Fendall Hall, also known as the Young–Dent Home, is an

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-style

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in Eufaula,

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, United States. The two-story wood-frame structure, with a symmetrical villa-type floor-plan and crowning

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, was built between 1856 and 1860 by Edward Brown Young and his wife, Ann Fendall Beall. It remained in the Young family for five generations, passing to the builders’ daughter, Anna Beall Young, and her husband, Stouten Hubert Dent in 1879. It was added to the

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on July 28, 1970. The

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acquired it in 1973 and restored it to an appearance appropriate to a time-frame spanning 1880–1916. Edward Brown Young, a native of

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, married Ann Fendall Beall of

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. The couple moved to Eufaula in 1837, where he engaged in banking and entrepreneurial endeavors. Young is credited with sponsoring the change of the town name from Irwinton to its original

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name, Eufaula.

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