Fred Carr House, State Route 8, Vanceburg

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The Fred Carr House is a fine mid-nineteenth century farmhouse situated in a prominent position along the Ohio River. Its siting and architectural character establish it as one of the finest houses of its type in the immediate area. Exhibiting Greek Revival and Italianate styles in its detailing, the house follows a traditional form with a single-pile.main block with center passage and a semi-detached rear service ell. Its form is nearly identical to the neighboring Thomas J. Bruce (Hazel Cook) and John Bierly Houses (circa and The architectural details indicate an awareness of style that extends beyond the immediate vicinity to urban areas where such styles flourished in multiple variations.

Although possibly built by a prior landowner, Joseph Bobo, the house is associated primarily with Fredrick M. Carr who, with his family, owned and occupied it from the through the end of the nineteenth century. Carr, for whom Carrs Landing was named, was a prominent farmer and storekeeper with financial interests in other Kentucky towns along the Ohio River. The house reflects the importance of the Carr family in this community and the tastes and preferences of a local elite. It suggests their more cosmopolitan outlook and regional orientation toward the wider Ohio River valley. FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO. (page 2) PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical Hisirory 1.

Date of erection: circa The National Register nomination assigns, a tentative date of to the construction of this property. Interviews with Mr. Walter Dickerson, an inhabitant of this community, indicate that the house was built by a "Dutchman", i.e., a German, named Joseph Bobo or by Fred Carr. Bobo is listed in the state tax records as owning acreage along the Ohio River as early as which is consistent with information provided by the deed records. Carr does not appear in the state tax lists as. a landowner on the Ohio River until 2. Architect: Unknown. 3. Original and subsequent owners: Since information obtained through oral history interviews indicates that the house may have been built either by Joseph Bobo or Fredrick M.

Carr, the partial chain of title begins with acquisition of the property by Bobo. Deeds cited are located in the Clerks Office, Lewis County Courthouse, Vanceburg, Kentucky; complete chains of title were provided by Kentucky Power Company, Ashland, Kentucky. Deed April 10, recorded April 15, in Volume N. Page 396 John M. Stout and Achey sic] his wife To Joseph Bobo Deed June 18, recorded June 19, in Volume P. Page 208 Joseph Bobo and Julia A. Bobo his wife To Fredrick M. Carr Deed September 2, recorded September 23, in Volume 36, Page 74 W.. W. Ball, as. executor under will of Carr, deceased To Mike Hoffman Deed October 1, recorded April 29, in Volume 45, Page 36 Mike Hoffman To Lena Bierly FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO.

(page 3) Deed May 6, recorded May 6, in Volume 45, Page 107 Lena Bierly to Samuel E. Bierly Deed May 31, recorded June 13, in Volume Page 53 S. E. Bierly and Bessie L. Bierly, his wife To Helen Rose Applegate Deed August 1, recorded August 15, in Volume Page 410 Helen Rose Applegate Kimble and Garland Kimble, her husband To Franklin Real Estate Company Deed October 18, recorded October 19, in Volume Page 533 Franklin Real Estate Company To Kentucky Power Company 4. Builders, suppliers: See second paragraph of History section on p, 4, 5. Original plans and construction: No original drawings or architectural plans have been located. The two-story brick house is of single-pile depth with an L-shaped plan having a semi-detached rear service wing. 6.

Alterations and additions: Additions to the original structure are confined to the incorporation of an existing exterior porch into an interior room. Similarly, alterations have been slight and are limited to the introduction of mechanical equipment (plumbing, heating, electrical). B. Historical Context: Carrs^Landing (or Carrs) was originally known as Stouts Bottom, taking its name from the Stout family, which held patents to much, of the land in this area in the early nineteenth century. Lewis. County itself was incorporated in and named for the explorer Meriwether Lewis.

