Samuel and Mary Logan Briggs House

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Samuel and Mary Logan Briggs House
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Location315 W. Main St., Stanford, Kentucky
Coordinates 37°31′44″N84°39′52″W / 37.52889°N 84.66444°W / 37.52889; -84.66444 (Samuel and Mary Logan Briggs House) Coordinates: 37°31′44″N84°39′52″W / 37.52889°N 84.66444°W / 37.52889; -84.66444 (Samuel and Mary Logan Briggs House)
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Builtbefore 1790
NRHP reference No. 75000794 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 28, 1975

The Samuel and Mary Logan Briggs House, at 315 W. Main St. in Stanford, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It has also been known as the Harvey Helm Historic Library & Museum. [1]

It is a five-bay two-story weatherboarded house on the south side of what is now U.S. Route 150, but was the Old Wilderness Road from the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky and to the Falls of the Ohio. It was built before 1790. [2]

It was the first location of the Stanford Presbyterian Church. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Mrs. M. H. Dunn (May 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Samuel and Mary Logan Briggs House / Stanford Presbyterian Church / Harvey Helm Historic Library and Museum". National Park Service . Retrieved May 11, 2018. With accompanying photo from 1969