The Dancy-Polk House is Decatur’s oldest historic home. The
home is listed on the National Register and Alabama’s Historic
Register. This Palladian style home was built in 1829
by Colonel Frances Dancy.
The Edwards-Digges house dates from 1904.It is a Victorian Cottage with a wrap-around porch.
The original Edwards family owner was a haberdasher and had
his store front on Bank Street near the present location of Simp
McGee’s.
Construction of the McEntire-Bennett house was started in
1824 and completed in 1836 by John S Rhea. Riverview, as it
was originally called, was the center of an 800-acre plantation.
All exterior walls are eighteen inches thick, built of bricks made
by slaves. The wooden carvings around the doors into the entry
are regarded as the finest examples of antebellum work in
the state.
A Decatur landmark, this Colonial Revival style home with
the traditional large columns and wide front portico was built
in 1912 for Decatur’s first millionaire, W. R. Spight, owner of
Brock & Spight Wholesale Grocers.
The Henkel-Cox house was built in 1905 by Dr. C. L. Henkel, a
Decatur pharmacist. The house is a Queen Anne Victorian as evidenced by its steeply
pitched roof and asymmetrical shape. It was built during Decatur’s
Victorian Era (1870-1910) in the “free-classic” Queen
Anne style.
The Barrett-Faison home is an English Cottage built in 1944 for
the Barrett family. Mr. Barrett, who worked as a Sealtest milkman
and served Jackson Street on his route, is fondly remembered
by some for throwing ice from his truck to children who
chased him down the street on hot summer days.
The Old State Bank remains at its original site from when it first opened in 1833. The two story sturcture sports Federal Empire period architecture which was popular in the 1830s.
The Carnegie Visual Arts Center, originally constructed in 1904 as The Carnegie Library with funding from the Carnegie Foundation. It is one of the few remaining original Carnegie Library buildings in the nation..
The First Presbyterian Church was originally constructed on the corner of Church and Bank Streets. It was destroyed by the Union Army in 1864.
This year's site for tour refreshments is First United Methodist Church, officially organized
in 1834. In 1835, the first church building was constructed
on a portion of the block bounded by Bank, Lafayette, Railroad,
and Church Streets.
This historic church has endured
through the Civil War
and two yellow fever epidemics.
The first Girl Scout Council
in Decatur was organized
by the late Julia Chenault in
1943. In 1944, the Wheeler
Area Girl Scout Council
convinced the City of Decatur
to let them convert the
open air band shell structure
in Delano Park to a
meeting place.
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