[1] Edward Vason Jones, known for his architectural work on the interiors at the White House during the 1960s and 70s, called it one of the finest Greek Revival antebellum mansions in the Southeast.

The house was purchased from Watts by John McGee Parkman, a local banker, for the sum of $65,000 on February 12, 1864.

The military governor of Alabama, Wager Swayne, had his Reconstruction authorities take possession of the bank and arrest Parkman.

A large share of the money for buying the house came through a $50,000 bequest from the estate of Robert Daniel Sturdivant, with a provision for setting up a museum in the city.

The property continues to be maintained into the present day by the City of Selma, Dallas County, and the Sturdivant Museum Association.

A low pyramidal hipped roof covers the main block of the house, as well as the front and rear porticoes.

They both feature door surrounds with Corinthian columns and are ringed by paneled pilasters, topped by plaster cornices.

Sturdivant Hall is featured in a short story by Kathryn Tucker Windham, in her 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey.