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Borden Oaks

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Borden Oaks is a Federal-style plantation house and historic district near Greensboro, Alabama, built in 1835 by John Scott Gray and his wife Martha Thompson on land given by her father, and originally called Locust Lawn until Martha's 1845 remarriage to Richard Benjamin Borden. The two-story frame house has a hipped roof, a five-bay facade, and a central two-tiered porch with doorways drawing on Asher Benjamin's 1833 pattern book The Practice of Architecture, and a matching two-story rear addition. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 7, 1994, as part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake multiple property listing, and its porch has since been rebuilt using salvaged columns. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building Type
Plantation House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Alabama, United States 2
Completed Year
1835 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
Building Type (category)
Plantation 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Connections

Has Building Type

House, Concepts
Plantation House, Concepts

In Style

Federal Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Borden Oaks (Wikipedia)

Uses Element

Timber, Architectural Materials
Source Borden Oaks (Wikipedia)
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Located In

United States

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Source Borden Oaks (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Borden Oaks (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 7, 1994 as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.
  • History
    Initially named Locust Lawn, the main house at Borden Oaks was built in 1835 by John Scott Gray and his wife, Martha Thompson Cocke Gray, on property given to them by Martha's father.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Plantation house)
    Borden Oaks is a plantation house and historic district near Greensboro, Alabama, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 7, 1994 as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.
  • Uses Element: Timber, Article text
    The house is a two-story frame Federal-style structure with a hipped roof.
  • In Style: Federal Architecture, Infobox: architecture
    Federal; I-house
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2. Borden Oaks (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 Q4944504, property P131/P17 (location): Alabama, United States
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