Brie's Hill, a historic house, is one of Alabama's earliest surviving, and most significant, examples of the so-called "Tidewater-type" dwelling. Brought to the early Alabama plantation frontier by settlers from the Tidewater and Piedmont regions of Virginia, this vernacular house-type is usually a story-and-a-half in height, and characterized by prominent end chimneys flanking a steeply pitched roof often pierced by dormer windows. The type has entered popular American culture as the so-called "Williamsburg cottage" (after the 18th-century capital of the colony of Virginia).