Mathias Willis Store House
Mathias Willis Store House | |
  Location within Kentucky  Location within the United States | |
| Location | Cummins Road, near Windyville, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 37°10′44″N 86°21′34″W / 37.17889°N 86.35944°W |
| Area | 9.7 acres (3.9 ha) |
| MPS | Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 87000172[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 8, 1987 |
The Mathias Willis Store House, in Edmonson County, Kentucky near Windyville, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]
It was built by Mathias Will as a "store house," serving river travellers. It is the only dry-stone building known in Edmonson County besides consumptive huts built within Mammoth Caves.[2]
It is a single-room 30 by 60 feet (9.1 m × 18.3 m) dry-stone store building, built on a bank above the Green River, in what was in 1983 a picturesque flat meadow. It is built of quarried, shaped stone that is "fossiliferous, oolitic, bioclastic limestone: Glen Dean member of lower Mississippian series."[2]
The site was listed for its archeological information potential.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- 1 2 rarolyn Murray-Wooley (December 1983). "Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory: Mathias Willis General Store House". National Park Service. Retrieved May 5, 2018. With accompanying four photos from 1983
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