John Tyler Morgan House, Greek Revival residence in Selma, United States
The John Tyler Morgan House is a residential building featuring classical architectural elements at Tremont Street in Selma. It displays the symmetrical proportions and columned entries typical of homes from the 1850s era.
Thomas R. Wetmore built the house in 1859 and sold it to John Tyler Morgan in 1865. Morgan had been a Confederate brigadier general and served as the second Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama; in 1876 he stepped down from that role and was elected a Democratic U.S. senator, serving six terms. He used the house as his primary residence for many of those years.
From its incorporation in June 1965 until a new campus opened in 1967, the house held John T. Morgan Academy, a segregation academy named for the senator who had owned the property. The school's stay was brief, ending once its own buildings were finished.
The building operates today as office space and access is restricted to administrative functions. Visitors should check beforehand about viewing opportunities, as the property is not consistently open to the public.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1972. Before that, from June 1965 until a new campus opened in 1967, it housed John T. Morgan Academy, a segregation academy named for the man who had owned the house a century earlier.
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