Mathias Willis Store House | |
Coordinates: | 37.1789°N -86.3594°W |
Added: | January 8, 1987 |
Area: | 9.7acres |
Mpsub: | Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR |
Refnum: | 87000172 |
The Mathias Willis Store House, in Edmonson County, Kentucky near Windyville, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
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.
It is a single-room NaNfeet 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."[1]
The site was listed for its archeological information potential.