Dr. John Lewis House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 526 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Lewis, Dr. John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 220 Ridgeway Ave., St. Matthews, 40207
When was it listed? April 1984
Category. building
Also known as. Jefferson County MRA
Census division. Louisville East
National Register reference number. 84001564 - 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Dr. John Lewis House: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Magnesite. 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
Pilot Co. Pit	Magnesite	Past Producer
Alert Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Martha E. Green Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nugent Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utica Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utica Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Ridgeway	0.6 miles	1973
Chenoweth House	0.7 miles	1980
Winchester House	0.9 miles	1983
Masonic Widows and Orphans Home	0.9 miles	2002
Green Tree Manor Residential Historic District	1.1 miles	1991
Theodore Brown House	1.2 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001564 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.