Joseph C. Hughes House (Union, Ky.)

Title: Joseph C. Hughes House (Union, Ky.)
Alternate name: J.C. Hughes House (Union, Ky.)
Description: Floor Plan: L-Plan; The Joseph. C. Hughes House is a large, well-kept frame L-plan house of the late 19th century, with Folk Victorian detailing. Extending across the lateral block is an intricate spindlework porch bearing a spindled frieze with semicircular adornments. The facade gables wear ornate bargeboards and are topped by lightning rods. Historic farm buildings include a transverse gable stock barn with double entry bays, a three-door corncrib, and a smokehouse.; Joseph C. Hughes, one of the major landowners of the Union-Richwood area, owned five large farms along the Louisville Turnpike (now U.S. 42). He also donated the land for the Hughes Chapel Methodist Church (now demolished) near Beaver Lick.
Has beginning: Construction Date: 1875-1899
Identifier: Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory designation: BE 269
Full address: 11279 U.S. Highway 42
Political division: Union (Ky.)
Related resource: Hughes family; Hughes, Joseph C.
Latitude: 39.05574781
Longitude: -84.81208749
Target coordinates: 689316.006 m; 4325241.120 m
Bibliographic citation: Historic Structures of Boone County, page 96
Source: Boone County GIS; Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory; Historic Structures of Boone County Kentucky

Item sets: Historic Sites--Kentucky--Boone County--Union Precinct; Historic Sites--Kentucky--Boone County--Union

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