Altwood, Plantation house near Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama, United States

Altwood is a plantation house near Faunsdale, Alabama, begun in 1836 by Richard H. Adams as a log dogtrot house and later enlarged until it superficially resembled a Tidewater-type cottage. The vernacular form is a story-and-a-half tall, strictly symmetrical, with prominent end chimneys flanking a steeply pitched longitudinal gable roof often pierced by dormer windows, much like Gunston Hall.

Richard H. Adams built Altwood in 1836 as a log dogtrot house; his wife Anna Carter Harrison was a great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin Harrison V. The house was enlarged over time until it came to resemble a Tidewater-type cottage, a form brought to the Alabama frontier by settlers from Virginia's Tidewater and Piedmont. It was listed on the Alabama Register on February 19, 1988, and on the National Register on July 13, 1993.

Altwood takes its name from the Adams family line: Richard H. Adams's wife, Anna Carter Harrison, was a daughter of Carter Bassett Harrison and a great-great-great-granddaughter of King Carter. The house began as a log dogtrot, a two-room form with an open central passage, before later additions gave it the look of a Tidewater cottage.

Altwood stands near Faunsdale in Marengo County, Alabama, at coordinates 32.42389, -87.67444. It was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on February 19, 1988, and on the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1993, as part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.

Altwood began as a log dogtrot house in 1836, a form with two rooms separated by an open central passage. The house was later enlarged until it took on the look of a Tidewater-type cottage, with strict symmetry and end chimneys flanking a steep gable roof.