Tristram Bethea House, plantation house in Canton Bend, Alabama, USA

The Tristram Bethea House is a large two-story brick structure built before the Civil War in Canton Bend, Alabama. It displays elements of Federal and Greek Revival architecture with detailed woodwork around openings and features a compact interior layout with one main room per floor plus a separate frame addition at the rear.

Tristram Benjamin Bethea, an attorney from South Carolina, built the house in 1842. George O. Miller bought it and 157 acres for $2800 on October 7, 1850, when Bethea moved to Mobile. Joseph Eugene Strother later acquired it, and his family held it until 1987, when Cliff Redenour and Ron Smith bought it and carried out a major restoration. They sold it to the Blanton family in 1995; the Stewart family bought it in 1999. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 11, 1985.

The property is also called Pleasant Ridge, the name recorded alongside Tristram Bethea House in the National Register listing of July 11, 1985. The house stands at Canton Bend, a bend of the Alabama River in Wilcox County, and the name ties the brick house to that rural riverside setting rather than to the Bethea family itself.

The house sits beside the road in Canton Bend and can be viewed from the street, though public access to the interior is not available as it remains a private residence. Daytime visits with good light offer the best view of the brick details and woodwork from the road.

The house is the only brick antebellum house in Wilcox County, a fact noted in its National Register listing of July 11, 1985. Its two-story portico with box columns and the fanlights over both front doors are details to look for from the road.