Montebrier

Montebrier
Location: N of Brierfield on Mahan Creek, Brierfield, Alabama
Area: 6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built: 1853
Architect: Mahan, S.W.
Architectural style: Gothic Revival
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 73000331[1]
Added to NRHP: April 2, 1973

Montebrier is a historic plantation house in Brierfield, Alabama. The 1 12-story frame structure was built circa 1853 by S.W. Mahan in a Gothic Revival cottage orné style. The house is notable for its use of lightly arched porch supports and wide eaves that may show the influence of Andrew Jackson Downing's The Architecture of Country Houses.[2] It currently remains in the Mahan family as a private residence and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 2, 1973.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Gamble, Robert Historic architecture in Alabama: a guide to styles and types, 1810–1930, pages 107-108. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1990. ISBN 0817311343.