This is an alphabetical list of historic houses in the U.S. state of Kentucky.[1]
List of historic houses in Kentucky edit
Listing includes date of the start of construction:
- Abner Gaines House (Walton) – Federal-style house; built 1814
- Allenhurst (Scott County) – Greek Revival style mansion designed by Thomas Lewinski; built 1850
- Audubon (Scott County) – Greek Revival style house; built 1829
- Ashland (Lexington) – Estate of American statesmen Henry Clay; built c. 1806
- Beeches (Frankfort) – Federal-style house; built 1800
- Ben Johnson House (Bardstown) – Home of Lieutenant Governor William Johnson and his son Ben Johnson; built 1851
- Berry Mansion (Frankfort) – Colonial Revival style house; built 1900
- Boxhill (Glenview) – Georgian Revival style mansion; built c. 1906
- Branham House (Georgetown) – Part of South Broadway Neighborhood District; built 1795
- Bullock-Clifton House (Louisville) – Federal-style farmhouse. Oldest surviving wood-frame structure in Jefferson County; built 1834
- Carneal House (Covington) – Oldest house in the city. Constructed by Thomas D. Carneal, one of Covington's founders; built 1815
- Catlett House/Beechmoor (Catlettsburg) – Home of Alexander and Horatio Catlett, founders of Catlettsburg; built 1812
- Colson House (Middlesboro) – Oldest remaining house in Bell County; built 1800
- Conrad-Caldwell House (Louisville) – Richardsonian-style mansion located within the St. James-Belgravia Historic District; built 1893
- Dillon Asher Cabin (Clay County, Kentucky); built 1799 [2]
- Croghan Mansion (Louisville) – Home of George Rogers Clark and his sister, Lucy Clark Croghan. Remains the only residence still in existence west of the Appalachian Mountains to have sheltered Louis and Clark; built c. 1790
- D. W. Griffith House (La Grange) – Home of movie director D. W. Griffith; built 1905
- Daniel Carter Beard Boyhood Home (Covington) – Home of Daniel Carter Beard, a founder of Boy Scouts of America; built 1821
- Dinsmore Homestead (Boone County) – Greek Revival and Federal-style home; built 1841
- Elijah Herndon House (California) – Federal-style home; built 1818
- Elkwood (Georgetown) – built 1810
- Farmington (Louisville) – Home of James Speed, 27th U.S. Attorney General. Based on plans by Thomas Jefferson; built 1815
- Federal Hill (Bardstown) – Home of senator John Rowan. Served as Stephen Foster's inspiration for the song My Old Kentucky Home; built 1795
- Fielding Bradford House (Scott County)
- Foster Sanford House, aka Lady Burlington (Burlington, Kentucky) – Grand Federal Style with Greek Revival c. 1831
- Francis M. Stafford House (Paintsville) – Home of John Stafford, a founder of Paintsville. Oldest surviving house in Johnson County; built 1843
- Fryer House (Butler) – Home of pioneer Walter Fryer; built 1811
- Glen Willis (Frankfort) – built 1815
- Hausgen House (Anchorage) – Colonial Revival style house; built c. 1890
- Hawkins House (Georgetown) – Has served as a ropewalk and a dormitory for the Georgetown Female Seminary. Became a residential home in 1858; built c. 1790
- Hikes-Hunsinger House (Louisville) – Federal-style residence; built 1824
- Hunt-Morgan House (Lexington) – Home of John Wesley Hunt, the first millionaire west of the Allegheny Mountains and John Hunt Morgan. Birthplace of Thomas Hunt Morgan, the only Kentuckian to be awarded a Nobel Prize; built 1814
- Hurricane Hall (Fayette County) – built 1794
- Jacob Eversole Cabin (Perry County) – built ca 1789–1804, the oldest remaining building in Eastern Kentucky[3]
- James M. Lloyd House (Mount Washington) – Italianate and Late Victorian style residence; built c. 1880
- Jesse R. Zeigler House (Frankfort) – Only building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Kentucky; built 1910
- John Andrew Miller House (Scott County) – Home of pioneer John Andrew Miller. Served as a community shelter from Native American attacks; built 1785
- Johnston-Jacobs House (Georgetown) – Greek Revival style brick home; built 1795
- John Tanner House (Petersburg) – Oldest surviving home in Boone County; built 1810
- Julius Blackburn House (Scott County) – Home to American Revolutionary War veteran Julius Blackburn; built 1799
- Kentucky Governor's Mansion (Frankfort) – Beaux-Arts style residence for the Governor of Kentucky; built 1912
- Landward House (Louisville) – Brick Italianate mansion; built 1871
- Liberty Hall (Frankfort) – Home to many notable Americans including John Brown and Margaret Wise Brown; built 1796
