Mathias Willis Store House
Mathias Willis Store House is located in Kentucky
Mathias Willis Store House
Mathias Willis Store House is located in the United States
Mathias Willis Store House
LocationCummins Road, near Windyville, Kentucky
Coordinates37°10′44″N 86°21′34″W / 37.17889°N 86.35944°W / 37.17889; -86.35944 (Willis, Mathias, Store House)
Area9.7 acres (3.9 ha)
MPSEarly Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
NRHP reference No.87000172[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 8, 1987

The Mathias Willis Store House, in Edmonson County, Kentucky near Windyville, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

It was built by Mathias Will as a "store house," serving river travellers. It is the only dry-stone building known in Edmonson County besides consumptive huts built within Mammoth Caves.[2]

It is a single-room 30 by 60 feet (9.1 m × 18.3 m) dry-stone store building, built on a bank above the Green River, in what was in 1983 a picturesque flat meadow. It is built of quarried, shaped stone that is "fossiliferous, oolitic, bioclastic limestone: Glen Dean member of lower Mississippian series."[2]

The site was listed for its archeological information potential.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 rarolyn Murray-Wooley (December 1983). "Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory: Mathias Willis General Store House". National Park Service. Retrieved May 5, 2018. With accompanying four photos from 1983


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