Welch-Averiett House

The Welch-Averiett House, in Talladega County, Alabama near Sylacauga, Alabama, dates from 1830. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1] The listing included four contributing buildings on 44 acres (18 ha), on a land parcel of about 1,000 acres (4.0 km2).[2]

Welch-Averiett House
Photo from 2011
Welch-Averiett House is located in Alabama
Welch-Averiett House
Nearest citySylacauga, Alabama
Coordinates33°08′35″N 86°23′18″W
Area44 acres (18 ha)
Builtc.1830, c.1920
MPSBenjamin H. Averiett Houses TR
NRHP reference No.86002044[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 28, 1986

The house was built around 1920. It is a "a rambling twelve room clapboard bungalow little changed since c.1920. It has a hipped roof with broad eaves and a shed dormer decorated with angular brackets. The exterior is clapboard irregularly fenestrated with 6/6 wooden sash windows. There are four exterior brick chimneys. Two board and batten 'cabins' adjoin the rear with gabled and shed additions to the west end."[2]

It is also known as the L.L. Dean House and was known in the 1800s as Welch Spring.[2]

Other parts of the estate are older. The listing includes a rammed earth smokehouse.[2]

The original settler, Daniel Welch was living on this property by 1831.[2] The Averiett estate as a whole once had more than 10,000 acres (16 sq mi).

This was listed along with three other properties as part of a study of the estate.[3]

It is located about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Sylacauga on the north side of Alabama State Route 8, in the Fayetteville, Alabama community.[2]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Marilyn Sullivan; Tom Dolan (May 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Welch-Averiett House / L.L. Dean House; Welch Spring". National Park Service. Retrieved August 3, 2019. With accompanying 10 photos from 1985
  3. Marilyn Sullivan; Tom Dolan (May 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Benjamin H. Averiett Houses Thematic Group" (PDF). Retrieved August 3, 2019.


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