Theodore Brown House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Theodore Brown House is a historic building in St. Matthews, Kentucky, a part of the Louisville metropolitan area.”
Wikipedia article Theodore Brown House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 526 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Brown, Theodore, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Browns Lane, St. Matthews, 40207
When was it listed? July 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Jefferson County MRA
Census division. Louisville East
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 83002642 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Theodore Brown House: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Louisville Crushed Stone Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Martha E. Green Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nugent Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
James Brown House	0.3 miles	1983
Winchester House	0.5 miles	1983
Dr. John Lewis House	1.2 miles	1984
Oxmoor	1.6 miles	1976
Ridgeway	1.7 miles	1973
Spring Station	1.8 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002642 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 526 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.