Foster Home/Sylvan Plantation

The Foster Home, also known as Cedar Hill or Sylvan Plantation, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

Foster Home/Sylvan Plantation
LocationOff US 11, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Coordinates33°04′49″N 87°42′09″W
Area4.1 acres (1.7 ha)
Builtc.1825
Architectural styleI-House
NRHP reference No.85000451[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 7, 1985

The main house is an I-house built around 1825. It is an east-facing two-story weatherboarded house, built of heart pine upon a brick pier foundation. It has a one-story, two-room ell at the south rear.[2]

It is located off US 11 south of Tuscaloosa.[2]

The listing also includes a family cemetery as a contributing site, about 50 yards (46 m) west of the house. Enclosed by a cast iron fence, it contains graves of Robert Savidge Foster, his wife Ann Tompkins Foster, and those of several children and other family members. It has the grave of Wade Foster, a co-founder in 1856 of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity at the University of Alabama.[2]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Shirley Quails; Robert Gamble (October 16, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Foster Home/Sylvan Plantation / Cedar Hill". National Park Service. Retrieved November 13, 2019. With accompanying eight photos from 1984


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