{{short description|Historic house in Alabama, United States}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Bass-Perry House | nrhp_type = | image = Bass-Perry House Seale AL.JPG | caption = The Bass-Perry House in 2011 | nearest_city= Seale, Alabama | coordinates={{coord|32|20|46|N|85|7|57|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Alabama#USA | built = {{Start date|1840}} | architecture = Greek Revival | added = January 19, 1976 | area = {{convert|8|acre}} | refnum = 76000355<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}

The '''Bass-Perry House''' is a historic plantation house in Seale, Alabama, U.S.

The house was built between 1840 and 1844 for Hartwell Bass, who came from Virginia and used the forced labor of enslaved people to grow cotton on a large farm. Bass was a trustee of the Good Hope Male and Female Academy.<ref name="npsform">{{cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: Bass-Perry House|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/4683b409-0764-43e1-af4a-4049668675c1/|website=National Park Service|publisher=United States Department of the Interior|accessdate=May 13, 2017}}</ref> It was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style.<ref name="npsform"/> When Bass died in the early 1840s, it was inherited by his widow, Elizabeth, and her son-in-law, Patrick Henry Perry.<ref name="npsform"/> The house remained in the family until 1939.<ref name="npsform"/>

The house was owned by Hillary Mott from 1939 to 1968.<ref name="npsform"/> Mott was the president and later chairman of the Nehi Corporation as well as the director of the Southern Industrial Council based in Nashville, Tennessee.<ref name="npsform"/> By 1968, he sold the house to Roy Green.<ref name="npsform"/>

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 19, 1976.<ref name="nps">{{cite web|title=Bass-Perry House|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/76000355|website=National Park Service|publisher=United States Department of the Interior|accessdate=May 13, 2017}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{National Register of Historic Places}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bass-Perry House}} Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama Category:Greek Revival architecture in Alabama Category:Houses completed in 1840 Category:Houses in Russell County, Alabama Category:Plantations in Alabama Category:1840 establishments in Alabama

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