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The Parks E. Ball House is a historic house near Aliceville, Pickens County, Alabama. It is the only surviving Antebellum brick house in the county.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1982;[1] and added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage list on October 19, 1979.[2]

Description and history

The rectangular, two-story Federal-style I-house was built for Parks E. Ball in about 1830. Ball was born around 1803 in the Columbia, South Carolina area. He emigrated to Alabama as a young man and purchased this property in 1826.[3] Inside, the house follows the typical center-hall plan, with a single room to each side of the 12-foot wide passage on the first and second floors.

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