Bluff Hall, House museum in Demopolis, Alabama, US
Bluff Hall is a two-story brick residence in Demopolis, partly covered in smooth stucco, with a front portico of six square brick columns finished in stucco. A balcony spanning the entrance doors rests on wrought iron brackets. Inside, the double parlor holds two columns given to the Lyons by the Whitfield family of nearby Gaineswood.
The house was built in 1832 by Allen Glover for his daughter Sarah and her husband Francis Lyon. During the 1840s it was redesigned with the Greek Revival architectural style.
The double parlor holds two columns given to the Lyons as an anniversary gift by the Whitfield family, who lived nearby at Gaineswood. The gift links Bluff Hall to another Greek Revival house of the same neighbourhood.
The house sits on a limestone bluff above the Tombigbee River and is easy to reach from downtown Demopolis. Visitors should check opening hours ahead of time, as it is operated by the Marengo County Historical Society.
Bluff Hall was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936, and its measured drawings and photographs from that project remain a record of the house before later changes. The property joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
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