The Battle-Friedman House is a Greek Revival mansion built in 1835 and one of the best-preserved antebellum homes in Alabama. It is furnished with period pieces and presents a picture of prosperous Tuscaloosa life in the decades before the Civil War. The house is open for tours several days a week.
The building is part of the city's Historic Preservation Society and sits in a neighbourhood of other 19th-century properties that give some sense of what the city looked like before its industrial and academic expansion. The grounds include a formal garden.