Bishop Portier House
Bishop Portier House is a historic residence in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It sits at 307 Conti Street, diagonally across from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and facing Cathedral Square. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile owns the house.
Built around 1834, it is one of Mobile’s best-preserved Creole cottages with neoclassical details. The house was designed by Claude Beroujon, a seminarian architect and the nephew of Michael Portier, Mobile’s first Catholic bishop. The mansion is named for Portier, who lived there from 1834 until his death in 1859; four subsequent bishops also resided there until 1906.
From 1870 to 1877, Abram Ryan, a noted poet-priest of the South, occupied the northwest corner room on the second floor. The archdiocese restored the residence in 1958 and again in 2007. The Bishop Portier House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 1970, and is part of the Historic Roman Catholic Properties in Mobile Multiple Property Submission. The NRHP reference number is 70000109.
Description: The building is a one-and-a-half-story frame structure with clapboard siding and a plastered long gallery. It has a square plan with a center hall running from front to rear, a gabled roof with full-length galleries on slender columns, and three ornate dormers. The main entrance features pilasters, an entablature, a transom, and sidelights.
Location coordinates: 30.6900°N, 88.0450°W.
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