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The Old Rock House in Harpersville, Al. was built in 1835. It offers a rare intact example of early stonemasonry in Alabama. It is built of gray granite and limestone. The land upon which it sits was granted by Gen. Andrew Jackson in 1812 and sits on an old cotton plantation. It has small upper-level windows, twin doorways which are recess paneled with arched stone surrounds. The home has four rooms on the ground floor and four rooms on the upper floor. The kitchen was attached to the back of the stone structure. It has a surviving staircase between the two floors which provided space for the only closet in the house. The home has wood burning fireplaces in every room. The chimneys are on the inside of the house and not the outside. It is one of a kind from the state from the antebellum period. This house can be counted as one of the only few surviving stone dwellings from the Carolinas to central Texas.