Fearn-King Home, Franklin Street

Dr. Thomas Fearn, known for his medical research with quinine and his development of Huntsville's first water system, built this federal-style house ca. 1820. In 1847 he hired George Steele to modify its facade in Greek Revival style. Lee Harless, Jr. 1978 sketch. Present owners are Mr. & Mrs. Olin B. King.

"We played all over the yard and house in the day when children were supposed to be seen and not heard. Uncle Willis was a colonel of the War Between the States and woe to anyone who referred to it as 'civil strife'. The Confederacy was defeated because it wore itself out whipping the Yankees."

Clara Mastin Averette