Kendall Manor
534 W. Broad St., Eufaula, ALLocated in Eufaula along the Chattahoochee River, Kendall Manor is a fine example of Italianate architecture. The home, completed in 1867, was elaborately built and furnishes an excellent example of the rare merchant-planter whose prosperity continued after the Civil War.
The house was built as a residence for James Turner Kendall, a merchant and planter who came to Alabama from Virginia in the middle of the 19th century.
Work on the house was begun shortly before the war by a local contractor-architect H. George Whipple. It is likely that Whipple supplied the plans for the house as he designed many of Eufaula's fine houses. When the Civil War broke out, construction on the house was halted.
During the war military action did not extend to Eufaula and the house was unharmed. Apparently Kendall did not suffer a great financial loss like many of the planters of the era as he completed his home at a great expense. It is reputed that he kept an expense account of the house until it reached $30,000. Before the house was completed the cost ran far beyond that.
The home has remained in the hands of the Kendall family.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
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