Settlers tended to come to the area via the Ohio River, and as is characteristic of frontier societies, the rate of population growth of Lewis County was extremely high in the early decades, exceeding the state statistic from through FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose KImble House) HABS NO. KY- 165 (page 4) in the decade, the county grew at a slower rate than the state as a whole, but population growth began to pick up again after Despite the upheaval associated with Civil War and Reconstruction, population growth rates in the county exceeded the state-wide growth rate in the decade, Construction of the Fred Carr and Thomas J. Bruce (Hazel Cook) Houses can be associated with this period of population growth and prosperity.

The Carr House is said to have been built either-by a "Dutchman" (i.e., German) named Joseph Bobo or by Fredrick Carr. Bobo bought the property in and -appears for the first time in the state tax lists for The entry describes him as owning 100 acres on the Ohio River, two horses and mares and two head of cattle. The description of the property corresponds to the land he bought from Stout, and therefore, he may actually have been in residence by this time. The following year, he was taxed for 100 acres on the Ohio River, four horses and mares, and six head of cattle. In he had increased his holdings to 138 acres on the Ohio River, five horses and mares, six head of cattle and three hogs.

He is enumerated in the federal census of population in sequence with other householders who are known to have lived in this area. The entry lists Joseph Bobo, aged 33, a farmer; his wife Julia, aged 27; and their three children: Francisco, age 3, Alenzo, age 2, and Ada, age 11 months. Fredrick Carr does not appear in the state tax lists owning land on the Ohio River until although he bought the property from Bobo two years earlier. In he listed property in the state tax lists consisting of 137 acres on the Ohio River, four town lots, and three slaves. Two years later, he had increased his acreage to 201 acres on the river but had reduced his holdings in town to one lot. He owned a total of four slaves and six head of cattle.

He also had a store, but it is not clear whether the store was located in town or on the river at this time, although interviews with members of the Carrs Community consistently identified a store with the Carr house. In he was taxed for 200 acres on the Ohio River, four slaves, three horses and mares, seven head of cattle, one s_tore, vtwelve tons of hay, 500 bushels of corn and 550 bushels of wheat. He appears to have been prosperous since he was also assessed on worth of clocks, watches and other similar furnishings as well as $40 in plate.* Since he does not appear to have owned any town lots in the store was apparently located at Carrs. *"Plate" is a term used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to denote gold and silver dishes, cutlery, etc.

FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO KY- 165 (page 5) The relative affluence of both Thomas Bruce (Bruce House) and Fredrick Carr (Carr House) is evident in the architectural character of their houses and in their ownership of slaves. In slaves represented a mere 2.8 percent of the county's total population in contrast to the state statistic of percent. The neighboring Dickerson House is said to have been built by slaves, and the locations of slave houses scattered among the fields are also known to residents of this community. Both the Carrs and the Bruces are believed to have sympathized with the Confederate cause, which was not uncommon in the Ohio River valley although Kentucky remained within the Union.

It is not surprising, therefore, that the church which the Bruces, Carrs and Bierlys helped to organize was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Peter Taylor Chapel, The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was created in the when the Southern congregations separated out of the national conference. Its creation signified the emergence of Southern sectionalism prior to the Civil War. In the post-war period, its continued vitality contributed to the definition of a Southern regional identity. Carr continued to work his farm and keep a store. The federal census lists his occupation as "farmer". He and his wife Ellen had five children.

Henry Jefferson, a clerk in a dry goods store, and Joshua Davis, a farm laborer, also boarded with them; presumably both of these men worked for Carr either in his store or on his farm. The tax lists for enumerate 202 acres, 6 horses and mares, 10 head of cattle, 1 store, 20 tons of hay and 130 bushels' of corn. Carr's Confederate sympathies are said to have resulted in severe fines after the war. Although his lands were not diminished, he only listed plate valued at $30 in By however, his taxable property had increased substantially. He listed 12 horses and mares, 17 head of cattle, 35 hogs, one store, worth of plate and furnishings, 10 tons of hay, 600 bushels of corn and pounds of tobacco.

