Magnolia Grove, Greek Revival mansion in Greensboro, Alabama.

Magnolia Grove is a two-story handmade-brick house in Greensboro, Alabama, with a stuccoed front facade and a monumental hexastyle portico of six Doric columns. Behind the portico, a five-bay facade has a central doorway on each floor, the upper one opening onto a cantilevered balcony. A rear two-story portico rests on six slender cast-iron columns, and a central hall runs front to back on both floors.

Magnolia Grove was built in 1840 for Isaac Croom, a lawyer and planter from Lenoir County, North Carolina, and his wife Sarah Pearson Croom. After Isaac died in 1863 and Sarah in 1878, the estate passed to Sarah C. Pearson, who married James M. Hobson, a Hale County probate judge; their son Richmond Pearson Hobson, a naval hero of the Spanish-American War, grew up here. The house was dedicated as a state shrine in his honor on May 1, 1947.

The house is named for the 15-acre grove of southern magnolias surrounding it. It was dedicated as a state shrine to Richmond Pearson Hobson on May 1, 1947, and the Gleaves-class destroyer USS Hobson was commissioned in his honor on January 22, 1942. Hobson, called the "Father of American Prohibition", proposed more than 20 constitutional amendments to ban alcohol while serving in Congress from 1907 to 1915.

Magnolia Grove is operated as a historic house museum by the Alabama Historical Commission. The main house and the separate two-story brick building behind it, which held the original kitchen and servants' quarters, are the structures to see. The site is in Greensboro, Hale County, and the house was listed on the National Register on April 11, 1973.

The house was dedicated as a state shrine to Richmond Pearson Hobson on May 1, 1947, and on January 22, 1942 the Gleaves-class destroyer USS Hobson was commissioned in his honor posthumously. Hobson received the Medal of Honor in 1933 for his actions aboard the USS Merrimac, and a 1934 act of Congress advanced him to Naval Constructor with the rank of Rear Admiral.