Foscue House

Foscue House was built in 1840 for Augustus Foscue, a North Carolina native who by 1850 owned more than 3,000 acres and 137 slaves in Marengo County. His daughter Mary Alice married Dr. Bryan Watkins Whitfield in 1855; he was the son of Gen. Nathan Bryan Whitfield of nearby Gaineswood Plantation. The original construction date was worked into orange-hued brick on the south side chimney. In 1849, a brown-hued brick addition was built onto the front, requiring the removal of a two-tiered, columned entrance portico. The present shed-roofed porch was added in the twentieth century by Jesse G. Whitfield, replacing a small 1849 portico. Interior woodwork and wainscoting retain original faux bois graining to simulate bird’s eye maple, done by the enslaved Bob Ashe, who became a well-known carpenter in postbellum Demopolis.

Demopolis, Alabama · United States