The Welch-Averiett House, in

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near

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, dates from 1830. It was listed on the

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in 1986. The listing included four

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on , on a land parcel of about . The house was built around 1920. It is a "a rambling twelve room clapboard bungalow little changed since c.1920. It has a

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with broad eaves and a shed dormer decorated with angular brackets. The exterior is clapboard irregularly fenestrated with 6/6 wooden sash windows. There are four exterior brick chimneys. Two

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'cabins' adjoin the rear with gabled and shed additions to the west end." It is also known as the L.L. Dean House and was known in the 1800s as Welch Spring. Other parts of the estate are older. The listing includes a

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, in the

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community.

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National Register of Historic Places in Talladega County, Alabama Houses completed in 1920 {{TalladegaCountyAL-NRHP-stub

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