McMullan-Skinner House
204 Oliver St., Greenville, ALThe McMullan-Skinner House (1890) is a good local Greenville example of a vernacular house form featuring a one-and-a-half story square block with a gable roof flanked on either end by an exterior chimney and a front porch inset beneath the slope of the gable. Houses of this type built between 1840 and 1890 appear in south central Alabama. This vernacular form is related to a house type brought to Alabama from the Carolinas and Georgia.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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