National Register Listing

Brodbeck-Zundel Historic District

US 98 Scenic Route and Old Marlow Rd., Point Clear, AL

The Brodbeck-Zundel Historic District is significant as the finest collection of Victorian cottages along the Eastern Shore, evidenced by the use of turned posts., brackets and finials. These houses are also significant for their use of a local architectural adaptation in response to climate called the rain porch, an attached shed roof porch extending
beyond a recessed gallery with posts meeting the ground.

Local significance of the district:
Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.