Bishop Portier House

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location= 307 Conti Street
Mobile, Alabama, Alabama
lat_degrees = 30
lat_minutes = 41
lat_seconds = 23.34
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 88
long_minutes = 2
long_seconds = 42.07
long_direction = W
locmapin = Alabama
area =
built =1834
architect=Claude Beroujon
architecture= Creole cottage with Federal details.
added = February 26, 1970cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-03-11|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
owner = Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile
refnum=70000109The Bishop Portier House, is located on the southeast corner of Conti Street, at Claiborne Street, in Mobile, Alabama, United States, diagonally across from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and facing Cathedral Square. It is owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile. The house, built circa 1834, is perhaps Mobile's best surviving example of a Creole cottage, with classic details. [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.al0541 Bishop Michael Portier House, Historic American Building Survey, Library of Congress] ]

History

The house is named for Michael Portier, Mobile's first Roman Catholic bishop, who made this his home from 1834, until his death in 1859. The house was designed by Claude Beroujon, a seminarian architect and nephew of Portier.cite web|title="Historic Roman Catholic Properties in Mobile MPS"|work="National Register Information System"|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/multiples/64500007.pdf|accessdate=2008-03-11] Four subsequent bishops resided here until 1906. Fr. Abram Ryan, poet-priest of the South, occupied the northwest corner room on the second floor from 1870, until 1877. The residence was restored by the archdiocese in 1958, and again in 2007. In 1970, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Description

The structure is frame with clapboarding, and plastered gallery. It is one and one-half stories, with a square plan, and a center hall running from front to rear. It has a gabled roof encompassing full-length galleries, front and rear, on slender columns. There are three ornate dormers with classical detail. The center entrance is framed by pilasters, entablature, transom, and side lights.

ee also

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

References