Click image to enlarge. The Chappell House, built around 1850, is an outstanding example of purposeful adaptive use. Recognizing its historical significance, the Montgomery Housing Authority restored the city’s only surviving brick Greek Revival–style cottage in the 1930s. For nearly seventy years it served as business offices for the surrounding Riverside Heights housing project. With the housing project now gone, the vacant Chappell House faces an uncertain future.
In 2007 the City of Montgomery unanimously approved a municipal master plan that included saving the old house. Th e building was to be incorporated into any new development, just as it had been more than eighty years ago. Local preservation groups have asked city officials to retain this important link to Montgomery’s past.
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