Some flaws and limitations of the original town plan had become apparent by the late 1820s and 1830s. The typical town lots, at wide and deep, were not conducive to construction of the stately homes desired by the more prosperous residents. Some grand mansions were completed by the late 1820s. One of the first was the brick -story Federal-style Allen Glover house at the foot of Capitol street. It was one of the, if not the first, neoclassical structures to be built in Marengo County. Glover built Bluff Hall (1832) for his daughter, Sarah Serena, and son-in-law, Francis Strother Lyon.