Silk Stocking District

This house was built using large, hand-hewn support timbers and laths. The main lumber used in the construction is heart pine. The house was built the same year that the City of Talladega was founded. Remodeled in the 1890s with a frame-gabled front bay, scroll-saw trim, and paired windows, Judge William P. Chilton lived here for a period of time.

Now referred to as "Sugar Hill," the front entrance faced an Indian trail on the north side of the house. When East Street was laid out, another porch was added on the west side. Residents have included Judge William P. Chilton, a Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and John Tyler Morgan, U.S. Senator, "Father of the Panama Canal," and instrumental in annexation fo the Hawaiian Islands and construction of Pearl Harbor Naval Base. The house faces away from street.

Built for retail merchant Sam Goldberg, co-owner of Goldberg and Lewis department store, which was located on the Talladega square.

This Queen Anne cottage was built in the 1890s and has traditionally been called the Corner House because the entrance faces the corner of the lot. This Victorian cottage has an interesting corner entrance and Eastlake motif.

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This cottage features pyramidical roof, gabled front bay, and singled gable, all typical features of the era.

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This highly ornamental one-story house was built by "Dick" Franks, owner of a mill that supplied roof shingles for many structures during the early boom days of Birmingham.

This one-story Victorian cottage has a typical front bay.

This two-story Neo-Classical Greek Revival house was designed by Frank Lockwood for the Roland Lee Stringer family who owned it until 1986. The porch features Scamozzi Ionic capped American Vignoli columns.

This elegant frame house with irregular massing and classical detailing was the home of George Bellingrath, founder of Bellingrath Gardens in Mobile.

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This simple cottage is named for the Middleton family from Charleston, South Carolina. Note the extravagantly displayed palladian window and shingles on the front dormer.

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The Warwick-Paul Home was constructed in the 1830s along the road that eventually became East Street South. Simeon Douglas, a lawyer, built this house. It passed through several fine families over the years and was added-on to over the years. It was eventually inherited by W. Fancier and Dr. B.B. Warwich.

Stuccoed gables and wide eaves make this house quite different from others in the area.

In the early 1920's Mrs. Ida Wallis Elliott purchased this house, and through major reconstruction, created the Ionic Greek Revival motif you see today. Mrs. Elliott's husband passed, leaving her with three small children. After teaching school for a time, Mrs. Elliott's interest in travel prompted her to found Elliott Tours, which grew into one of the world's largest agencies at the time. Mrs. Elliot added a marble porch and interior marble staircase, among other improvements. The house was sold to the Robb Family in 1964.

This apartments building is noted for its fine interior work. A long time resident was Ms. Zora Ellis, prominent Talladega teacher and for whom a Talladega Middle School is named.

Originally built for Oran Milo Roberts, two structural upgrades produced the current Doric Greek Revival style. Oran Roberts moved to Texas, served on the Supreme Court, was elected Governor of the State, and in the 1870s founded Prarie View State Normal College, Sam Houston State Normal College, and the University of Texas. Justice George Stone, Senator John Tyler Morgan, and others preceeded Dr. C. L. Salter, a Talldega physician, is owner of the house. Dr. Salter's 1938 modification resulted in the exteriror appearance today.

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The Methodist Church began meeting in 1833 at a local house near the Big Spring, a few blocks away. The congregation moved into two larger buildings in 1837 and again in 1857. Construction on this church began in 1921. Upon completion, the Rev. Clare Purcell preached the first sermon in the new church on Friday evening, April 11, 1924.

This was a log and frame house, modified with additions and alternations in 1881 and the early 20th centruy. Felix McConnell, a former resident, introduced the first homestead act in the United States Congress.