Nelson House
a.k.a. Reynolds House
Hwy. 59, North, Latham, ALThe Nelson-Reynolds House is the purest example of the Creole Cottage style of architecture in Baldwin County. It retains all the classic features of the style: recessed front porch, gable roof, interior chimneys, two front doors with no central hall and massed floor plan. Its late date, 1912, represents the persistence of this popular style on the Gulf Coast. It is also the northernmost example in Baldwin County, being just north of the thirty-first
parallel, and is thus, unusual.
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.