12 mi. SW of Cordova on Pleasantfield-Evansbridge Rd., Cordova, Alabama. County/parish: Walker.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 24, 1972. NRIS 72000188.
1 contributing building.
The Gilchrist House was a historic farmhouse near Cordova in Walker County, Alabama. Built when Alabama was still a part of the Mississippi Territory, it was considered by architectural scholars as one of the older surviving houses in Alabama and the oldest structure in the central and western area of the state. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 24, 1972. It was destroyed by fire during the late 1990s, but the site remains listed on the National Register.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77837509