The largest home in Alabama, famous for its guitar-shaped driveway, is for sale. See inside the Versailles of Shoal Creek.
Explore Alabama's largest home, a 54,000-square-foot mansion with 15 bedrooms and 16 bathrooms, that recently hit the market for $5 million.
May 2, 2025 - 20:59
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The home in Shoal Creek is the largest in Alabama.
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A home believed to be the largest in Alabama is on the market for $5 million.
The 54,000-square-foot mansion has 15 bedrooms and 16 full bathrooms.
The Shoal Creek property includes a guest house, a guitar-shaped driveway, and a stable.
An extravagant 54,000-square-foot home in Alabama — widely reported to be the state's largest — is under contract after hitting the market for $5 million last month.
The property, listed with The Luxe Group at The Real Broker, was originally built in 1997 by then-MedPartners CEO Larry House. The house, designed in the style of a French chateau, has 15 bedrooms, 16 full bathrooms and six half-baths, a 10-car garage, 14 fireplaces, and a fully equipped guest house. And those are just the basics.
House put the home, dubbed "The Guitar House" due to its famous guitar-shaped driveway, on the market amid financial woes, AL.com reported. It has been on the market multiple times in its lifetime, once reaching a listing price of $17.9 million in 2011. It last sold for $4.8 million in 2017.
Though its current listing price of $5 million might seem a (relatively) low price tag for the largest home in a state, the average price of a house in Alabama is $228,669, Zillow reported — and the average price of a home in Birmingham, which is just 15 miles away, is $127,269. That puts this home's property value at almost 40 times the nearby city's average.
Take a look inside the "Versailles of Shoal Creek" and see what else this 27-acre property has to offer.
This is the largest home in Alabama. It's located in Shoal Creek, a gated community 15 miles outside Birmingham.
An aerial view of the property.
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The 54,000-square-foot home sits on 27 acres.
The driveway.
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The driveway's shape resembles a guitar, with hedges grown to resemble the strings.
Can you see it?
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It was inspired by the shape of the driveway at Andrew Jackson's historical home, the Hermitage, in Nashville.
It's a guitar.
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The front yard includes landscaping, sculptures, and a fountain.
A view of the front yard.
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Upon walking into the grand entryway, it's clear that this home was envisioned as a work of art.
The foyer features a giant chandelier and a fully painted domed ceiling.
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Its design was inspired by historic castles in Italy and France.
There are details everywhere you look.
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On the other side of the entryway is a grand room, which looks more like an art museum.
Underneath the grand staircase.
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Here's the view from upstairs. That fireplace is 40 feet tall and made of limestone.
There are frescos throughout.
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On one side of the staircase is one of the house's living rooms, with a TV mounted atop one of its 14 fireplaces.
The TV room.
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Behind that is a sitting room. Each archway is framed with blue drapes — its previous owner once said the home's drapes cost more than $400,000.
A sitting room.
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On the other side of the foyer is the dining room.
The dining room.
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Custom glass chandeliers like this one are seen throughout the house.
Another view of the dining room.
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If you don't feel like making a grand entrance, there are plenty of other stairwells to walk through — though they're not any less luxurious.
A side staircase.
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Another one of the home's focal points is this office, which is covered in mahogany built-in cabinets and shelving.
The office.
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The ceiling features a hand-painted mural.
It's also quite bright in here with all the windows.
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Besides the interior design touches that resemble the Palace of Versailles, the property has other amenities.
Another aerial view.
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For example, there's the wet bar that looks straight out of an Italian palazzo.
The wet bar inside the guest house.
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There's also a large wine cellar.
The wine cellar.
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There's even a home theater that looks like an old movie palace.
The home theater.
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But if you prefer to be outside, this property also has a patio …
One of the covered patios.
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… as well as a large outdoor fireplace, a guest house, an outdoor arena, stables, and more.
You can see the indoor arena and the outdoor arena.
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There's space for at least a couple of ponies.
The stables.
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The largest home in Alabama was listed for $5 million in April and is now under contract.