Drewry-Mitchell-Moorer House
640 N. Eufaula Ave., Eufaula, ALThe Drewry-Mitchell-Moorer House is one of several outstanding Italianate mansions located along the Chattahoochee River in Southeast Alabama.
This house, which is exceptionally fine for its period, was built in 1867 for Dr. John Drewry. A native of Georgia and a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, he immigrated into lower Alabama in the early forties, first settling at Old Spring Hill then later moving to Eufaula in 1848.
Like many early doctors he owned his own apothecary shop. He specialized in obstetrics and fever cases, gaining for himself a reputation as one of the most successful typhoid fever doctors in the area. At one point his office and home were turned into a temporary hospital during an outbreak of fever.
Drewry left the house to his two daughters, Mrs. Stella Guice and Mrs. Lilly Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell deeded the house to her son, A. C. Mitchell, who in turn left it to his daughter, Mrs. W. D. Moorer, the present owner and occupant.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
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