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A century of architectural styles awaits visitors to Selma’s 35th Historic Pilgrimage. Nine homes built from the 1820s to the 1920s are on tour, most of them in the Old Town Historic District. Styles vary from an antebellum Greek Revival that bears scars of the Civil War to a rambling “Free Classic” Victorian that once served as a house church to a cozy 1920’s Tudor cottage surrounded by gardens. Visitors can spend a couple of days to see them all or opt for a one-day tour of four homes. Come early on Thursday and take part in the late-night investigation of ghosts at Brownstone Manor, or stay Friday night and tour the mansion following the ghost tour in Old Live Oak Cemetery. Other homes include a post-Civil War raised Italianate cottage, a Craftsman’s bungalow, 1890’s brick Victorian, a palatial early 1900’s home with a two-story colonnade and a charming bridge tender’s cottage on the bank of the Alabama River. Please check the home-tour schedule, and plan to visit our featured church, museums, art shows and Selma Shoppe before you leave! |
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700 Lapsley Street
Friday, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
A cozy, English Tudor-style cottage, this early 20th-Century home features glorious gardens and window boxes tended by landscape designer Greg Bjelke and his wife Jane. |
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Ashford Corinthian colonnades and Ionic capitals give the entrance to this 1903 home a palatial appearance. Look for interior columns and lots of leaded glass inside. |
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Churchview Built by one brick manufacturer and now owned by another, this 1893 brick Victorian has lots of detail, from urn-shaped pillars on the porch to an original stained-glass window over the staircase to beaded woodwork. |
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Kenan Home Built in 1826, this two-story Greek Revival is the oldest house on Pilgrimage and one of the oldest in the county. Be sure and visit the parlor where a large area of its heart pine floor is charred from an attempt by Union troops to burn it during the Civil War. |
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Bridge Tender’s House This lovely 1893 cottage sits in the shadow of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the Alabama River. |
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Kelso Cottage A former Selma banker built this 1866 raised Victorian cottage with Italianate style. The former servants’ quarters out back have been renovated as a modern apartment. |
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Nettie’s Cottage Here’s an eclectic 1925 Craftsman’s style house that once was part of the Parrish Compound. The Parrishes were well known in Selma, with the high school once named for Albert G. Parrish and the Hotel Albert named for Albert Parrish. Clara Weaver Parrish worked on some of her Tiffany masterpieces in a nearby studio. |
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Pitts-Ellwanger-Weerts (PEW) Home This 1900 “Free Classic” Victorian served as a house church for blacks and whites in the 1950s. Once owned by a Lutheran pastor who became president of Concordia College, the house is steeped in Civil Rights Era history and features stained and leaded glass, plus there’s a Lionel Train room upstairs. |
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Paranormal Tour of Brownstone Manor If you’re looking for ghosts, this is the house for you. A paranormal investigation on Thursday and Friday nights (March 18-19) will take you through this Neo-Classic mansion that is one of only a few “mirrored” houses in the Southeast. |
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