Rosemount | |
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Rosemount_Plantation_01.jpg) The front (south) elevation of Rosemount in 1934 | |
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| Nearest city | Forkland, Alabama |
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| Coordinates | 32°40′16″N 87°54′28″W / 32.67111°N 87.90778°W |
| Built | 1832-55 |
| Architect | Allen Glover |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 71000099[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 27, 1971 |
Rosemount is a historic plantation house near Forkland, Alabama. The Greek Revival style house was built in stages between 1832 and the 1850s by the Glover family. The house has been called the "Grand Mansion of Alabama."[2][3] The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 27, 1971.[1] The Glover family enslaved over 300 people from 1830 until 1860.[4]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Hammond, Ralph (1951). Ante-bellum mansions of Alabama. New York: Architectural Book Company. pp. 104–105. ISBN 0-517-02075-0.
- ^ Brown, Virginia Pounds; Akens, Helen Morgan (1967). Alabama heritage. Huntsville, Alabama: Strode Publishers. p. 114.
- ^ "Rosemount Plantation". 24 June 2017.