Ashe Cottage
National Register of Historic Places

Ashe Cottage

Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama
Listed
October 18, 1978
Type
Building
Period
Early Republic
Ref No.
78000502

About this property

Ashe Cottage, also known as the Ely House, is a historic Carpenter Gothic house in Demopolis, Alabama. It was built in 1832 and expanded and remodeled in the Gothic Revival style in 1858 by William Cincinnatus Ashe, a physician from North Carolina. The cottage is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame building, the front elevation features two semi-octagonal gabled front bays with a one-story porch inset between them. The gables and porch are trimmed with bargeboards in a design taken from Samuel Sloan's plan for "An Old English Cottage" in his 1852 publication, The Model Architect. The house is one of only about twenty remaining residential examples of Gothic Revival architecture remaining in the state. Other historic Gothic Revival residences in the area include Waldwic in Gallion and Fairhope Plantation in Uniontown. Ashe Cottage was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on August 22, 1975, and to the National Register of Historic Places on 19 October 1978. The Ashe House is given as one of four examples of the paired-gable subtype of Gothic Revival houses in A Field Guide to American Houses (1984). It is noted as having "very delicate lace-like porches and vergeboard details." Paired gables appear in about five percent of Gothic Revival houses in America.

Location

307 N. Commissioners Ave.
Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama
32.51930, -87.84030

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Nearby Historic Sites

Demopolis Historic Business District
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0.1 mi
US Post Office
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0.2 mi
Confederate Park
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Demopolis Historic District (Boundary Increase)
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When was Ashe Cottage listed on the National Register?

Ashe Cottage was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1978.

What type of historic resource is Ashe Cottage?

Ashe Cottage is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Ashe Cottage?

The period of significance for Ashe Cottage is recorded as the early_republic era, specifically around 1832.

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