Pitts' Folly, Greek Revival plantation house in Uniontown, Alabama, United States

Pitts' Folly is a Greek Revival mansion in Uniontown, Alabama, built around 1852 with wood construction and two stories. The building features a striking wide porch extending across both floors with fourteen substantial columns, a gabled roof, and ornamental plaster decorations on interior walls.

Phillip Henry Pitts, born in Essex County, Virginia, in 1814, moved to Uniontown in 1833 and began building the house on February 27, 1852, completing it in April 1853. By 1860 he owned two additional plantations totalling 2,200 acres and held stock in the Alabama-Mississippi Railroad. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The house earned its name "Folly" because neighbors viewed the massive, elaborate structure as unusual for the area. This name has endured and reflects how the community once reacted to this ambitious building project from the 1800s.

The house sits along State Highway 21 in Uniontown, Perry County, and can be viewed from outside. It is not typically open for public tours, but the grounds with their outbuildings can be explored from public access areas.

Local legend holds that Uniontown residents thought Philip Henry Pitts foolish to build so large a house, which gave the place its name. Pitts recorded the start of construction in his diary on February 27, 1852, and its completion in April 1853. The house and grounds were surveyed in 1935 and 1936 by the Historic American Buildings Survey.