Quietdale, National Historic Place in Huntsville, United States.
Quietdale is a two-story house with a rectangular main block, a rear ell, and a two-story porch along the ell. Its truncated hipped roof forms a rooftop deck. A single-story hipped porch with six slender octagonal columns and corbelled arches centers the facade, and a similar porch runs along the west side. A two-story, three-room servants' quarters connects via the porch.
Quietdale was built in 1854 for Caroline Moore Robinson, widow of Madison County Sheriff William Robinson. Its second owner, Erskine Mastin, joined the two separate staircases and combined the divided second floor. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Quietdale's name was given by the Robinson family, and the house stayed in private hands long after Caroline Moore Robinson's death. The two-story, three-room servants' quarters linked to the main block by the rear porch shows how service space was kept apart from the family rooms in a mid-19th-century Alabama household.
The location sits on Quietdale Drive in the northeast part of town and can be seen from outside, though visiting ahead of time is recommended. The surrounding grounds and outbuildings are worth exploring during a visit to understand the full layout.
The two-story servants' quarters has three rooms and is joined to the main house only through the rear porch, so the household staff reached the family without crossing the main block. The second owner, Erskine Mastin, later combined the two separate staircases and joined the divided second floor.
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