The Ross Knox House is a historic Tudor Revival style residence in Mobile, Alabama

Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...

, United States

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. The two-story brick and stucco house was completed in 1929. It is considered one of the best Tudor Revival houses in Mobile by the Alabama Historical Commission

Alabama Historical Commission

The Alabama Historical Commission is the historic preservation agency for the U. S. state of Alabama. The agency was created by an act of the state legislature in 1966 with a mission of safeguarding Alabama’s historic buildings and sites. It consists of twenty members appointed by the state...

. Built in the 1920s upper-class suburb of County Club Estates, it was designed by architect John Platt Roberts.

Architecture

The front elevation gives the appearance of a one-story Tudor cottage, with the rear revealing a full second story. The exterior architecture features steeply pitched gables, half-timbering

Timber framing

Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...

 with stucco infill, prominent chimneys, and casement window

Casement window

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History

The house was bought in 1933 by Ross Knox, the president of the Lucas E. Moore Stave Company of Georgia

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, a cooperage

Cooper (profession)

Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staved vessels of a conical form, of greater length than breadth, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads...

 and supply company. He sold it in 1942. In 1959 it was bought by a local judge, Herndon Inge, Jr. It served as Inge's residence for over 40 years. His experiences as a German

Germany

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 POW

Prisoner of war

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 during World War II

World War II

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 were featured in the Ken Burns

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' PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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 documentary, The War

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. Following
Inge's ownership, the house was purchased by the John A. Roberts Jr. family in 2002. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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on December 30, 2008.