Keith Cabin | |
Location | Pittman, Holmes County, Florida |
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Coordinates | 30°56′13″N85°49′26″W / 30.93694°N 85.82389°W Coordinates: 30°56′13″N85°49′26″W / 30.93694°N 85.82389°W |
Built | 1886 |
NRHP reference # | 00001281 [1] |
Added to NRHP | November 2, 2000 |
The Keith Cabin is a historic house located at 1320 CR 179, northwest of Bonifay in Holmes County, Florida. It was built in 1886. It was deemed significant "as an excellent and rare example of a 19th century log cabin built with a 'Louisiana' roof. It retains a high level of its architectural integrity, and displays excellent workmanship." [2]
Bonifay is a city in Holmes County, Florida, United States. Bonifay was given its name from a prominent family that had a brickmaking factory in Pensacola. Frank Bonifay, the man behind the town's name, bought a stake in the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, now CSX. As W. D. Chipley connected the rural Florida Panhandle, along the way he came up with names for certain communities the railroad bisected.
Holmes County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,927. Its county seat is Bonifay.
Florida is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida. Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely populated of the U.S. states. Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. The Miami metropolitan area is Florida's most populous urban area. Tallahassee is the state's capital.
It is a one-story, one-room structure upon a split log pier foundation. It has verandas around three sides. [2]
It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 2000. [1]
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