Click image to enlarge. The 1857 Kennedy House is one of Alabama’s most important examples of hybrid Greek Revival and Italianate architectural impulses seen in the last decade before the Civil War. A tall, temple-type, neoclassical front portico is paired with Italianate detailing, broad ornamentally bracketed eaves, round-arch windows with cast-iron hoodmolds, and above the portico, a series of flattened, stilted arches springing from column to column instead of the expected classical entablature. In the tradition of many mid-nineteenth-century Mobile mansions, a long, L-shaped, double gallery services the rear, while also making use of a side-hall plan.
The owner of the Kennedy house, American Legion Post No. 3, was recognized in 1950 for its respectful use and maintenance of a landmark building. Since that time, however, the mansion has deteriorated nearly to ruin. The American Legion would like to sell the Kennedy House, but as a condition of the sale, they have asked the purchaser to construct a new building for them in the suburbs.
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