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Waldwic

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Waldwic is a Carpenter Gothic plantation house and historic district on Alabama Highway 69 near Gallion in Hale County, Alabama, built as a modest farmhouse in 1840 for Robert Gracey and enlarged into its present Gothic Revival form in 1852 using designs adapted from William H. Ranlett's pattern books. The carpentry was executed by enslaved craftsmen Peter Lee and Joe Glasgow, and the house served as headquarters of a forced-labor farm; an 1860 census recorded 127 people enslaved there under Gracey's widow and her second husband, Willis Bocock. It is one of about twenty Gothic Revival houses surviving in Alabama and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Building Type
Plantation House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Alabama, United States 2
Completed Year
1840 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
Building Type (category)
Plantation 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
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Carpenter Gothic, Styles and Movements
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1. Waldwic (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldwic, lead definition
    Waldwic is a historic Carpenter Gothic plantation house and historic district located on the west side of Alabama Highway 69, south of Gallion, Alabama, United States.
  • Lead section
    Waldwic is a historic Carpenter Gothic plantation house and historic district located on the west side of Alabama Highway 69, south of Gallion, Alabama, United States.
  • History
    The house for Robert Gracey started in 1840 as "an unpretentious galleried farmhouse" and was then expanded and renovated in the Gothic Revival style in 1852.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Plantation house)
    Waldwic is a historic Carpenter Gothic plantation house and historic district located on the west side of Alabama Highway 69, south of Gallion, Alabama, United States. Built as the main residence and headquarters of a forced-labor farm worked by enslaved people, Waldwic is included in the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission. Th
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2. Waldwic (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Alabama, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Alabama, United States
Wikidata item Q7961654, property P131/P17 (location): Alabama, United States
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