John W. Elliott House
The John W. Elliott House is a historic house in Eutaw, Alabama. The Creole cottage style structure was built in 1850 by Jesse Gibson for John Williams Elliott, a watchmaker and jeweler.[2] Elliott was born in 1814 in Litchfield County, Connecticut. He migrated to Eutaw around 1840.[3] Elliott married Louisa Elizabeth Towner, a teacher and native of Rutland County, Vermont, in 1843. They had three children, all born and raised in Eutaw. Louisa died in 1853.[4] John then married Blanche Smith Chapman, a native of Virginia, in 1858. The Elliott family left Eutaw prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War and relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where John Elliott died in 1888.[3] The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Antebellum Homes in Eutaw Thematic Resource on April 2, 1982, due to its architectural significance.[1] It has been moved elsewhere since listing. The site is now a parking lot.[5]
John W. Elliott House | |
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| Location | 244 Prairie Street Eutaw, Alabama, United States |
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| Coordinates | 32°50′17″N 87°53′3″W |
| Built | 1850 |
| Architect | Jesse Gibson |
| Architectural style | Creole cottage |
| MPS | Antebellum Homes in Eutaw Thematic Resource |
| NRHP reference No. | 82002018[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 2, 1982 |
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- "Walking and Driving Guide to Historic Eutaw Alabama". Greene County Historic Society. Magnolias and Peaches website. Archived from the original on 2009-02-14. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
- Emerson, Wilimena H. (1905). Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians, 1598-1905. New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor press. p. 133. OCLC 2782873.
- Towner, Dewey E. (1990). A genealogy of the Towner family. Leawood, Kansas: D.E. Towner. p. 104. OCLC 191222967.
- Kimberly, Jacobson (2007). Greene County and Mesopotamia Cemetery. Arcadia Publishing. p. 75.
