Barlow House

Built in 1850 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Barlow House, on Danville Rd. in Garrard County, Kentucky, near Lancaster, is a Greek Revival-style house built c.1850. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Barlow House (Lancaster, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 67 National Register listings published here for Garrard County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1850, Greek Revival 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Danville Rd., Lancaster, 40444
When was it listed? June 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Garrard County MRA
Census division. Lancaster
When was it built? 1850
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 85001276 - 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.

Fires near this property

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Barlow House between 2003 and 2014, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	33 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WILDLIFE LN
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Garrard County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Barlow House: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	John Burdette Deposit	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Garrard County

Storms near this property

45 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lancaster, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 29 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 5 hail, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$30,000	A metal and wooden barn was destroyed along with several greenhouses. Trees and power lines were down near 1295 and Gillespie with damage to a house.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$20,000	Five hundred feet of Highway 1150 was washed away by flash flooding between mile markers 0 and 1.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$20,000	There were several houses with water in the basement. Bethel Christian Church had 6 feet of water inside.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Lancaster	$10,000	A spotter estimated from two and a half to three inches of rain over a 30 minute period. Drakes Creek Road flooded and lost blacktop in two locations. Three people were trapped in a pickup truck. A metal outbuilding was washed away.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	$2,000	A spotter reported that thunderstorm winds partially removed the roof off of a barn. Many large tree limbs were downed as well.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Trees were blown down across Sugar Creek Road near the intersection of Lexington Road.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	A tree was blown down across the 200 block of Lexington Road in Lancaster.
December 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	A tree was blown down near the intersection of Kentucky Route 52 and Boones Creek Road.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Lancaster	-	Water was over Crab Orchard Road.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Trees were reported down on Wesley Drive. The area had three rounds of storms from 1 to 7 AM. It is estimated that the last wave of storms caused this damage.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Dispatch reported trees down 2 miles north of Lancaster.
November 2019	Flash Flood	Lancaster	-	Broadcast media and county dispatch reported high water was over county roads.
June 2018	Flood	Lancaster	-	A little water was over Old Danville Road.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Trees down at Richmond Street and South Campbell Street.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	The public reported trees down at the local elementary school.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Local law enforcement reported trees down in the area.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	State officials reported trees and limbs down on power lines.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Lancaster	-	Local law enforcement reported high water over Richmond Road in Lancaster.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Local law enforcement reported a few trees down in the town of Lancaster due to severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2015	Hail	Lancaster	-	Golf ball size was reported in Lancaster by the public.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	A Garrard County law enforcement official reported that numerous trees were down across the county. There were no reports of structural damage.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	A bow echo downed multiple trees across the county, including some in Lancaster.
May 2013	Hail	Lancaster	-	Local broadcast media relayed a report of one inch hail in Lancaster.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Lancaster	-	The Lancaster Fire Dept. reported that Crab Orchard Road was briefly closed due to flash flooding. Buckeye Road was also partially impeded by high water.
August 2013	Flood	Lancaster	-	A Garrard County official reported some minor flooding issues across the county, although no roads were closed.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Law enforcement from Lancaster reported a few trees down around the town.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	A county official reported trees down near Danville Road, State Highway 52, Polly's Bend Road, and Kennedy Bridge Road.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Trees and power lines were blown down just south of Lancaster.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Trees were downed throughout the county.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Numerous trees were downed county wide.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Lancaster	-	Water covered Old Danville Road west of Lancaster in several locations.
March 2017	Hail	Lancaster	-	no account filed
January 2008	Hail	Lancaster	-	no account filed
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Lancaster	-	no account filed
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	no account filed
May 1996	Flash Flood	Lancaster	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lancaster	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garrard County

Newspapers printed here

8,656 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,292 issues, 8,656 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Central Record	18?? to Current

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
Bonta-Owsley House	0.3 miles	1985
Dunn-Watkins House	0.8 miles	1985
Parke-Moore House	1.4 miles	1985
Dr. Edwards House	1.6 miles	2008
Petrie House	1.7 miles	1984
Rankin Place	2.1 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001276 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garrard County	All 67 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.