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Designed by Montgomery architect Frank Lockwood and constructed by Robert S. West for Dr. E. B. Wren, a physician, this house displays beauty and craftsmanship in its ornamented spire, ornate chimneys, and unusual arched stained-glass triple-windows.

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This Victorian house was built by Dr. B. B. Simms, a local physician, for use as his residence and office. A skylight illuminates the room he used for operation. The Simms family owned the home until 1983, when it was purchased by its current owner.

Built by John Hicks, a local industrialist and banker, the house was sold to the Adams family, operators of Adams Carriage and Stable Company and one time owners of Shocco Springs. The house contains 23 rooms and 9 fireplaces.

Built by Hugh McElderry for Probate Judge William Thornton, the elaborate trim work in the Carpenter's Gothic home exhibits well-executed craftmanship. When the Union Army under Gen John Croxton was passing through Talladega, Judge Thornton persuated the General to extinguish fires set in the courthouse by giving him a Masonic sign.

Built by J. Melville Thornton, this house is better known locally as Miss Nellie's Boarding House, since it was operated in that capacity for years by Miss Nellie Ellis.

William Henkel built this house. Note the double-itched gabled roof and apron porch.

Built for Judge Eli Sportridge, the house was purchased by Dr. August McAlpine in 1868. Notables who lived here were William Chilton, a Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Franklin Bowden, Sr., one of Alabama's first orators and for whom Bowden College and the town of Bowden, Georgia are named. Robert E. B. Baylor, who resided here as a young lawyer, went on to be ordained a Baptist minister and a driving force in the founding of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

This Doric Greek Revival mansion was constructed for Captain Albert Plowman who married Idora McClellan, daughter of General William B McClellan. Idora McClellan Plowman became a national published writer of plantation life stories under the pen name of Betsy Hamilton. Ralph Hammond, author of Ante-Bellum Mansions of Alabama call this "Talladega's most beautiful Doric-colonaded mansion".

This house was built for Talladega banker Sam Wilson. Dormer windows in the paramidal roof are a recent addition.