Maltby, Henry, House

Description of the property

Revival residence. Built about 1852 for Reverend Henry Maltby, this On the inside and to the left of the front door, a stairway with CONDITION cornice. FAIR UNALTERED by small plain capitals. XALTERED a curving hand rail supported by delicate balusters rises gracefully Corners of the house are trimmed with narrow end boards topped The Henry Maltby House is Oxford's finest example of Greek embellished with ornamentation derived from the Greek orders. and north walls.

roof with a wide three-part entablature that consists of a flat The first floor facade includes a trabeated doorway placed to the covering a door in the west side of the original house and a major The lower third of the first floor windows is constructed of Cornice and box gutters protect dentils at the top of a wide columns with Doric capitals in the front and two flat pilasters at the left and a window flanked by floor to ceiling shutters. is the treatment of the exterior walls in the original portion of the A notable architectural feature and one not repeated in Oxford the house have 6 over 6 double hung sashes and paired louvered shutters.

all wood house presents a two bay facade of classical proportions An almost free facade one story porch is supported by four fluted frieze with cornice horizontals, and wooden transoms. Additions include a hood supported by large decorative brackets cut to look like rusticated stone. the peak of the low hip roof indicates that possibly a belvedere once architrave, soffit frieze with small dentils and a projecting modified two story horizontal weatherboard addition with a one story enclosed CHECK ONE panelled and the surrounds are made of flat wide vertical frames, porch on the east has a gable roof with gable dormers.

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Statement of significance

ca. 1852, and the Langstroth Cottage ca. 1856. key figure in the blossoming religious, educational and cultural The Rev.Henry Maltby was born at Paris, New York, October 5, preached at Lousiville, Kentucky and Cincinnati and moved to Oxford 1400-1499 1700-1799 1600-1699 CONSERVATION COMMERCE ART POLITICS/GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT THEATER MILITARY INDUSTRY SCULPTURE SIGNIFICANCE ENGINEERING PREHISTORIC LITERATURE _ECONOMICS XARCHITECTURE XRELIGION female academies. activities of the young community.

XEDUCATION _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT The Henry Maltby House is the best example of Greek Revival architecture in Oxford and serves as an important link to the com Kentucky where he organized a boarding school at Flemingsburg.He Institute, one of Oxford's three mid-nineteenth century secondary including one state college, three secondary female academies and one recently been converted into apartments.

religious seminary were dominated by Presbyterian faculty, Presbyterian _TRANSPORTATION With five flourishing educational institutions in the 1850's, Few examples of buildings with Greek Revival design exist in MUSIC interests and divided Presbyterian doctrine, and Henry Maltby was a brick or wood.Only three buildings exemplify the Greek Revival move- 1806.He studied in Hanover College New York and later moved to A family home for most of its years, the Maltby House has -1500-1599 X1800-1899 - LAW -1900- SPECIFIC DATES circa 1852 Oxford, since the prevailing architectural style from the 1820's INVENTION COMMUNITYPLANNING ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC munity's predominately Presbyterian heritage.

Presbyterian Church until 1856.He helped to found Oxford Female Oxford became a center of advanced learning.All of these schools, ment; the Seminary Presbyterian Church 1838, the Henry Maltby House