (stuccoed, scored and marbleized). Interiors feature a center- hall plan and elaborate plasterwork in two parlors, executed during the Friedman residence when formal gardens were also developed.

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This report is based on written documentation donated by the Birmingham Historical Society, reformatted to HABS/HAER guidelines. Significance House associated with prominent merchant and railroad financier, Alfred Battle and New South politician and industrialist Barnard Friedman. BATTLE-FRIEDMAN HOUSE HABS NO. AL-226 (Page 3)

Historical Overview

Built by Alfred Battle a North Carolina native who arrived in Tuscaloosa in and established a successful career in merchandising, then planting and railroading, built this two- story brick (plastered to imitate stone) house in Battle's biographer notes that he was "an owner of extensive plantations" and "influential in securing the first railroad through Tuscaloosa." (Owen, Vol. II, In Barnard Friedman, a Hungarian immigrant (in purchased the residence. Born and educated in Hungary, Barnard Friedman (d. came to America in and to Tuscaloosa in Owner and general manager of the Baugh, Kennedy and Company Cotton Mill in Cottondale, he also dealt in real estate and industrial development. He sold acres of coal lands near Vance to the Tuscaloosa Coal Iron and Land Co.

in becoming a Vice President. His great friend William Carlos Jemison served as President. While Jemison served as mayor of the city, Friedman served as alderman. Together they developed an iron furnace known as the Friedman Furnace as part of their attempts to get Tuscaloosa industry going in the late nineteenth century. Barnard Friedman's son, Hugo Friedman, gave the Battle-Friedman House to the City of Tuscaloosa in It is operated as a house museum and is open to the public. Sources Consulted HABS, Gamble, Robert, The Alabama Catalog, pp. Tuscaloosa County Site Survey, p.