Westview Plantation

Historic house in Alabama, United States

United States historic place

Significant dates

Westview
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage


34°29′55″N 86°55′52″W / 34.49861°N 86.93111°W / 34.49861; -86.93111
Area	12.9 acres (5.2 ha)
Built	1841 (1841)
NRHP reference No.	82002068^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 18, 1982
Designated ARLH	October 19, 1979^[2]

Westview (also known as the Burleson House) is a historic residence near Decatur, Alabama. The plantation house was built in 1841 by Jonathan Burleson, a North Carolina native who settled in Huntsville as a child. Burleson became a large land- and slaveowner in Morgan County. One of his sons, Rufus Columbus Burleson, moved to Texas and was an early president of Baylor University. Westview was the site of a Union Army camp during the Civil War. After Burleson's death in 1866, much of his land was sold, but the 2,600 acres (1,050 ha) surrounding the house remained in the family. The two-story clapboard structure has a double-height font portico with a second-story balcony. The house has a central hall on each floor with two rooms on either side, and a kitchen wing off the southwest rear that was added around 1912.^[3] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
^ "ALABAMA REGISTER OF LANDMARKS & HERITAGE" (PDF). ahc.alabama.gov. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
^ Gamble, Robert S. (October 6, 1981). "Westview". National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 27, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2014. See also: "Accompanying photos". Archived (PDF) from the original on September 27, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2014.