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The Summerfield District is a 56.2-acre (22.7 ha) historic district in Summerfield, Dallas County, Alabama. It is bounded by the Selma-Summerfield and Marion roads, and Centenary and College streets. Federal and Greek Revival are the primary architectural styles in the district. It contains 10 contributing properties and 6 noncontributing ...
"A frame residence of eight rooms, one of the first homes of so pretentious forms in that country," [9] built by H. A. Tayloe, who co-owned it and was later bought out by brother George P Tayloe, who then passed it on to his son John William Tayloe, who designed Hawthorne (Prairieville, Alabama) and married Miss Lucie Randolph of "Oakleigh ...
The apartments were designed with an upstairs laundry room that employed an attendant. The building was designed with a flat top roof and an outside covered play area for children. The bedrooms were ten-by-twelve foot. The living rooms were twelve-by-seventeen-foot, and the dining rooms were eight-by-thirteen foot.
Summerfield, also known as Valley Creek, is an unincorporated community in Dallas County, Alabama. [2] Summerfield has one historic district included on the National Register of Historic Places, the Summerfield District. [3] Most of the community was annexed into Valley Grande following its incorporation as a city in 2003. [4]
The Main Street Commercial District is a historic district in Dothan, Alabama, United States. The district covers 18 acres (7 ha) and portions of 6 blocks in Dothan's historic commercial district. At the time of the nomination, it contained 68 contributing properties, however many have been demolished in the intervening years.
360° panorama. Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (better known as The Peacock Room [1]) is a work of interior decorative art created by James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll, translocated to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Whistler painted the paneled room in a unified palette of blue-greens with over-glazing and metallic gold leaf.
Houston County is a county located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census the population was 107,202. [1] Its county seat is Dothan, which is located on the border and partially in adjacent Henry County. [2] Houston County is part of the Dothan, Alabama metropolitan area.
Gold ground (both a noun and adjective) or gold-ground (adjective) is a term in art history for a style of images with all or most of the background in a solid gold colour. Historically, real gold leaf has normally been used, giving a luxurious appearance.