William Lanford House

Huntsville, United States

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The William Lanford House is a Greek Revival residence built in 1850 in Huntsville, Alabama, situated on fifty-two acres between Indian Creek and Cummings Research Park. William Lanford, a Virginia native whose father was an early land speculator in the region, constructed the house after purchasing nearly two thousand acres in 1843. The building exhibits well-proportioned Greek Revival form distinguished by a double-height tetrastyle portico with four Doric-capitaled boxed columns on a brick base, a gently sloped gable roof, and a Federal-style sunburst fanlight above the front entrance. Six-over-six sash windows with Palladianesque sidelights pierce the exterior, while the interior features a central hall with two rooms flanking each side; the walls of the front rooms contain folding panels designed to create one large entertaining space. The house passed through several families—including Lanford's daughter Mary and her husband, physician John R. Slaughter, who later practiced medicine there, and merchant William Olin Camper in 1919—and received a mid-twentieth-century addition. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, the house remains a significant example of antebellum architecture in North Alabama.