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Foster Home/Sylvan Plantation

Coordinates: 33°04′49″N 87°42′09″W / 33.08028°N 87.70250°W / 33.08028; -87.70250
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Foster Home/Sylvan Plantation
Front exterior view of the Foster Home in 1984
Foster Home/Sylvan Plantation is located in Alabama
Foster Home/Sylvan Plantation
LocationOff US 11, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Coordinates33°04′49″N 87°42′09″W / 33.08028°N 87.70250°W / 33.08028; -87.70250
Area4.1 acres (1.7 ha)
Builtc.1825
Architectural styleI-House
NRHP reference No.85000451[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 7, 1985

The Foster Home, also known as Cedar Hill or Sylvan Plantation, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

Built as the main residence and headquarters of a large slave-labor cotton farm, the main house is an east-facing two-story weatherboarded house, constructed of heart pine upon a brick pier foundation. Erected around 1825, it is an I-house with a one-story, two-room ell at the south rear.[2]

It is located off US 11 south of Tuscaloosa.[2]

The listing also includes a family cemetery as a contributing site, about 50 yards (46 m) west of the house. Enclosed by a cast-iron fence, it contains graves of Robert Savidge Foster, his wife Ann Tompkins Foster, and those of several children and other family members. It has the grave of Wade Foster, a co-founder in 1856 of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity at the University of Alabama.[2]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System – Foster Home (Sylvan Plantation)/Cedar Hill (#85000451)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Quails, Shirley; Gamble, Robert (October 16, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination: Foster Home (Sylvan Plantation) / Cedar Hill". National Park Service. Retrieved January 10, 2022. With accompanying eight photos from 1984