Wesley Methodist Church (Kentucky)

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Wesley Methodist Church
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Nearest city Crestwood, Kentucky
Coordinates 38°19′54″N85°32′7″W / 38.33167°N 85.53528°W / 38.33167; -85.53528
Area13 acres (5.3 ha)
Built1824
Built byBobbitt, Silas; Jean, Bruce
Architectural style Federal
MPS Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
NRHP reference No. 87000179 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 8, 1987

The Wesley Methodist Church, located on Haunz Lane in Oldham County near the Jefferson County line in Kentucky, is a historic church which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]

It was built in 1824 and, in its 1984 Kentucky historic resources site inventory, it was identified as the "only known unaltered early stone church" in Kentucky. [2]

It is a one-room dry stone front-gable church, about 32 by 44 feet (9.8 m × 13.4 m) in plan, with three windows on each side. [2]

It was built by Silas Bobbitt, age 20, and Bruce Jean, age 18. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 Carolyn M. Wooley (January 1984). "Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory: Wesley Church / Wesley Methodist Church". National Park Service . Retrieved February 19, 2018. With four photos from 1984.
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