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Beeches (Frankfort, Kentucky)

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Built
  
c.1800, 1818

Area
  
2 ha

Added to NRHP
  
9 February 1979

NRHP Reference #
  
79000985

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Beeches (Frankfort, Kentucky)

Location
  
Off U.S. 421, Frankfort, Kentucky

Similar
  
Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort Cemetery, Buffalo Trace Distillery, Floral clock, Old Statehouse

Beeches is a brick house in Frankfort, Kentucky whose main block was built in 1818. In 1979, when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it was in a great lawn in a park-like setting, in contrast to 20th century encroachments on all sides.

It was deemed notable as an outstanding Federal-style structure and as one of just two surviving nineteenth-century buildings along the Leestown Pike in Franklin County, Kentucky. The other building, Glen Willis, one-fourth mile to the southwest, was already listed on the National Register.

It has a one-and-a-half-story section that was a c.1800 brick house, and a two-and-a-half-story main block, also in brick. It has later brick and frame additions to the rear and east side.

References

Beeches (Frankfort, Kentucky) Wikipedia