Noble Hall
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Noble Hall, also known as the Frazer-Brown-Pearson Home, is a structure in Auburn, Alabama listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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[edit] History
Noble Hall was built in 1854 as the main residence of a 2,000 acre (8 km²) cotton plantation. The home was built in the Greek Revival style popular in Alabama at the time out of rock and mortar, with eight rooms with 12 foot (3.7 m) ceilings, 18 inch (46 cm) thick exterior walls, two cantilevered balconies, and eight Doric columns. Built behind the home were the exterior kitchen, carriage and smokehouse, and overseer's house. As with most of the largest plantation houses in the antebellum South, Noble Hall was built with slave labor, though the owner brought in a contractor from Kentucky to manage the construction.
During the Civil War, the home housed a number of sick and injured Confederate soldiers. Toward the end of the war, Union troops came to ransack the mansion, but were persuaded to take only the horses and mules when one of the residents showed a Masonic sign.
The home remained under the hands of the original owners, the Frazers, until cotton prices collapsed in 1922. In 1932, Noble Hall was purchased by J.V. Brown, who restored the home and grounds to their original condition. In 1941, Brown sold the house and surrounding lands to Alabama Polytechnic Institute president Luther Noble Duncan. His daughter inherited the home in 1951, and named it Noble Hall, after her father. Noble Hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 24, 1972, making it the first structure in Lee County to be placed on the Register.
[edit] Miscellaneous
Noble Hall is located in north-central Auburn, on Shelton Road one mile past the University loop. Noble Hall remains a private residence, and is thus not open to the public.
[edit] See also
List of Registered Historic Places in Lee County, Alabama
[edit] References
- Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Lee County Historical Society (1988). Noble Hall. Historic Marker. Located at 1433 Shelton Road, Auburn, Ala.
- Logue, Mickey & Simms, Jack (1996). Auburn: A Pictorial History of the Loveliest Village, Revised. Auburn, Ala. ISBN 1-885860-08-0
