Q: What’s the story behind the historic house at 300 Kirkland St. in Abbeville?
A: The Kennedy House was built around 1870 by Dr. William Calvin Bethune, a prominent doctor who had been a lieutenant colonel in the Fifty-seventh Alabama Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. The house was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1976 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
People are also reading… Bethune apparently occupied the house only a few years, the form says. It changed hands three times prior to being purchased by Walter K. Stokes in 1878. Stokes retained the structure for seven years, selling it to William and Mollie Kennedy in 1885. In 1976, the Encyclopedia of Alabama article says, the board planned on demolishing the house to make room for the crowded Abbeville Middle School nearby.
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