Monroe County Historical Buildings

Spears Place

Spears Place. This house is located 1.5 miles E of the junction of Meredith Road and Route 216 in the Vernon Quad. It was built between 1876 and 1900. It is a two-story, frame, center passage I house, with a single-story frame ell...

W.E. Webb Place Slave Quarters

W.E.Webb Place Slave Quarters, Presently known as Chapel Place. This structure is located 3.75 miles N of Route 216 on Meredith Creek Road in the Vernon Quad. It was built in 1858 and was the center of the Blythe community and riverboat...

Frame I House

Frame I House. This house is located 1100' SE of Route 214 at Kettle Creek in Blacks Ferry, KY. It was built around 1890 and is a 5 bay, two-story, frame I house with a rear ell addition. MSS 203 B11 F4 #51

Dotson House

Dotson House. This house is located in Martinsburg, in Blacks Ferry, KY. It was constructed in the 1880's as a residence and inn to serve the riverboat landing at Martinsburg. The front of the house (pictured) faces the Cumberland River.

Old Brick House

Old Brick House. This house is located NW of Tompkinsville near East For Creek on County House Road/ Highway 1366 in the Gamaliel Quad. The original brick house, built around 1805, was the residence of the William Howard Family from North...

Raspberry Celsor Home

Raspberry Celsor Home. This house is located .6 mile NE of Salt Lick Creek on Old Bugtussle road in the Fountain Run Quad. It is a two-story frame house, built around 1890. Celsor traded a mare for the 75 acres of land where the house...

New Liberty General Baptist Church

New Liberty General Baptist Church. This structure is located 1.3 miles NE of Bugtussle on Old Rocky Hill Road in the Fountain Run Quad. It was built in 1894 and was the only General Baptist Church in the county at that time. Newt...

John Akers Home

John Akers Home. This house is located 1.8 miles NE of Bugtussle and Old Rocky Hill Road in the Fountain Run Quad. It was built in 1820, and was originally on the main thoroughfare from Bugtussle to Fountain Run. MSS 203 B11 F3 #14

Highohkie Baptist Church

Highohkie Baptist Church. This structure is located at the NW junction of Bugtussle and McDonald Road in Fountain Run. The church was formally organized in 1891, but a structure was built in 1894 when Sam Patterson donated land. In...

Old John Furlong Place

Old John Furlong Place. This house is located 2.3 miles N of Route 200 on Lebanon Church Road in Fountain Run, KY. It is a single-story frame ell house with a 5 bay front. It has an interior porch at the rear of the house and an open...

Kate Saddler Home

Kate Saddler Home. This house is located 300' SE of Barren River on Deep Ford Road in the Fountain Run Quad. It is a single-story log cabin with a single bay front. It is a single pen, square notching log cabin with a rear shed...

Coon Foot School

Coon Foot School. This structure is located .8 mile NW of Barren River on Deep Ford Road in the Fountain Run Quad. It was originally built down the road from where it is presently located. It was erected in 1896, and is presently known...

Bailey Howe Grocery

Bailey Howe Grocery. This structure is located 800' NW of the junction of Route 100 and Route 87 in Fountain Run, KY. It is a two-story frame I structure that was built in 1920. MSS 203 B11 F3 #67

Jimmy Fraim Home

Jimmy Fraim Home. This house is located 800' NE of the junction of Route 100 and Route 98 in the Fountain Run Quad. It was built in 1868 and is sitting behind the two-story structure. John Fraim was the father of Jimmy Fraim. John...

Possible Home of Will Neal

Possible Home of Will Neal. This home is located on the NW junction of route 100 and Route 87 in Fountain Run. It was built in the 1920's and was possibly the home of Will Neal at some point. Neal was a joint owner of the Cheed Neal Coffee...

Burnett Feed Mill

Burnett Feed Mill. This structure is located 800' NW of Route 87 on Route 2170 in Fountain Run, KY. It is a two-story frame structure with two open overhang porches that extent the width of the building. MSS 203 B11 F3 #78

D & H Grocery and Hardware

D & H Grocery and Hardware. This structure is located 50' SE of the junction of Route 2170 and Route 87 in Fountain Run, KY. It was originally owned by Vernice Cooksey. It was built in 1937 and is a single-story frame structure with an...

Edward Smalling Home

Edward Smalling Home. This house is located 1.5 miles NW of Old Rocky Hill Church on Old Bugtussle Road in the Fountain Run Quad. It was built in 1890 and is a two-story frame ell house with a 3 bay front and a rear shed addition. MSS...

John D. Yokley Home

John D. Yokley Home. This house is located 2.3 miles E of Fountain Run, KY on Route 100. It was built in 1850, but the present structure is a product of many additions to the original front left room and upstairs (additions taking place...

Maple Grove Missionary Baptist Church

Maple Grove Missionary Baptist Church. This structure is located 1.7 miles E of Fountain Run, KY on Route 100. It was built in 1904 and is a single-story frame structure. MSS 203 B11 F3 #94

New Design Church

New Design Church. This structure is located .4 mile NW of Grooms Branch on Lebanon Church Road in the Fountain Run Quad. The church was established in 1921 and served the Lamb community. It is a single-story frame structure. MSS 203...

