J. D. Holman House
J. D. Holman House is a historic two-story home in Ozark, Alabama. Built in 1912–13 for Jesse DeCosta Holman, a prominent local merchant, it is one of the Wiregrass Region’s finest Neoclassical houses. The design is by Montgomery architect C. Frank Galliher. The house sits on about 2.6 acres and measures roughly 62 by 62 feet.
Two identical front porticos with Corinthian columns face Broad and Mutual Streets. A pediment with an oval window tops each portico. A wrap-around porch runs along the front, west, and east sides. Inside, a central hall divides the first floor into a library and two bedrooms on one side, and a dining room and a salon on the other. The library mantel features reliefs of a horse and a mule, nodding to Holman’s early business. The second floor mirrors the layout with bedrooms and baths.
Holman began in the livestock trade in the 1890s, building his fortune through other ventures such as a cotton mill and a Buick dealership. The house cost about $75,000 to build. After Holman’s death in 1960, the home stayed in the family until 1982, when it was purchased by Jack Mizell. Ozark bought the house in 2013 for $296,000. The J. D. Holman House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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