This beautiful two-story, home was built circa 1900. Features of the house include a complex roofline, corner tower with a conical roof, central doubl …
The exact age of this house is not known, but it dates back well into the antebellum period. One of the owners of this home was a Mr. Chadwick who di …
Dr. Gaston Drake, a planter and local physician, purchased this property in 1849 and had a house built on it. The house was destroyed by fire before …
This is a charming one-story Victorian cottage with Eastlake details that’s located on Greensboro’s Main Street. This house was built around 1890. Fea …
There may be no home in the Black Belt with more history attached to it than this one. It was built in 1828 – 1829 by John Gayle, a South Carolina nat …
The Greensboro Opera House was built in 1903 on the site of an earlier opera house. The original, built in the 1890s, had burned the preceding year. A …
Hale County had a legal obligation to provide an animal shelter for the county but had no resources to build it. In 2005, Hale County representatives …
Hale County was created in 1867 with most of it being taken from Greene County. Greensboro was selected as the county seat. Greensboro citizens had …
This building is located on Main Street at downtown Greenboro near the courthouse. It dates back to the 1870s and served in the late 1800s as a law of …
This beautiful house was built around 1845 by a prosperous Greensboro merchant tailor named Philip Happel. This two-story home has both upper and low …
The Harvey house, also referred to as Seven Pines, was built circa 1848 by Col J. G. Harvey, long-time editor of the Alabama Beacon. This house has a …
This two-story Queen Anne style house was built circa 1900. Features of the house include a hip roof with gables, front facing gable with one story ba …
This two-story Victorian home was built circa 1900. Features of the house include a hip roof with gables, five bay facade with recessed side wing, cen …
This house was originally built circa 1840 as a one story Italianate cottage. The second story and Victorian details were added to the house around th …
In 2004 the Lions Club, the City of Greensboro, Hale County, the Riding Club and the Greensboro Baseball Association formed a joint committee to manag …
This was the only house known to have been built in this area during the Civil War. It was constructed in 1861 as a residence for Nathaniel T. Lupton, …
Magnolia Grove, an excellent example of temple-style Greek Revival architecture, was built around 1840 as a town house by Isaac and Sarah Croom, whose …
Magnolia Hall, also known as the McCrary-Otts House, is a historic Greek Revival mansion in Greensboro. It is listed on the National Register of Hist …
Originally an I-house, this structure served as a school for Miss Adeline Morse, a New England schoolteacher. Judge W.C. Christian purchased the struc …
The Noel-Ramsey home (also referred to as the Old French House) is the oldest home in Greensboro. Constructed between 1819-21 by Thomas and Anne Hurte …
The Old Hale County Jail served Hale County from its completion in 1908 until 1999, when it was replaced by the modern Hale County Corrections facilit …
John Straiton, a graduate of Emory University, was Greensboro’s most prolific builder during the late 1800s and early 1900s. He is responsible for the …
This two-story, vernacular Victorian house was built circa 1890. Features of the house include complex roofline and massing, central double leaf entra …
Southern University was founded in Greensboro by the Methodists in 1856. This school prospered during the 1800s. In 1918, it merged with Birmingham So …
This home was built circa 1890 by Governor and Mrs. Thomas Seay. Thomas Seay was a native of Hale County. He began his political career in 1874 when h …
This 2 ½ story house, with its complex roof line and façade arrangement, is one of the most detailed dwellings in Greensboro. The first floor features …
This house, located on the eastern end of Main Street, is unlike any other in Greensboro. A picturesque raised cottage with charming exterior features …
This parish, established in 1830, is the third oldest in the Alabama diocese. This church was erected in 1840 and consecrated in 1843 by Leonidas Pol …
On the night of March 21, 1968, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sought refuge from the Ku Klux Klan inside a small, shotgun-style home in the depot neighb …
In 1840, Dr. James Levi Tunstall, a prominent physician and planter, purchased a smaller home located on this property. He and his wife, Eliza Croom T …
This house was built circa 1898 by Greensboro’s most prolific builder of the 1890s and early 1900s, John Straiton. It is one of the most imposing Quee …
This beautiful antebellum home was constructed circa 1855 for Col. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus DeYampert as a gift to his daughter, Julia, and her husb …