Georgia Cottage, Greek Revival cottage in Mobile, Alabama.
Georgia Cottage is a one-story wood-frame house on a brick foundation in Mobile, Alabama, combining Gulf Coast cottage and Greek Revival forms. It has a main block with matching side wings and a hipped roof, and stands at the end of a long avenue of live oaks planted before 1840. It was built as a country house and now lies within the city limits.
The house was built in 1840 for a colonel's daughter as a family residence. It changed ownership in 1857 when a successful novelist purchased it, bringing literary significance to the property.
Augusta Jane Evans wrote Macaria and St. Elmo at Georgia Cottage and married Lorenzo Madison Wilson in its parlor in 1868. The house is a private residence, not open to visitors, so the rooms cannot be toured. Its name comes from the home state of Colonel John Murrell, who built it in 1840.
Georgia Cottage is a private residence and is not open to the public, so the house and its grounds cannot be toured. The live oak avenue planted before 1840, listed in Alabama's Famous and Historic Trees Program, runs toward the house and can be seen from the street.
A Marine Corps veteran and author named Eugene Bondurant Sledge spent his childhood here after his father bought the property. His life adds another layer to the house's literary and military history.
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