Larue-Layman House | |
Coordinates: | 37.6953°N -85.8579°W |
Location: | 115 W. Poplar Street, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States |
Built: | 1831 |
Architecture: | Italianate |
Added: | 1988 |
Refnum: | 88001794 |
The Larue-Layman House is a two-story brick house in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The house was originally built in 1831 as a small brick home for Jacob Warren LaRue, a member of a local pioneer family and the husband of Eliza Helm, who was the sister of Governor John LaRue Helm.[1] Extensive remodeling was performed for George M. Cresap, the brick on the west and south facades and little else remain from the 1831 section.[2] The 1860s remodeling produced an asymmetrical Italianate design. A one-story porch with Doric columns replaced the original on the main (south) facade, a one-story addition was added to the north facade .
The house is notable example of the Italianate residences built in Elisabethtown in the 19th century.