William King Beck House

Alabama, United States

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The William King Beck House, also known as River Bluff Plantation, is a Greek Revival cottage located on the Alabama River near Camden, Alabama, and was built in 1845 for William King Beck, an attorney and North Carolina native who settled in Wilcox County during the 1820s. Attributed to architect Alexander J. Bragg, the one-story wood-frame structure features six octagonal columns supporting a full-width front porch beneath the main roof—a distinctive hallmark of the Greek Revival Cottage style. The building's original hipped roof was replaced with a pyramidal roof in the late nineteenth century. Beck was the nephew of William Rufus King, the thirteenth Vice President of the United States. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 1993.