- Lincliff (Glenview) – Georgian Revival mansion; built 1911
- Lloyd Tilghman House (Paducah) – Home of Lloyd Tilghman; built 1852
- Longview Farm House (Adairville) – A Italianate and Greek Revival style home; built 1851
- Martin Castle (Fayette County) – European-inspired castle built by Rex and Caroline Martin. Currently serves as a hotel; built 1969[4]
- Mary Todd Lincoln House (Lexington) – Home of former first lady, Mary Todd Lincoln; built c. 1803
- Mayo Mansion (Ashland) – A Beaux-Arts architecture mansion built in 1917 by Alice Jane Mayo
- Mayo Mansion (Paintsville) – Home of John C. C. Mayo; built 1905
- McClure-Shelby House (Jessamine County) – Greek Revival and Federal style residence; built 1840
- McConnell House (Greenup County) – Federal, Georgian and Greek Revival style residence; built in 1834
- Milliken Memorial Community House (Elkton) – First privately donated community house in the United States; built 1928
- Millspring (Georgetown) – Home of Elijah Craig, founder of Georgetown; built 1789
- Moses Tyler Stone Cottage (Louisville) – Home of Moses Tyler; built 1795
- Old Governor's Mansion (Frankfort) – Currently serves as the official residence of the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. Serves as the oldest executive residence still in use in the United States; built 1796
- Orlando Brown House (Frankfort) – Greek Revival style home designed by Gideon Shryock, designer of the Kentucky State Capitol; built 1835
- Payne-Desha House (Georgetown) – Home of Robert Payne, a war hero from the Battle of the Thames; built 1814
- Peterson-Dumesnil House (Louisville) – Victorian-Italianate mansion; built c. 1869
- Pope Villa (Lexington) – Home of former John Pope, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect of the U.S. Capitol Building; built 1811
- Presley Tyler Farm House (Louisville) – Georgian-Federalist Style House; built c. 1844
- Farnsley-Moremen House (Louisville) – Brick I-house with a two-story Greek Revival portico; built 1837
- Riverview at Hobson Grove (Bowling Green) – Italianate-style mansion; built c. 1850s
- Rob Morris Home (La Grange) – Home of Rob Morris, the second and last poet laureate of Freemasonry and the founder of the Order of the Eastern Star.
- Ronald-Brennan House (Louisville) – Italianate-style townhouse; built 1868
- Rose Hill (Louisville) – Antebellum-style residence; built 1852
- Samuel May House (Prestonsburg) – Home of former state senator and representative, Samuel May, built 1816
- Shropshire House (Georgetown) – Home of Confederate governor of Kentucky, George W. Johnson; built 1814
- Thomas Edison House (Louisville) – Home of Thomas Edison from 1866 to 1867; built c. 1850s
- Thomas Huey Farm (Big Bone) – Gothic Revival style home; built 1865
- Ward Hall (Georgetown) – Home of Junius and Matilda Viley Ward, built circa 1857
- Waveland (Danville) – Home of Willis Green, built 1797
- White Hall (Richmond) – Home of Cassius Marcellus Clay, cousin of Henry Clay; built 1799
- Wickland (Bardstown) – Home of two governors of Kentucky and one Governor of Louisiana; built 1813
- Wickland (Shelbyville) – Classical Revival mansion; built 1901
- Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum (Shelby County) – Birthplace of Whitney Young, an American civil rights leader; built 1921
- William Forst House (Russellville) – Site at which the Confederate government of Kentucky was formed; built 1820
- William Hickman House (Winchester, Kentucky) – Federal-style home; built 1814
- Wooldridge-Rose House (Pewee Valley) – Colonial Revival style residence; built 1905
- Zachary Taylor House (Louisville) – Boyhood home of 12th President, Zachary Taylor; built 1790
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Unless otherwise noted, all information related to this list of historic homes was taken from the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved on 2010-09-11
- ^ https://www.kentuckytourism.com/beverly/history-heritage/historic-districts-sites/dillon-asher-cabin
- ^ Stidham, Sadie W., 1986, Pioneer Families of Leslie County. Kentucke Imprints, Berea, Kentucky, 548 p., p.177.
- ^ Holland, Jeffrey Scott; Moran, Mark; Sceurman, Mark (2008). "Personalized Properties". Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. New York, New York: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 1-4027-5438-8. Retrieved on 2010-09-11