McKinney, Sarah Amanda Trott, House
a.k.a. Langston House;Six Mile Post Office;Farrington,John Frost,Ho
AL 25 between Montevallo and Centreville, Six Mile, ALConstructed c. 1885, the McKinney House is a good and intact local example of a "four-over-four" frame farmhouse with some Classical embellishments. "Four-over-four", as locally defined, is a two-story residence with a central hall
plan flanked on each side by two rooms of equal size. Since the four-room configuration is duplicated on the second level as well, the building is often referred to as having a "four-over-four" plan. The McKinney House was, and still is, the only two-story residence in the area designed with this plan.
Except for the removal of one interior wall, it remains in essentially original condition, although the gabled portico over the center section of the front porch appears to be later (possibly dating from the 1940's). Sited near
the road just across the Six Mile Creek bridge and adjacent to the Academy grounds, the McKinney House is one of the few remaining resources in Six Mile, a once thriving Bibb County community.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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.