Conde-Charlotte House

Conde-Charlotte House
Kirkbride House
Conde-Charlotte House is located in Alabama
Location: 104 Theater Street
Mobile, Alabama
Coordinates: 30°41′16.97″N 88°2′23.02″W / 30.6880472°N 88.0397278°W / 30.6880472; -88.0397278Coordinates: 30°41′16.97″N 88°2′23.02″W / 30.6880472°N 88.0397278°W / 30.6880472; -88.0397278
Built: 1822-1849[2]
Architect: Peter Hobart
Architectural style: Federal, Greek Revival
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 73000363[1]
Added to NRHP: 12 December 1973[3]

The Conde-Charlotte House, also known as the Kirkbride House, is a historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The earliest section of the building, the rear kitchen wing, was built in 1822. The main section of the house was added a few decades later and is two and a half floors. The entire structure is constructed of hand-made brick with a smooth stucco plaster over the exterior.[4]

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History

The house had its beginnings in 1822 as Mobile's first courthouse and city jail, and was built between the southern bastions of Fort Condé.[2] The fort itself was in the process of being demolished at the time. In 1849 the site was purchased by Jonathan Kirkbride from Mount Holly in New Jersey and the old courthouse and jail were converted into a kitchen wing, attached to the newly built main house.[5] The residence would remain in the Kirkbride family until 1905, when it was purchased by B.J. Bishop.[4] The site was purchased by the Historic Mobile Preservation Society in 1940 and a partial restoration was undertaken. It was during this time that the outlines of four of the old jail cells were discovered in the kitchen wing. The restoration would later be completed by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.[2]

Description

Conde-Charlotte House in 1936.

The house was originally built in the Federal style and was later altered to reflect the Greek Revival style. It has a two-story portico on the front elevation featuring brick Doric columns on the lower level and wooden Corinthian columns on the upper level.

The house is 45 feet (13.7 m) wide at the front southern elevation, 72 feet (21.9 m) long at the eastern elevation, and 90 feet (27.4 m) long at the western elevation, including the carriage house. The ground floor is 10 feet (3.0 m) high from floor to ceiling and the upper story is 9 feet (2.7 m) high. The overall structure is brick with stucco, with the front upper portico, rear galleries, and trim in wood.[4]

Urban renewal

Bloodgood's Row on Monroe Street before demolition.

The Conde-Charlotte house and its surroundings became isolated from the rest of the city with the construction of Interstate 10 and urban renewal. Most of the surrounding neighborhood, one of the oldest in Mobile, was demolished to make way for the interstate project. The most notable section of the neighborhood that was destroyed was the early multi-storied townhouses of Bloodgood's Row along Monroe Street. The new construction left only a small one block section of Theatre, Monroe, and Saint Emanuel streets intact afterward, surrounded by a circle of interstate and its associated entrance and exit ramps. With the foundations of Fort Condé being discovered during tunnel construction, a replica fort was rebuilt on the old site after the George Wallace Tunnel was finished. The fort is now a backdrop to the Conde-Charlotte house. In recent years the city has made attempts to develop this area into "Fort Condé Village", which has seen the relocation and restoration of period appropriate buildings and the addition of brick streets and gas street lamps.

References

  1. ^ "Alabama: Mobile County". "Nationalhistoricalregister.com". http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/al/mobile/state2.html. Retrieved 2007-01-02. 
  2. ^ a b c "Conde-Charlotte Museum House". "Conde-Charlotte Museum House (Official Site)". http://www.angelfire.com/al2/condecharlotte/. Retrieved 2007-01-02. 
  3. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-03-06. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  4. ^ a b c "Jonathan Kirkbride House". "Library of Congress: Historic American Buildings Survey". http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.al0497. Retrieved 2007-01-02. 
  5. ^ Hammond, Ralph. Ante-Bellum Mansions of Alabama., page 172. New York: Architectural Book Publishers, 1951. ISBN 0517020750

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