Although Lewis County is considered part of eastern Kentucky, it lacks the mineral resources for which this region is generally known. * The county is hilly and historically depressed, except for the rich valleys of the Ohio River and Kinniconick and Cabin Creeks. In the its principal products were corn, wheat, rye, oats, horses, cattle and hogs. The products of both the Bruce and Carr farms in this period typify such agricultural prosperity as the county enjoyed. In the middle and late nineteenth century, cultiva- tion of tobacco began to spread from the Bluegrass to other areas of the state. The enumeration of tobacco among CarrTs taxable wealth in reflects the introduction of this crop to this area, where it rapidly assumed prominence. FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO.

(page 6) The spur to the coalescence of a community through this area resulted from the fortunate combination of arable land and good transportation. Although the Carrs landings were not a regular stop for packets on the Ohio River, residents flagged a vessel when a shipment of tobacco and/or livestock was ready to ship to Cincinnati, and the boat tied up at one of the landings located in front of the houses. Competition from the Maysville and Big Sandy Railroad in the generally stimulated the growth of towns along the Ohio River in this period.

James >Stout sold an easement to the Maysville and Big Sandy in and Carr sold a second easement to the railroad in The Chesapeake and Ohio bought out the Maysville and Big Sandy and converted it primarily to a coal/ freight line to serve the burgeoning steel industry in^eastern Ohio. In this part of Lewis County, however, access to the river and to surface routes also invited commercial development. Stout kept a store in this area in and Carr also had a store and post office in a frame building adjacent to his brick dwelling; the Bierlys later took this building down. The first depot was located behind the Carr house but was later moved further up the line to its position west and behind the John Bierly's House, when the railroad track was widened.

By Carrs Landing had its own post office as well as the Peter Taylor Chapel and the first of three school houses. Construction of the adjacent John Bierly House dates to this period. By federal census takers enumerated a separate district bound by "Stouts Land" (Carrs Lane) and the turnpike, which included the railroad depot, a general store> a lumber mill, a millinery store and school. Residents voted in a small town across the ridge on Quicks Run. Carrs appeared on a geological map of the county as a railroad station surrounded by a cluster of buildings. It also appeared on a state map as a cluster of buildings with a store, railroad depot, church, cemetery and school.

A Works Projects Administration description of the area in noted that the communities "are tiny and cluster beside the highway or along the railroad tracks". As such, Carrs can be seen to represent a typical settlement pattern for this part of the state in the early to mid- twentieth century. Carr lived on the property until early in the twentieth century. He maintained ties with Maysville, however, and both he and his wife are buried in the Maysville cemetery. After his death in March the property was turned over to his executor and eventually sold to Samuel Bierly.

Bierly and his family had been living in a smaller frame house near the river until the flood of He and his wife lived in the house until the While the Bierlys lived in the house, the yard surrounding it was said to have been fairly extensively landscaped (Interview with Ms. Kimble). Their FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO. KY- 165 (page 7) daughter Helen Rose Kpplegate Kimble inherited the property and subsequently sold it to Kentucky Power Company. C. Sources of Information: 1. Maps: Geological map of Lewis County, Kentucky. Surveyed by E. S. Perry. Kentucky Geological Survey, Frankfort, Kentucky. Scale: mile. * Traffic flow map, Lewis County, Kentucky. Prepared by the Kentucky Department of Highways in cooperation with the U.S.

Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Public Roads. Scale: 1/2 miles. 2- Unpublished and published sources: Bowman, Mary Jean and W. Warren Haynes Resources and people of east Kentucky; problems and potentials of a lagging economy. Resources for the Future by Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore. Collins, Richard and Lewis Collins History of Kentucky. 2 vols. Collins & Co., Covington, Kentucky. Eastern Kentucky. Hathaway, Beverly West Inventory of county records of Kentucky. Accelerated Indexing System Inc., Bountiful, Utah Larrance, Isaac Post office key, or Kentucky map by figures with a key to space. Isaac Larrance, Plainville, Ohio. Mead, H.E.. Kentucky and Tennessee; a complete guide to their railroad stations and their distances, connections north and south.

