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Haphazard is a historic house located on Pleasant Valley Road in Owensboro, Kentucky. The house overlooks the Ohio River , and its name is probably derived from the river's eddies . The property which Haphazard was built on was originally owned by George Mason , a signatory to the U.S. Constitution , who was given the land in a grant surveyed ...
By the 1960s the area had high crime and unemployment rates, causing massive population loss. Many of the old shotgun houses have been razed and housing projects built in their place. Since the 1950s, Smoketown has been massively depopulated. As of 2000, the population of Smoketown was 2,116, a decrease of over 38% from 1990.
Oldest surviving house in Johnson County; built 1843; Fryer House – Home of pioneer Walter Fryer; built 1811; Glen Willis – built 1815; Hausgen House – Colonial Revival style house; built c. 1890; Hawkins House – Has served as a ropewalk and a dormitory for the Georgetown Female Seminary. Became a residential home in 1858; built c. 1790
The Knight House is the oldest standing structure and residence in Hopkinsville and Christian County Kentucky. Squire Earick House: Louisville, Kentucky: 1815 Residence Oldest woodframe house in Louisville [6] Carneal House: Covington, Kentucky: 1815 Residence Oldest building in Covington Elijah Herndon House: California, Kentucky: 1818 Residence
It is reputed to be the oldest official executive residence officially still in use in the Contiguous United States, as the mansion is the official residence of the lieutenant governor of Kentucky. [citation needed] In 1796, the Kentucky General Assembly appropriated funds to provide a house to accommodate the governor. Construction was ...
The Pogue House is a historic house in Maysville, Kentucky.It was built in 1845 on a fifteen-acre lot for industrialist Michael Ryan. The property was named "Riverside" by Ryan since it sits on a hillside with a sweeping ten-mile (16 km) vista of the Ohio River.
The William Campbell House in Stamping Ground, Kentucky, also known as the Campbell-Gayle House, is an early house believed to have been built in c.1790-1800. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The Zeigler house is the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure built in Kentucky during the lifetime of the famous architect. The design came from a chance meeting between Zeigler and Wright while both were traveling to Europe in late October 1909. They struck up a conversation and the commission of this structure, completed the following year, was ...