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John Allen House

Built in 1790 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The John Allen House, off Kentucky Route 169 in Woodford County, Kentucky near Keene, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included two contributing buildings.”

Wikipedia article John Allen House (Keene, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Woodford County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1790, Federal architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Allen, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Off KY 169, Keene, 40383
  • When was it listed? June 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
  • Census division. South Woodford
  • When was it built? 1790
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83002892 - 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Dr. William Jennings House0.4 miles1983
William Garrett House1.1 miles1983
Thomas Lyne House1.4 miles1980
Humphries Estate Quarters1.8 miles1983
Ezra Hammon House2.9 miles1983
Hogan Quarters3.7 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83002892 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Woodford CountyAll 80 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.