Mortimer Jordan Residence (Jordan Home)

The Mortimer Jordan Residence at 2834 Highland Avenue was built between 1906 and 1908 in the Greek Revival style, with a double-height portico on Ionic columns, and is listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and as part of the Highland Avenue Historic District. It was the home of Dr. Mortimer Jordan III, a physician who died of wounds suffered at the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. His son, Mortimer Jordan IV, lived there until selling the house in 1928, and he told the new owner's children that a ghost lived in the attic playroom and came down to the second floor every night at midnight. Whether that was a real haunting or a tale for children has never been settled, but the story has stayed with the house. Birmingham media still list it among the city's haunted homes.