Cedar Crest (Faunsdale, Alabama)

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nearest_city= Faunsdale, Alabama
lat_degrees = 32
lat_minutes = 25
lat_seconds = 41
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 87
long_minutes = 39
long_seconds = 37
long_direction = W
locmapin = Alabama
area =
built =1850
architect= Unknown
architecture= Greek Revival
added = August 05, 1993
governing_body = Private
mpsub=Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS [http://www.nr.nps.gov/multiples/64500009.pdf Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS] NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 6 March 2008.]
refnum=93000763cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Cedar Crest, also known as Cedar Crest Farms, is a Greek Revival plantation house located near Faunsdale, Alabama. It was built for Kimbrough C. Dubose in 1850 by Albert Prince, a slave. The house is one-and-a-half stories with side gables, but has been greatly altered. It originally had side wings and a porch around the front and sides, but these were removed in 1939 and replaced with a small front portico. Another historic plantation house, Altwood, was moved from a nearby location to the Cedar Crest grounds in 1988.Marengo County Heritage Book Committee: "The heritage of Marengo County, Alabama", page 15. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2000. ISBN 189164758X] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 05, 1993 as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings multiple property submission.

ee also

*National Register of Historic Places listings in Marengo County, Alabama

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