Their rivers, their landings and distances. H. E. Mead, Louisville, Kentucky. Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Peter Taylor Chapel Register. Manuscript in possession of Inez Barnhardt, Vanceburg, Kentucky. Sunday School Book. Manuscript in possession of Inez Barnhardt, Vanceburg, Kentucky. FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO. (page 8) National Register of Historic Places National Register o Historic Places Nomination Form: Historic Resources of Carrs River Community, Lewis County, Kentucky. Compiled by Claudia Watson, Soil Systems, Inc. On file at the National Register of Historic Places, Washington, Piatt, G. Sam Power plant will replace former way of life. Ashland Daily Independent, February 25, Copy of article supplied by Kentucky Power Company, Ashland, Kentucky.

Kentucky, State of Tax lists, Lewis County (manuscript). Microfilm of originals on file at the Lewis County Public Library, Vanceburg, Kentucky. Talley, William M. Talley's northeastern Kentucky papers. American Reference Publishers, Fort Worth, Texas. University of Kentucky, Works Projects Administration Kentucky; a guide to the bluegrass state. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. U.S., Bureau of Census Population schedules of the Eighth Census of the United States: Kentucky, Lewis County, Free Inhabitants. Microfilm of original on file at the National Archives, Washington, Population Schedules of the Eighth Census of the United States: Kentucky, Lewis County, Slave Schedules.

Microfilm of original on file at the National Archives, Washington, Population Schedules of the Ninth Census of the United States: Kentucky, Lewis County, Vol. 20, * Vanceburg Precinct. Microfilm of original on file at the National Archives, Washington, Population Schedules of the Tenth Census of the United States: Kentucky, Vol. 19, Lewis County, Vanceburg Precinct. Microfilm of original on file at the National Archives, Washington, Twelfth Census of the United States: Schedule No. 1. Population, Kentucky, Lewis County, Martins Precinct. Microfilm of original on file at the National Archives, Washington, FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO. (page 9) ; Thirteenth Census of the United States: Schedule. No. 1. Population, Kentucky, Lewis County, Magisterial District No.

2, Martins Voting District. Microfilm of original on file at the National Archives. 3. Materials provided by Kentucky Power Company, Ashland, Kentucky: Gray, Woods & Cooper Abstract of Title and Final Title Certificate, Option #3 Thomas J. Bruce House (Hazel Cook House) *- Abstract of title and Preliminary Title Certificate. Option #9 John Bierly (Maude Bierly) House Abstract of Title and Preliminary Certificate of Title, Option #10 (Fred Carr House). Continuation of Abstract of Title and Final Title Certificate, Option #6. Abstract of Title and Preliminary Title Certificate, Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 4. Oral History Interviews: Dickerson, Walter. Recollections of the Carrs Community.

Lewis County, Kentucky, Historic Documentation March 1, Interviewed by Amy Friedlander and Roger Wheeler. Tape and transcript on file at Soil Systems, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia. Bierly, Maude and Helen Kimble. Recollections of the Carrs Community. Lewis County, Kentucky, Historic Documentation March 2, Interviewed by Amy Friedlander and Roger Wheeler. Tape and transcript on file at Soil Systems, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia. Ba.rnhardt, Inez. Recollections of the Peter Taylor Chapel and the Carrs Community. Lewis County, Kentucky, Historic Documentation March 2, Interviewed by Amy Friedlander and Roger Wheeler. Notes on file at Soil Systems, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia. McCann, Peggy. Recollections of Peter Taylor Chapel and the Carrs Community.

Lewis County, Kentucky, Historic Documentation March. 2, Interviewed by Amy Friedlander and Roger Wheeler. Tape and transcript on file at Soil Systems, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia. FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO. (page 10)

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ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION A. General Statement 1- Architectural character: The Fred Carr House is an example of a local variation of the Greek Revival style. Its construction date is somewhat late, on a national level, for that style and Victorian decorative elements serve as a concession to the concurrent Romantic Revival. Its center passage, single-pile plan with rear dining room and service ell is typical of mid-nineteenth century houses of similar size and represents a break with earlier, Georgian-based plans. The bracketed cornice and sawn porch elements of the facade are suggestive of the Italianate mode and are style-conscious elements interesting in comparison to the more conservative parallel elements at the rear of the house. 2.

