Graydon House
507 Cedar St., Greenville, ALThe Graydon House (c1909) is an excellent local example of a South Alabama vernacular house type featuring a square, symmetrical, exterior form with a high-hipped roof and a wrap-around porch. This house form occurs throughout the southern portion of the state, but it is particularly prevalent in the southeastern region. The basic form initially appeared in c1880 and continued to be built until c1915. Various stylistic architectural porch detailing occurs on these houses including Eastlake and Queen Anne Victorian, Colonial Revival, and early Bungalow decorative elements. The Graydon House has very fine slender Victorian-turned columns with scroll-saved brackets.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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