{{short description|Historic house in Alabama, United States}} {{Use American English|date=September 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox NRHP | name = Waldwic | nrhp_type = hd | image = Waldwic Plantation 02.jpg | caption = Front elevation in 2008 | location = Gallion, Alabama | coordinates = {{coord|32|29|4.99|N|87|42|49.64|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Alabama#USA | area = | built = 1840, renovated 1852.<ref name="gamble">Gamble, Robert ''Historic architecture in Alabama: a guide to styles and types, 1810-1930'', pages 89-90 . Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1990. {{ISBN|0-8173-1134-3}}.</ref> | architect = | architecture = | added = July 22, 1994 | visitation_num = | visitation_year = | refnum = 94000684<ref name="NRIS">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> | mpsub = Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission<ref name="MPS">{{NRHP url|id=64500009|title=Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings MPS}} NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 6 March 2008.</ref> | nocat = yes }}
'''Waldwic''' is a historic Carpenter Gothic plantation house and historic district located on the west side of Alabama Highway 69, south of Gallion, Alabama, United States. Built as the main residence and headquarters of a forced-labor farm worked by enslaved people, Waldwic is included in the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.<ref name="MPS"/> The main house and plantation outbuildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1994.<ref name="NRIS"/>
==History== The house for Robert Gracey started in 1840 as "an unpretentious galleried farmhouse"<ref name="sah-archipedia.org">https://sah-archipedia.org/detail%2Fcontent%2Fentries%2FAL-01-065-0017.xml?q=%28section%3AAL-01%29%20AND%20decade%3A1840s {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> and was then expanded and renovated in the Gothic Revival style in 1852.<ref name="gamble"/> The facade then resembled a rendering of “Waldwic Cottage” from volume two of William H. Ranlett’s "The Architect: A series of original designs for domestic and ornamental cottages and villas (1851)."<ref name="sah-archipedia.org"/> Ranlett could have been involved with the design of the renovation as he was retained by other wealthy southerners, but just as likely is that Ranlett's design inspired the house and name (to which a “k” was eventually added). The carpentry work was completed by Peter Lee and Joe Glasgow, skilled craftsmen enslaved by Captain H.A. Tayloe, who owned the neighboring Macon Station Plantation. Lee and Glasgow also built St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Prairieville, Alabama) (1853–1854) in the Carpenter Gothic style and the decorative interior woodwork. Gracey's widow remarried after Robert's death to Willis Bocock in 1856. The 1860 United States census of Marengo County indicates that Bocock enslaved 127 people in that year and the 1870s map of Hale County lists him as the owner still.<ref name="1860CEN">{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajac/almarengo.htm|title=1860 United States Census - Slave schedule, Marengo County, Alabama|access-date=2008-12-30|work=United States Census Bureau|publisher=Rootsweb|archive-date=December 7, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207091154/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajac/almarengo.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The Waldwic property was originally within Marengo County, but this portion of Marengo was added to Hale County upon its creation in 1867.<ref name="MARENGOHER">{{cite book |title=The heritage of Marengo County, Alabama |author=Marengo County Heritage Book Committee |year=2000 |publisher=Heritage Publishing Consultants |location=Clanton, Alabama |isbn=1-891647-58-X |pages=24 }}</ref> Robert Gracey's granddaughter, Bertha Gracey Steele, married at Waldwic in 1889 to William Micajah Spencer. He was a lawyer and was elected to the Alabama Senate in 1901.<ref name="HISTALA">{{cite book |title=History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/historyalabamaa02owengoog |first=Thomas McAdory |last=Owen|year=1921 |publisher=The S. J. Clarke publishing company |location=Chicago |pages=1607 }}</ref> The house is one of only about 20 Gothic Revival residential structures remaining in Alabama.<ref name="gamble"/> Other historic Gothic Revival residences in the area include Ashe Cottage in Demopolis and Fairhope Plantation in Uniontown.<ref name="NRIS"/>
{{Gallery |title=Gallery |width=150 |height=150 |align=center |File:Waldwic Plantation 01.jpg|Front and side elevation in 2008 |File:Waldwic 1.jpg|HABS photo of the main house at Waldwic, taken in 1935 |File:Waldwic Plantation 04.jpg|Servant's quarters in 2008 |File:Waldwic 5.jpg|The same servant's quarters in 1935 |File:Waldwic 3.jpg|Parlor windows in 1935 |File:Waldwic 4.jpg|Parlor fireplace in 1935 |File:Map of Waldwic Plantation, Gallion, Hale County, Alabama.png }}
==References== {{Commons category|Waldwic}} {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{HABS |survey=AL-260 |id=al0210 |title=Waldwic House & Outbuildings, State Route 69, Gallion, Hale County, AL |photos=11 |color= |dwgs= |data= |cap=}} *[https://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-6239 Photograph of Waldwic in 2004] *[http://www.archives.state.al.us/famous/academy/w_spence.html Biography of William Micajah Spencer, Jr.] *[http://www.archives.state.al.us/famous/academy/w_spenc3.html Biography of William Micajah Spencer, III]
{{NRHP in Hale County, Alabama}} {{National Register of Historic Places}}
Category:History of slavery in Alabama Category:National Register of Historic Places in Hale County, Alabama Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama Category:Carpenter Gothic architecture in Alabama Category:Houses completed in 1840 Category:Plantation houses in Alabama Category:Houses in Hale County, Alabama Category:Historic districts in Hale County, Alabama Category:Historic American Buildings Survey in Alabama Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama