| Conde-Charlotte House Kirkbride House |
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| Location: | 104 Theater Street Mobile, Alabama |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1822-1849[1] |
| Architect: | Peter Hobart |
| Architectural style(s): | Federal, Greek Revival |
| Added to NRHP: | 12 December 1973[2] |
| NRHP Reference#: | 73000363[3] |
| Governing body: | Private |
The Conde-Charlotte House, also known as the Kirkbride House, is a historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama, United States. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Chester TownshipJPG|thumb|right|A federal style colonial home in Chester Township New Jersey]] Federal-style architecture occurred in the United States between 1780 The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries predominantly in northern Europe and the United States The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of Events 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II 's Persian Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The earliest section of the building, the rear kitchen wing, was built in 1822. The main section of the house was added a few decades later and is two and a half floors. The entire structure is constructed of hand-made brick with a smooth stucco plaster over the exterior. Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water [4]
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History
The house had its beginnings in 1822 as Mobile's first courthouse and city jail, and was built between the southern bastions of Fort Condé. A bastion is a structure projecting outward from the main enclosure of a Fortification, situated in both corners of a straight wall (termed curtain with the shape Fort Conde, located in Mobile Alabama, at 150 South Royal Street is a reconstruction at 4/5 scale of part of the original French Fort Condé at the site [1] The fort itself was in the process of being demolished at the time. Demolition is the opposite of Construction: the tearing-down of Buildings and other Structures It contrasts with deconstruction In 1849 the site was purchased by Jonathan Kirkbride from Mount Holly in New Jersey and the old courthouse and jail were converted into a kitchen wing, attached to the newly built main house. Mount Holly Township is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States as well as an eastern suburb of Philadelphia. New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. [5] The residence would remain in the Kirkbride family until 1905, when it was purchased by B. J. Bishop. [4] The site was purchased by the Historic Mobile Preservation Society in 1940 and a partial restoration was undertaken. It was during this time that the outlines of four of the old jail cells were discovered in the kitchen wing. The restoration would later be completed by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America is an American organization composed of women who are descended from an ancestor "who came to reside in an American [1]
Description
The house was originally built in the Federal style and was later altered to reflect the Greek Revival style. Chester TownshipJPG|thumb|right|A federal style colonial home in Chester Township New Jersey]] Federal-style architecture occurred in the United States between 1780 The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries predominantly in northern Europe and the United States It has a two-story portico on the front elevation featuring brick Doric columns on the lower level and wooden Corinthian columns on the upper level. The Doric order was one of the three '''orders''' or organizational systems of Ancient Greek or Classical architecture; the other two Canonical The Corinthian order is one of the Classical orders of Greek and Roman Architecture, characterized The house is 45 feet (13. 7 m) wide at the front southern elevation, 72 feet (21. 9 m) long at the eastern elevation, and 90 feet (27. 4 m) long at the western elevation, including the carriage house. The ground floor is 10 feet (3. 0 m) high from floor to ceiling and the upper story is 9 feet (2. 7 m) high. The overall structure is brick with stucco, with the front upper portico, rear galleries, and trim in wood. [4]
Urban renewal
The Conde-Charlotte house and its surroundings became isolated from the rest of the city with the construction of Interstate 10 and urban renewal. Interstate 10 ( I-10) is the southernmost east-west coast-to-coast Interstate highway in the United States. Urban Renewal (similar to Urban Regeneration in British English) is a controversial U Most of the surrounding neighborhood, one of the oldest in Mobile, was demolished to make way for the interstate project. The most notable section of the neighborhood that was destroyed was the early multi-storied townhouses of Bloodgood's Row along Monroe Street. The new construction left only a small one block section of Theatre, Monroe, and Saint Emanuel streets intact afterwards, surrounded by a circle of interstate and its associated entrance and exit ramps. With the foundations of Fort Condé being discovered during tunnel construction, a replica fort was rebuilt on the old site after the George Wallace Tunnel was finished. The George Wallace Tunnel is a Tunnel along Interstate 10 in Mobile Alabama that crosses beneath the Mobile River. The fort is now a backdrop to the Conde-Charlotte house. In recent years the city has made attempts to develop this area into "Fort Condé Village", which has seen the relocation and restoration of period appropriate buildings and the addition of brick streets and gas street lamps.
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References
- ^ a b c "Conde-Charlotte Museum House". "Conde-Charlotte Museum House (Official Site)". Retrieved on 2007-01-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers invading the Roman Empire.
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2008-03-06). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of
- ^ "Alabama: Mobile County ". "Nationalhistoricalregister. com". Retrieved on 2007-01-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers invading the Roman Empire.
- ^ a b c "Jonathan Kirkbride House". "Library of Congress: Historic American Buildings Survey". Retrieved on 2007-01-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers invading the Roman Empire.
- ^ Hammond, Ralph. Ante-Bellum Mansions of Alabama. , page 172. New York: Architectural Book Publishers, 1951. ISBN 0517020750
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