Condition of fabric: The house appears to be structurally sound although considerable damage has occured as a result of its vacancy. Water damage at the center of the facade wall has penetrated the interior and is evident in the deteriorated plaster finished walls and the stained exterior brick. . The cornice and wood porch elements are in poor condition; any preservation attempt would require a combination of stabilization and reproduction. In all cases, enough of the original fabric remains in good condition to provide a basis for reproduction of lost or badly damaged elements. B. Description of Exterior: 1. Over-all dimensions: The L-shaped house has a 44' facade (north elevation) with a 20' east elevation and an 80' west elevation. The rear ell is 17' wide and 60' deep. 2.

Foundations: The house has a cut-stone foundation with a stone watertable. 3. Walls: The exterior walls are of red brick laid in eight-course common bond. A storage room at the rear ell is part of the original design and is of frame construction clad with weatherboards. The rear enclosed porch (originally open) is also of frame. 4. Porches: Facade: The facade porch is one-story in height and extends across the three central bays of the north elevation. The facade porch, constructed of wood, has a flat roof with box cornice. The wood floor is raised about eighteen inches above FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO. (page 11) the ground on brick piers. Two replacement steps of poured concrete rise to the center front of the porch, aligned with the central door.

Eight square poats with chamfered edges extend along the front. Posxs at the extreme ends of the front are paired. Simple sawn brackets form a tripartite arch between each pair of columns. An entablature below the box cornice has a single pendant bisecting each arched bracket. Four engaged pilasters frame the three bays of the facade. b. Rear Ell, One-Story Section: A small open porch connects the frame storage room with the two-story porch at the junction of the rear ell and main block of the house. The service porch is actually an L-shaped semi-exterior room. The rear ell is in two sections the one-story rear service wing and the two-story dining room and bedroom extension of the main block. At the junction of the two sections of the ell is the open porch.

This arrangement effectively isolated the kitchen and storage areas from the formal rooms of the house. This symbolic distinction between service and formal or servants and family section of the house is frequently expressed in a variety of ways during this period. A physical advantage for such an arrangement may have been isolating the fire hazard inherent in a kitchen. The porch has simple square posts of wood and a raised wood floor. The roof is a continuation of the gable roof of the kitchen. c. Rear Ell, Two-Story Section; A two-story porch was originally designed at the junction of the rear ell and the main block. The rear ell at this point is two- stories in height. The first floor of this porch was originally open, supported by square posts.

It has subsequently been adapted as an enclosed room. The second floor section of the porch, however, remains intact. It features square posts with a balustrade having sawn vasiform balusters. A door at the second floor atair landing opens onto the porch. A second v door opens into the rear room on the second floor wing; access to this room is only through the open porch. The porch_ roof is. an extension of the uneven gable roof of the ell. The upper section of the porch has been infilled between the posts to provide protection from the weather. The porch probably served as a semi-exterior sleeping area. 5. Chimneys: The main block of the house has two interior end chimneys located in the center of the gable ends.

Two additional chimneys are located in the rear ell: one in FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO. (page 12) dining room, the second in the rearmost room or kitchen. The chimneya are simply treated with the top course of bricks, raised slightly. 6. Openings: a. Doorways and doors: The central first floor bay on the facade is the principal entrance. The doorway is treated in a manner almost identical to that on the Thomas J. Bruce (Hazel Cook) House. It features a wood door with four rectangular panels having cyma molded, raised fields. The door has a tripartite transom with the largest light extending the width of the door. Sidelights have three panes and one wood panel each surround the door.

