Seth Hays House

Seth Hays House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	203 Wood St., Council Grove, Kansas
Coordinates	38°39′32″N96°29′18″W / 38.65889°N 96.48833°W / 38.65889; -96.48833 (Seth Hays House)
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1867 (1867)
NRHP reference No.	75000718 [1]
Added to NRHP	September 25, 1975

The Seth Hays House is a historic house at 203 Wood Street in Council Grove, Kansas. Seth Hays, the first white settler in Council Grove, built the house in 1867. ^[2] A Missouri native, Hays originally moved to Council Grove to start a trading post for Boone & Hamilton; he eventually owned the trading post himself, and he also started a local newspaper and the town's first bank. The house was Hays' third in Council Grove; he built a log cabin for himself in 1847, the year he settled in Council Grove, and moved to a brick dwelling in 1860. The 1867 house is a one-story vernacular brick building with an L-shaped plan. While living in Missouri, Hays enslaved a woman named Sarah Taylor, also known as Aunt Sallie. After Kansas became a state and abolished slavery in 1861, she stayed with Hays as a servant, and she lived in the house's basement. ^[3]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 1975. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. "Seth Millington Hays". Kansapedia. Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
3. Pankratz, Richard (July 22, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Seth Hays Home" (PDF). Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved February 1, 2023.