Everhope Plantation, Greek Revival plantation house in Greene County, Alabama, USA
Everhope is a two-story wood-frame house with a side-gabled roof, brick foundations and chimneys, near Eutaw, Alabama. Its front is covered by a two-story portico on four octagonal columns spanning all five bays, with double doors and sidelights in the central bay of each floor and a cantilevered governor's balcony above.
Built in 1853 for Nathan Mullin Carpenter, the property served as a recruitment site for Confederate Rangers during the American Civil War in 1862. This military use marked an important chapter in the plantation's history during wartime.
The house was an almost exact copy of Pippen Place, the home of Marjorie Pippen's family, and local builder David Rinehart Anthony later gave his own house in Eutaw similar octagonal columns and side gables. Nathan and Marjorie Carpenter raised eight children here, five before the Civil War and three after.
The house stands near Eutaw, reached via Alabama Highway 14. It has no running water or bathrooms, and the Rudd family used it only as a weekend and holiday retreat. Visits are by appointment only.
The property took the name Everhope after 2005, when the two signature oak trees from which the original name Twin Oaks came died on the grounds. This name change marks a turning point in the property's story and identity.
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