520 Acres in Orrville, AL - $1,500,000
HUNTER'S PARADISE OF
520 ACRES +/-! HUGE WHITE TAIL DEER!
Crumptonia possesses the expansive scale and plain detail typical of several 1840s and 1850s houses in this part of Alabama. Masculine and robust, constructed of tight-grained pine timber painted white, such houses seem perculiarly fitting for a rural landscape where the frontier even today seems just over one's shoulder. The architectural style is a straightforward neoclassicim in the Greek Revivial strain, with heavy details of molding and cornice gleaned from popular carpenter's handbooks of the day and then adapted according to the skill, taste and means of country folk. No fluted round columns here; but rather heavy square pillars fashioned of long, straight planks, carrying a rather topp-lightly proportioned entablature.
As with similar houses in the area, the dominant tone is set by a solidly porportioned ce...
As with similar houses in the area, the dominant tone is set by a solidly porportioned central portico - its bold triangular pediment echoed by equally powerful pedimented end gables. Against such strong, clean lines the heavy turned balusters of the balcony railing seem almost voluptuous, an unexpected lapse that softens and yet somehow makes all the more appealing the visual character of this remotely situated plantation house.
Built for South Carolina-born Claudius M. Cochran, the house along with the rural crossroads it dominates acquired the name CRUMPTONIA when it later become the home of the Crumpton family.
Eli Weaver and his family have lived there for twenty-nine years. A close-knit family, they are devout, hard-working members of the Mennonite community that settled in and around central Dallas County. They thrive because of close ties to nature, supporting themselves by raising cows and culvating corn, sorghum, and wheat. A newly finished deer meat and hid processing shed provides an additional source of income from area hunters. Time and scale have changed significantly, but the spirit of Crumptonia flourishes with this family.