The small lights on the transom are located above the sidelights and are set apart by a sill and by brackets with stylized acanthus leaf motifs. At the rear of the center passage,' a paneled door is set slightly off center from the front door of the same design. This rear door has a simple one light transom and should be considered an interior door with the enclosure of the open porch onto which it originally opened. Four panel wood doors are found opening from the dining room and kitchen wings onto the semi-exterior porch that divides the one- and two-story sections of the rear ell. They are set slightly off-center from each other. A small, four panel wood door of simpler design provides access to the original frame storage room built to the east side of the kitchen wing.

There is one door on the west elevation that provides access to the small room of the kitchen wing. The door has been altered from its original four panel design to accommodate four glass panes in the upper section. b. Windows and shutters: Windows throughout the house are entirely of the six-over-six pane variety. They feature delicate muntins. Finely finished stone is used in the simple, bold lintels and in the smaller, slightly raised sills. The east gable end of the main * block of the house is without fenestration. Louvered shutters are of wood and are original features. With the exception of the one-story kitchen wing, they are found on windows throughout the house. They are painted medium-dark green. FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO. (page 13) 7. Roof: a.

Shape, covering: The house has a gable roof with two slopes, of gentle pitch. Standing-seam metal roofing is. used throughout the house and the porches. h. Cornice, eaves: The house has slightly projecting eaves with an architrave cornice with frieze and Italianate style sawn brackets. Gable ends feature partial returns. The extreme rear section of the house features an interesting Classical cornice of S- and C-scrolls in a running wave motif. The design is on a thin board that extends just below the eave, projecting several inches in front of the simple frieze; this arrangment is effective in allowing for the interplay of light and shade, dramatically highlighting a simple detail. C. Description of Interior: 1. Floor plans: (Refer to sketch plans). a.

First floor: The L-shaped house has a main block which includes the north elevation or facade. The main block has a center passage and two, flaking rooms. A rear ell, sixty feet in length, extends back from the west parlor. This ell includes a one- and a two-story section divided by a semi-exterior porch. The two-story section contains a dining room on the first floor; the one-story section contains a kitchen and related service room. The rear door of the center passage originally opened onto an open porch. The porch was enclosed in the twentieth century to form a small glazed room and bathroom. This room appears to have been used as the kitchen, replacing the function of the room at the extreme rear of the house, originally designed for that purpose.

A small storage room, originally unattached to the house, is located at the east side of the kitchen, off the open porch. It is of frame construction. b. Second Floor: The plan of the second floor is like that of the first with the exception that, above the first floor dining room, are two small rooms. There are two large rooms to either side of the center passage served by doors in the same position as those on the first floor plan. One of the small rooms in the ell is. served by a door in the west front room. The extreme rear room has only one door which opens to the exterior porch. Access to this porch from the main block of the house is through a door at the stair landing. FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO.

(page 14) The size of the porch indicates that it may have been used as a sleeping porch, as does the fact that it is partially enclosed and protected. The function of the small isolated room at the rear of the house is not known. It may have served as servants quarters or as an office or school room. Its special function is indicated by the fact that it is accessible only by first going outdoors onto the open porch. 2. Stairways: The house has only one stairway located in the center passage. Thirteen steps rise to the second floor landing passage. The open string stair has two turned balusters to a riser. The vasiform turnings are of Classical inspiration. The newel post is simply turned and of walnut. The banister is also of walnut.

Spandrels are composed of simple S- and C-scrolls in stylized combination. 3. Flooring: Floors are of uniform width pine boards. They have been painted in most cases. 4. Walls and ceiling finish: The walls on the first floor rise eleven feet to the ceilings. Ceiling height is slightly lower on the second floor. Walls and ceilings are finished in plaster (reinforced with animal hair) on wood lath. The baseboard is composed of a single board with quarterround molding at the base. The moldings on the baseboard are in the Greek Revival style with attenuated cyma curves. In the center passage (first and second floors), the west front room, dining room, and the small room on the second floor adjacent to the west front room, the plaster was originally painted.

