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| Location | Upper Main Cross and Jefferson Sts., Brownsville, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 37°11′34″N86°16′11″W / 37.19278°N 86.26972°W |
| Area | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) |
| Built | c.1890 |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian, Vernacular Late Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 86002866 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 16, 1986 |
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. [1]
It is a balloon-frame house with a two-story T-plan, plus a one-story wing. [2]
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. [2]
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. [2]
