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The house was built in the 1850s

Photo courtesy of Uptown Shelby Association

The Fulenwider-Ebeltoft House is one of the few surviving ante-bellum buildings in Shelby. The two-story white frame house is one of three surviving mid-19th-century dwellings in Shelby that combines elements of the Piedmont vernacular, typical of traditional architecture of this region, with popular practices of the contemporary Greek Revival style. The strict bilateral symmetry and the low hipped roof are characteristic Greek Revival features of the house. However, a long porch on the principal façade, the entrance on the long side of the house and the paired interior central chimneys are all vernacular Piedmont characteristics. The prominent twin brick chimneys are handsomely detailed with brick corbelling.

[photo] The bilateral symmetry is a Greek Revival feature
Photo courtesy of Uptown Shelby Association

Although Swiss pioneer Eli Fulenwider of the well-known ironworks family built the house in the early 1850s, the house is better known as the Ebeltoft House. T.W. Ebeltoft, who retired from the Baptist ministry and operated a confectionery and bookstore in uptown Shelby, later sold the house to Judge James L. Webb. Judge Webb served in the State Senate and then spent 32 years as a court official, first as district solicitor and later as a Superior Court Judge. Governor O. Max Gardner, one of the Shelby Dynasty, also lived in the house for a short period after he married the Judge's daughter Faye. Both the Webbs and Gardners moved to Webbly in 1911.

The Fulenwider-Ebeltoft House is located at 323 S. Washington St. in the Central Shelby Historic District and today houses a software business, open during normal business hours.

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