In all but the smallest room, the decoration consisted of rectangular fields of blue defined by thin rectangular bands of red and yellow. The effect is of paneled or framed fields of blue. This painted treatment was entirely concealed by a later series of wallpaper and paint. The small, rear room is painted a single color about 4/5 the height of the walls, it is then painted a second color and the division marked by a stencilled floral pattern. The floral stencilling is a stylized rose motif with red and green. It appears to date to the end of the nineteenth or early years of the twentieth century, and is not of the same period as the other, simpler designs. FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO. (page 15) 5.. Openings: a.

Doorways and doors: Interior doors are of wood with four raised panels each. The rectangular panels, have cyma moldings. Doors are set within vigorously molded surrounds with compound S- and S- scrolls.. h. Windows: Windows are set within surrounds identical to those of the doors. 6. Decorative features and trim: a. Chimneypieces: Chironeypieces in the Greek Revival style are composed of simple boards built up from the chimney breast. Pilasters with cyma molded capitals support plain mantle shelves. The chimney- pieces are found in all of the principal rooms without variation. In some rooms, they are found in combination with chimney breast closets. These closets have four doors with an upper and a lower section. The doors have raised panels with cyma holdings. 7.

Hardware: Doors are hung on butt hinges of cast iron. Door knobs are of white porcelain and "agate" porcelain. Simple box locks of cast iron are found on all doors. 8. Mechanical Equipment: a. Heating: Hot air registers are found in all of the rooms with the furnace located in the basement. b. Lighting: Some rooms have ceiling inprinted light fixtures, which would have held bare light bulbs. c. Plumbing: Plumbing was added to the enclosed section of the porch at the junction of the rear ell and main block. This area contained the second kitchen (replacing the rear ell kitchen). A small bathroom was added under the stairs on the first floor. D.

Site: General setting and orientation: The house and associated farm are situated in a valley formed by a range of hills to the south and the Ohio River to the north. The house faces north to the river and is situated about one- tenth of one mile back from Kentucky State Rte. 8. FRED CARR HOUSE (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS NO. KY- 165 (page 16) 2. Historic Landscape Design: The landscape design seen on the property today dates, to the early twentieth century, with, large shade trees and ornamental shrubs. Few. of the original outbuildings remain. The size of the yard has probably been diminished by the encroachment of cultivated land concurrent with the abandonment of the house. 3.

Outbuildings: There is a large frame barn currently used for cattle and horses situated very close to Kentucky State Rte. 8. It is situated at the start of the dirt lane that leads to a park or circular termination at the house. The barn is enclosed within a fenced yard. There is a small smokehouse about thirty yards behind the main house; it is of frame construction and has been covered with brick facing in this century. The smoke- house has one door on the north gable end, which has a projecting roof, possibly to keep wood stored against the building A dirt land extends behind the main house to a small tenant house of frame construction. It is two stories in height with two rooms to a floor and a gable roof.

It is clad in rusticated molded sheet metal, which appears to be the original means of covering dating to The yard is fenced with board and wire fencing and is planted with grass. The surrounding fields were planted in corn at the time of the survey.

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PROJECT INFORMATION Federal Agency Involved: Environmental Protection Agency The American Electric Power Service Corporation (Canton, Ohio), through the Kentucky Power Company (Ashland, Kentucky) requested this documentation. They have proposed a power plant to be constructed on the site, which would impact the Thomas J. Bruce (Hazel Cook) House, the John Bierly (Maude Bierly) House, the Fred Carr House, and the Peter Taylor Chapel. The architectural and photographic components of this project were conducted in May with Elizabeth W. Anderson as Project Manager and Robert A. Warnock as Architectural Historian. Historical documentation, including oral history interviews and archival research, and preparation of the final document were completed during March with Charles. H.

LeeDecker as Project Manager and Amy Friedlander as Historian. Messrs. Russ Coburn and Roger Wheeler of Kentucky Power Company and Messrs. Frank Ferraro and Thomas Webb of American Electric Power Service Corporation were liasons for this project. ^ Fred Carr House (Helen Rose Kimble House) HABS No. Sketch Plan- First Floor (page 17)