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Martin House (Greenville, Kentucky)

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Built
  
1870 (1870)

Opened
  
1870

Added to NRHP
  
15 August 1985

NRHP Reference #
  
85001900

Area
  
2 ha

Martin House (Greenville, Kentucky)

Location
  
144 E. Main Cross St., Greenville, Kentucky

MPS
  
Greenville Kentucky MRA

Architectural styles
  
Colonial Revival architecture, Italianate architecture

The Martin House is a historic house located at 144 E. Main Cross St. in Greenville, Kentucky. The house was built in 1870 by the Brank family, whose 1840 house at the same site had burned down that year. The home initially had an Italianate design which featured decorative bracketing beneath its eaves. Tobacco merchant Rufus Martin bought the house in 1899, and he and his son remodeled it in the following decade. Martin's additions were mainly done in the Colonial Revival style and included a front porch supported by Tuscan columns. After Martin died in 1902, his son inherited the house; as of the 1980s, the home remained in his family.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 1985.

References

Martin House (Greenville, Kentucky) Wikipedia