List of historic houses in Kentucky

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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. 1850's

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