The Fitzpatrick-Harmon House, at 102 E. Court St. in
Prestonsburg, Kentucky
Prestonsburg is a small home rule-class city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. It is in the eastern part of the state in the valley of the Big Sandy River. The population was 3,255 at the time of the 2010 censu ...
, was built in 1890. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ...
in 1989.
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It was described in 1988 as a two-story ]central passage plan
The central-passage house, also known variously as central hall plan house, center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward ...
house with a side-gabled roof. Its main section was built around 1890 and was modified in 1904. A two-story Colonial Revival
The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture.
The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...
-style portico
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many c ...
was added in the 1950s. It was stated that "Although somewhat altered, the house is clearly recognizable as a product of its time and place."[ With ]
The house no longer exists at that location.[Per Wikipedia editor who visited the site.]
References
National Register of Historic Places in Floyd County, Kentucky
Victorian architecture in Kentucky
Colonial Revival architecture in Kentucky
Houses completed in 1890
1890 establishments in Kentucky
Former buildings and structures in Kentucky
Central-passage houses
Prestonsburg, Kentucky
Houses in Floyd County, Kentucky
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