Old Town Historic District, Selma

Name: Old Town Historic District
Address: Selma, United States

#13 among attractions in Selma

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The Old Town Historic District is a 323-acre historic district in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama. It is bounded by U.S. Route 80, Broad and Franklin streets, and Dallas and Selma avenues. The boundaries were increased on December 15, 2003. The district includes examples of the Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Victorian, Shotgun, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, Renaissance Revival, and Classical Revival. It contains 629 properties, with 513 contributing and 116 noncontributing to the district. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, 1978. ()

Coordinates: 32°24'37"N, 87°1'31"W

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Selma United States

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Old Town Historic District – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building, Sturdivant Hall, Edmund Pettus Bridge, National Voting Rights Museum.

~1830 ftS
Museum, History museum, Specialty museum
Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building, Selma
9 min walk • The Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building, also known by a variety of other names throughout its history, is a historic Greek Revival building in Selma, Alabama. Completed in 1847, it has served many functions in the more than 160 years of its existence.
~1480 ftNW
Museum, History museum, Specialty museum
Sturdivant Hall, Selma
8 min walk • Sturdivant Hall, also known as the Watts-Parkman-Gillman Home, is a historic Greek Revival mansion and house museum in Selma, Alabama, United States. Completed in 1856, it was designed by Thomas Helm Lee for Colonel Edward T. Watts.
0.6 miSE
Famous landmark in civil rights history
Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma
15 min walk • The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, U.S. senator, and state-level leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.
0.7 miSE
Museum, History museum
National Voting Rights Museum, Selma
19 min walk • The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, established in 1991 and opened in 1993, is an American museum in Selma, Alabama, which honors, chronicles, collects, archives, and displays the artifacts and testimony of the activists who participated in the events leading up to...
0.6 miSW
Cemetery
Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma
16 min walk • Old Live Oak Cemetery is an historic cemetery in Selma, Alabama that was founded in 1829 and expanded in 1877. The newer portion is sometimes called New Live Oak Cemetery and the cemetery is collectively known as Live Oak Cemetery.
~1290 ftE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma
7 min walk • St. Paul's Episcopal Church is an historic red brick Gothic Revival church located at 210 Lauderdale Street in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States.
0.5 miNE
Church
First Baptist Church, Selma
13 min walk • First Baptist Church is a historic church at 709 Martin Luther King, Jr. Street in Selma, Alabama. A historically African American Baptist church, it was built in the Gothic Revival style in 1894 and known for its association with the Civil Rights Movement.
0.5 miE
Sacred and religious sites, Church
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, Selma
14 min walk • Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a church at 410 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Selma, Alabama, United States.
0.7 miE
32°24'31"N • 87°0'50"W
Old Depot Museum, Selma
18 min walk • Museum, History museum
0.6 miE
32°24'28"N • 87°0'57"W
Ancient Africa Enslavement & Civil War Museum, Selma
15 min walk • Museum
~1620 ftNE
Greek Revival architecture
Wesley Plattenburg House, Selma
8 min walk • The 'Wesley Plattenburg House is a historic house in Selma, Alabama. Featuring a unique combination of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles, it was completed in 1842 for Wesley Plattenburg.

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Which popular attractions are close to Old Town Historic District?

Nearby attractions include St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Selma (7 min walk), John Tyler Morgan House, Selma (7 min walk), Sturdivant Hall, Selma (8 min walk), Wesley Plattenburg House, Selma (8 min walk).