Mrs. Harland Home

Mrs. Harland Home. This house is located 500' NE of Route 87 on Route 2170 in Fountain Run, KY. It was built in the 1880's and is a 1 1/2-story frame house that has a 3 bay front. MSS 203 B11 F3 #104

Log House

Log House. This house is located 500' NW of Route 100, .4 miles E of Fountain Run, KY. It is a single-story log house with a 2 bay front and a gable tin roof. Due to the block foundation, it appears to have been restored or...

Frame Ell House

Frame Ell House. This house is located 800' NW of the junction of Bugtussle and McDonald Road in the Fountain Run Quad. It was built around 1870 and is a two-story frame ell house with a 4 bay front. MSS 203 B11 F3 #111

Moore's Mill

Moore's Mill. This structure is located 3.4 miles Se of Route 1011 on Route 163 in the Tompkinsville Quad. It is an 11 bay, two-story frame building with a tin gable roof. It has vertical board and sawn weathering. It was originally...

Free Town Church

Free Town Church, presently known as Mt. Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church. This historic structure is located 1.9 miles N of Route 792 on Route 100 in the Gamaliel Quad. It was erected in 1848 by George Pipkin, Albert Howard...

Whiteside Place

Whiteside Place. This house is located .25 mile E of Route 216 on Radure Road in the Vernon Quad. This farm has been in this family since 1806. Originally, Benjamin Hassell built a log cabin where the house stands today. This house was...

Johnny Williams Farm

Johnny Williams Farm. This house is located .75 miles E of Radure Road on Route 216 in the Vernon Quad. The house was built around 1900. It is a 7 bay, two-story I house with a shed addition, and ell addition, a hipped chimney, and 4/4...

Moses Kirkpatrick Barn

Moses Kirkpatrick Barn. This structure is located .6 mile SE of the junction of Route 100 and Route 212 on Route 212 in the Vernon Quad. This is the barn on the site of the house of Moses Kirkpatrick, who moved from North Carolina, to...

Cass Ross Place

Cass Ross Place. This house is located 800' W of Route 100 on Little Meshack Creek Road in the Vernon Quad. It is presently known as Ross place. The small outbuilding, located on the same site as a 7 bay, two-story I house and barn...

High Sylvie Place

High Sylvie Place. This house is located 1.1 miles SE of Les Mosby Road on Hi Sylvie Road in the Gamaliel Quad. It was built in the early 1800's by a man named Mulkey (a brother or cousin of the Mulkey who built the meetinghouse in the...

Butler Barn

Butler Barn. This structure is located on Poplar Log Road, W of Poplar Log School in the Tompkinsville Quad. It was owned by Floyd Butler at the time of Peterson's survey, and was being used as a tobacco barn. It is a part log, part...

Strode Place

Strode Place. This home is located .3 mile SW of Route 63 on Fox Hill-Bailey Store Road in the Tompkinsville Quad. It is presently known as Sims Place, and was the home of Earlie Botts for 40 years. Built around 1920, it is a 3 bay...

George Goad Place

George Goad Place. This house is located 200' Se of Vincent Road in the Tompkinsville Quad. It is a 4 bay, two-story frame dwelling with a two-story rear T addition that was built in 1933.

Ebenezer Church of Christ

Ebenezer Church of Christ. This structure is located 1.1 miles SW of Route 1366 on Ebenezer School Road in the Tompkinsville Quad. The church was originally built at Old Mulkey, but it was relocated to this site in 1916. MSS 203 B11 F3...

Athens Missionary Baptist Church

Athens Missionary Baptist Church. This structure is located 1.1 miles SW of Route 1366 on Ebenezer School Road in the Tompkinsville Quad. The congregation organized in 1860, but this structure was not built until 1916. The original...

Beau Simpson Place

Beau Simpson Place. This house is located .6 miles W of Hi Sylvie Road on a private road 1.3 miles S of Ebenezer School Road in the Gamaliel Quad. Mr. B.H. Simpson built it as the kitchen to a larger dwelling. The current owner, Eugene...

Maude Dunna Home (Dunna Farm)

Maude Dunna Home (Dunna Farm). This house is located on Route 5 in Tompkinsville, KY. It was built around 1880. It is a 4 bay, 1 1/2-story frame Cumberland style house with a front domer and a rear shed roof addition. MSS 203 B11 F3 #56

Andrew Bowe Home

Andrew Bowe Home. This house is located .3 mile N of Poplar Log School Road on a private road, 1.8 miles W of Route 63 in the Tompkinsville Quad. It was built around 1930 for Jim Tom Strode's wife Laura. It is a 3 bay, 1 1/2-story house...

House with 2 Brick Chimneys

House with 2 Brick Chimneys. This house is located .4 mile W of Cedar Hill Road on Route 63 in the Tompkinsville Quad. It is a 3 bay, 1 1/2-story house with a tin roof, two domers, and two brick chimneys. There is a black shed addition...