Travis Hendrix was elected to House District 55 in Jefferson County. Kelvin Datcher was elected to take the Jefferson County seat of veteran John Rogers, who served over 40 years in the House.

It may well decide which party has the majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives. The federal courts designed this district to elect a Democrat to Congress from the Heart of Dixie.

Completed in 1897 when Wright was 31 years old, the three-story house on Fair Oaks Avenue has an arresting facade that mixes pagoda-like roofs with ornamental brick work, columns and colonettes.