Off AL 39, Gainesville, Alabama. County/parish: Sumter.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 03, 1985. NRIS 85002924.
Part of Gainesville MRA (NRIS 64000015).
1 contributing building.
Colgin Hill is a historic house in Gainesville, Sumter County, Alabama. The one-story structure began as a log dogtrot house for William Colgin in 1832. The breezeway was enclosed, creating a center hall, and Greek Revival details added within a couple of decades of the initial construction. It serves as an example of the transition in Alabama from the frontier to a more refined society. Historians consider it to be the oldest extant building in Gainesville. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1985.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77835572