Quietdale

Historic house in Alabama, United States

United States historic place


Mrs. William Robinson House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The house in December 2010
34°45′25″N 86°34′26″W / 34.75694°N 86.57389°W / 34.75694; -86.57389
Area	6.5 acres (2.6 ha)
Built	1854 (1854)
Architect	Mathew W. Steele
Architectural style	Romantic Eclecticism
NRHP reference No.	82002054^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 4, 1982

Quietdale (also known as the Mrs. William Robinson House) is a historic residence in Huntsville, Alabama, US. The house was built in 1854 for Caroline Moore Robinson, the widow of Madison County Sheriff William Robinson. It represents a shift in architecture from Neoclassical to the more eclectic forms that became prominent in the late 19th century.

The main block of the house is rectangular, with an ell off the rear and a two-story porch following the ell. The hipped roof is truncated to form a rooftop deck. A two-story, three-room, servants' quarters is connected to the house via the porch. Centered on the façade is a single-story hipped roof porch supported by six slender, octagonal columns with corbelled arches in the architraves. A similar porch extends along the west side of the house. Five large six-over-six sash windows stretch across the second floor, while the side of the house has two windows centered between two chimneys, with another window outside of them.^[2] There were originally two separate staircases which led to the divided second floor, but they were combined and the second floor joined by the second owner, Erskine Mastin.^[3]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
^ Gamble, Robert S. (January 1981). "Robinson, Mrs. William, House". National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 5, 2014. Retrieved July 5, 2014. See also: "Accompanying photos". Archived (PDF) from the original on July 5, 2014. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
^ Ammons, Pat (March 20, 2014). "Huntsville's historic Quietdale mansion lives on". The Huntsville Times. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 5, 2014.