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National Register of Historic Places:
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The Historic Residence descriptions were taken from the Landmark Association's Architecture
of Warren County, Kentucky 1790 - 1940, Smiths Grove, Ky: AC Publications, 1984.

Carter Allen House

 Off State Road 31W, Smiths Grove vicinity. Built in 1872, the Carter Allen House is one of the two houses constructed by the local builder Harrison Barner for his brothers-in-law (see also Thomas Allen House). This house is a particularly clear example of the I-house format still popular in the area during the late 19th century. The lack of later additions gives clarity to the proportions and massing of the building, and the unusual occurance of segmental-headed openings gives the house added distinction. The late Greek Revival mouldings in the interior are original. The builderwas responsible in part for major structures in Bowling Green, including the Warren County Courthouse (National Register).

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Thomas Allen House

State Road 31W, Smiths Grove vicinity. The Thomas Allen House is one of two houses built by the local contracter Harrison P. Barner for his brothers-in-law (see also Carter Allen House). This brick house represents the archetypical Warren County Greek Revival house. Features common in Greek houses in the area (I-house form with a two-story ell, wooden lintels with bull's-eye and blocks, and rectilinear door units composed of transom and sidelights) are found here in an essentially intact structure. The house was probably built circa 1855 and the interior woodwork is original (National Register).

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W. H. Blakeley House

 1162 College Street, Bowling Green.

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Garnett Bryant House ("Glen Place")

31-W - Sunnyside Road, Oakland vicinity. Built from the 1840's for Garnett Bryant by the local builder Suvetus "Veet" Patillo, Glen Place illustrates the I-house format and architectural details that typically constitute Greek Revival styling in Warren County. The stone blocks at the ends of the cornices seem to link the house with the nearby Moses Shobe House and with the Clark House in Bowling Green. The second husband of Bryant's widow was U.S. Congressman Colonel Henry Grider. (National Register)

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Aubrey Burnett House

Aubrey Burnett Street, Oakland. This late nineteenth century cottage has retained all of its original exuberant and exotic detail - decoration that defies stylistic categorization and attests to the delight at that time in machined architectural ornament. It is one of the best examples of its type in the county. (National Register)

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David C. Campbell House

 Beech Bend Road, Plum Springs vicinity.

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Peyton Cooke House ("Forest Home")

Off State Road 31W, Oakland vicinity. The significance of Forest Home lies in its fine state of preservation, its elaborate Federal style woodwork in the interior, in its being a particularly clear example of a Federal style I-house, and in its links with "A Kentucky Tragedy," the romantic-political affair of the 1820's known also as the Beauchamp-Sharpe Affair, most recently treated by Robert Penn Warren in World Enough and Time. Anne Cooke Beauchamp was the sister of the original owner of Forest Home, Peyton Cooke. The house was built between 1824 and 1826. (National Register)

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Curd-Moss House

Off State Road 68, Bowling Green. A log I-house (covered with a later extention), the Curd-Moss House was given a Greek Revival double portico in an effort to disguise its asymmetry. The dramatic site--the top of a bluff above Brush Creek--is indicative of attitudes toward the landscape and domestic siting in the Greek Revival period. One of the pens was probably built for J.R. Curd, who sold the property to David John Moss in 1854. (National Register)

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A. C. Davidson House ("New Hill")

 West of Leayou Road, Bowling Green. According to the 1877 Beers atlas, this site was owned by A. C. Davidson and known as New Hill. This complex of log buildings is one of the clearest illustrations in the county of the use of log construction (coveredd with a later exterior) in the accretive increase of domestic space. Several building stages produced the two-story main block in dogtrot form with a one-story, single-pen outbuilding. The significance of the group of log buildings is enhanced by the sensitive siting on a low rise above the bottom land in a bend of Drakes Creek in a manner representative of early nineteenth century attitudes of domestic siting. The house is the most distinguished of fifteen surviving log structures along Drakes Creek. (National Register)

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Willis Ennis House

 Beech Bend Road, Plum Springs vicinity. Built in the middle nineteenth century for William Ennis, this frame house is one of the few decorated cottages in the county to survive with all decorative details intact. The well-proportioned house combines stylistic references to Greek Revival, Italianate and Gothic Revival modes. The interior woodwork is in Greek style. (National Register)

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W. H. Everhardt House

1223 College Street, Bowling Green. Judge Pleasant Hines gave this land to his daughter and her husband, Captain W. H. Everhardt. Built circa 1879, this house is one of the few surviving architecturally pretentious 19th century dwellings on College Street. Despite several alterations and additions, this house is one of the most distinguished versions of the Italianate style in Warren County. (National Register)

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James F. Ewing House

Cemetery Road, Bowling Green. One of the best known houses in Warren County, this structure was transformed from a two-story, side passage plan Greek Revival house into a grandiose neoclassical I-house at the turn of the century by the addition of a two-bay block at one end for the sake of symmetry, a monumental, balustraded portico, a palladian window with balcony in the center of the upper floor, and a porte-cochere. The additions and alterations do not, however, obscure the evidence or details of the original block, but rather add to the architecutral significance of the house by presenting two contrasting visions of classical architecture. The original portion of the house was built in 1856 for James Finnis Ewing by brickmason Harrison P. Barner. (National Register)

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John Jackson Ford House

 Off State Road 31W, Smiths Grove vicinity.

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