[2] Hawthorne is included in the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.

[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 7, 1994, due to its architectural significance.

It was eventually enlarged to a large house with over 30 rooms and a full basement by the Manning family, who used the forced labor of enslaved people to work the plantation.

[2] The property was later purchased by Dr. James Daniel Browder; by the end of the Civil War he had downsized most of the existing structure and completed the house as it stands today.

He and the client designed the house with inspiration drawn from Samuel Sloan's 1852 publication of The Model Architect.