Built in 1836 for Richard Henry Adams and Anna Carter Harrison, both natives of Virginia.

Altwood is a historic plantation house located near Faunsdale, Alabama.^[1] It was built in 1836 by Richard H. Adams^[4] and began as a log dogtrot house. It was then expanded until it came to superficially resemble a Tidewater-type cottage.^[5] Brought to the early Alabama frontier by settlers from the Tidewater and Piedmont regions of Virginia, this vernacular house-type is usually a story-and-a-half in height, displays strict symmetry, and is characterized by prominent end chimneys flanking a steeply pitched longitudinal gable roof that is often pierced by dormer windows.^[6]

The house was moved to Cedar Crest Farms in 1988 and restored by members of the Rankin family.