Conde-Charlotte House, House museum and historic site in Mobile, United States.

The Conde-Charlotte House is a house museum in Mobile, Alabama, built of handmade brick covered with smooth stucco. Its earliest section, the rear kitchen wing, dates to 1822; the two-and-a-half-story main section was added a few decades later. The front has a two-story portico with brick Doric columns below and wooden Corinthian columns above, reflecting a change from Federal to Greek Revival style.

The rear kitchen wing dates to 1822, when it served as Mobile's first courthouse and city jail, built between the southern bastions of Fort Condé as the fort was being demolished. In 1849 Jonathan Kirkbride of Mount Holly, New Jersey, bought the site and turned the old courthouse and jail into a kitchen wing attached to a new main house. The Kirkbride family held it until 1905, when B. J. Bishop bought it; the Historic Mobile Preservation Society acquired it in 1940 and began a partial restoration, later completed by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

The rooms display furnishings and decorations reflecting the British, Spanish, and American periods that shaped the city's past. Walking through, you can see how residents lived during these different eras.

The museum sits in the downtown area within walking distance of other historic sites. Plan your visit during daytime hours when the rooms are well-lit and you can see the details of the furnishings clearly.

The outlines of four old jail cells were found in the kitchen wing during the 1940s restoration, not in a basement. The 1822 building had served as Mobile's first courthouse and city jail, erected between the southern bastions of Fort Condé while the fort was being demolished.