Ashe Cottage
Demopolis, United States
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Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Ashe Cottage in Demopolis, Alabama, is a rare surviving example of American residential Gothic Revival architecture. Originally built in 1832, the house was expanded and remodeled in 1858 by William Cincinnatus Ashe, a physician from North Carolina, transforming it into a 1½-story wood-frame Carpenter Gothic structure. Its distinctive front elevation features two semi-octagonal gabled bays flanking an inset one-story porch, all trimmed with delicate bargeboards derived from Samuel Sloan's 1852 publication *The Model Architect*. The paired-gable design exemplifies a rare subtype found in only about five percent of American Gothic Revival houses; Ashe Cottage stands as one of merely twenty such residential examples remaining in Alabama. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1975, it represents a significant vernacular interpretation of the Gothic Revival style.
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- Built
- Type
- house
- Heritage
- listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Demopolis, United States
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