List of historic houses in Kentucky

This is an alphabetical list of historic houses in the U.S. state of Kentucky.^[1]

List of historic houses in Kentucky

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

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Kentucky
• List of Registered Historic Places in Kentucky
• Oldest buildings in the United States

References

External links

• The Castle Post
• Liberty Hall National Historic Site
• Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate
• Historic Locust Grove
• Riverside, Farnsley-Moremen Landing

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