Long Description:"Ashe Cottage, also known as the Ely House, is a historic Carpenter
Gothic house in Demopolis, Alabama. It was built in 1832 and
expanded and remodeled in the Gothic Revival style in 1858 by
William Cincinnatus Ashe, a physician from North Carolina. The
cottage is a one-and-a-half story wood frame building, the front
elevation features two semi-octagonal gabled front bays with a
one-story porch inset between them. The gables and porch are
trimmed with bargeboards in a design taken from Samuel Sloan's plan
for "An Old English Cottage" in his 1852 publication, The Model
Architect. The house is one of only about twenty remaining
residential examples of Gothic Revival architecture remaining in
the state. Other historic Gothic Revival residences in the area
include Waldwic in Gallion and Fairhope Plantation in Uniontown.
Ashe Cottage was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and
Heritage on August 22, 1975 and to the National Register of
Historic Places on 19 October 1978." -
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