Ernest Baxter Fite House: Reviving Colonial AL History

General brick house - unfortunately we don't have an official picturePhoto byTerrah HollyonUnsplash

Here is another entry from the National Register of Historic Places that you can find in the state of Alabama. This particular location is known as the Ernest Baxter Fite House. This house was built back in the twenties, specifically from the year nineteen twenty-seven to the year nineteen twenty-eight. It was initially designed by someone by the name of Weatherly Carter whose claim to fame is being both the architect of this particular house as well as another place of historical significance in Alabama known as the Alabama Governor's Mansion.

The house is currently located at the junction of Jackson Military Road and Thomas Street in the city of Hamilton, Alabama - a city that is the largest metropolitan area that you can find in the county of Marion. You can also find the house at 34°8′0″N 87°59′27″W if you are the kind of person who wants to get very specific with this location's coordinates. This house was given the National Register of Historic Places reference number 94001545 and it was first added to the NRHP back in August of nineteen ninety-seven.

So why is this house considered to be historically significant to the United States of America as a whole as well as the state of Alabama? Well first, the Ernest Baxter Fite House is named after a state senator and member of the Alabama House of Representatives who lived in the home with his son, state legislator and second lieutenant Rankin Fite. On top of that, it is a house designed in the Colonial Revival style of architecture that was common in the days of colonial America.