Wesley Plattenburg House, Historic residence in Selma, Alabama.

The Wesley Plattenburg House is a two-story residence in Selma, Alabama, completed in 1842 for tailor and merchant Wesley Plattenburg. It combines Greek Revival and Italianate elements, with a symmetrical facade and columns typical of the mid-19th century.

The house was built in 1842 for merchant Wesley Plattenburg and served as the center of a large estate. It remains one of the few buildings in Selma that appears on maps from the American Civil War period.

Wesley Plattenburg, born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, on April 13, 1803, was working as a tailor in Selma by 1829 and later served on the city council. The house he completed in 1842 carries his name and stands as a record of a merchant who turned planter after inheriting a 2,200-acre plantation from a friend, Mr. Wood.

The house stands within Selma's present city limits, at coordinates 32.41389, -87.02222, on ground the city eventually grew to surround. It was listed on Alabama's Places in Peril in 2005, so the exterior is best viewed from the street rather than assumed open. Its Alabama Register listing dates from March 22, 1991, and its National Register listing from February 3, 1993.

The structure is one of the few remaining buildings in Selma that was documented on historical maps from the Civil War period. Its presence on those maps makes it a rare surviving record from that turbulent time.