Orange Vale

Orange Vale, also known as the Lawler-Whiting House, is a Greek Revival plantation house completed in 1854 near Talladega, Alabama. The house was the centerpiece of a 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) cotton plantation, a forced-labor farm worked by black people enslaved by the land's white owners.

Lawler-Whiting House
1939 HABS image
Orange Vale is located in Alabama
Orange Vale
Orange Vale is located in the United States
Orange Vale
LocationAL 21 S of Talladega, Talladega, Alabama
Coordinates33°21′27″N 86°9′56″W
Area107 acres (43 ha)
Built1852 (1852)
ArchitectKirkland, H.H.
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.86001157[1]
Added to NRHPMay 22, 1986

The house is principally associated with Levi Lawler, an Alabama state legislator, who principally used it during the summer. The house is a formal two-story frame structure with a hexastyle square-columned portico across the front, supporting a heavy paneled entablature. There is no pediment. The hipped roof is flanked by interior chimneys. Small flat-roofed one-story pavilions flank the house on either side and extend beyond the rear of the house. The rear has two-level porches across the width. The interior has a center-hall plan with the hall extending to the back porch. 108 acres (44 ha) remain of the original property, with seven other buildings.[2]

Orange Vale was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1986.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Qualls, Shirley (January 15, 1986). "Lawler-Whiting House". National Park Service. Retrieved November 30, 2015.

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