Carlen House, Historic house in Mobile, Alabama, US

Carlen House is a Gulf Coast cottage-style house built in 1843, standing at the northern edge of the Murphy High School campus in Mobile, Alabama. It was the residence of Irish immigrants Michael and Mary Carlen and their twelve children, and it is now a historic house museum.

The house was built in 1843 by Irish immigrants Michael and Mary Carlen, who raised their large family there while farming the land. In 1923, the Mobile County School Board purchased much of the original property to establish an educational campus.

The Carlen House is a Gulf Coast cottage, a regional house type of the 19th-century coastal South. Its name comes from the Carlen family, Irish immigrants Michael and Mary Carlen, who raised twelve children in the house. Today Murphy High School students occasionally use the building, which is not open to the public.

The house is not open to the public; it is used by Murphy High School students on occasion. It stands on the northern edge of the school campus, so it can only be seen from outside, from public ground along the campus boundary.

The 38 acres (15 ha) that the Mobile County School Board bought from the Carlen family in 1923 became the site of Murphy High School, so the cottage now stands inside a public school campus rather than in open farmland.