Reed-Dorsey House
National Register of Historic Places

Reed-Dorsey House

Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky
Listed
October 15, 1986
Type
Building
Ref No.
86002866

About this property

The Reed-Dossey House, in Brownsville, Kentucky, is a historic house built around 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is a balloon-frame house with a two-story T-plan, plus a one-story wing. It was deemed notable "as an unusually large and intact example of vernacular late Victorian architecture in a small town in western Kentucky" with well-preserved interior and exterior details. The house was built by/for entrepreneur J.P. Reed, who was "reputedly connected with the steamboat traffic on the Green River" and it is believed that Reed intended for the house to be a hotel or boarding house. The house was later operated by the Dossey family as a boarding house; Miss Tandie Mclntyre, a local schoolteacher was a notable boarder.

Location

Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky
37.19315, -86.26986

Categories

ARCHITECTURE
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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

Description adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Nearby Historic Sites

Good Spring Baptist Church and Cemetery
6.8 mi

Questions about this property

When was Reed-Dorsey House listed on the National Register?

Reed-Dorsey House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1986.

What type of historic resource is Reed-Dorsey House?

Reed-Dorsey House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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