Alston-Cobb House

Alston-Cobb House

Alston-Cobb House in Grove Hill, Clarke County, Alabama
Alston-Cobb House in Grove Hill, Clarke County, Alabama

The Alston-Cobb House, now formally known as the Clarke County Historical Museum, is a historic house and local history museum in Grove Hill, Alabama. It was built in 1854 by Dr. Lemuel Lovett Alston as a Greek Revival I-house, a vernacular style also known in the South as Plantation Plain. It is one of only four examples of an I-house to survive intact in Clarke County.  The Alston-Cobb House was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on September 1, 1978 and to the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1979.