Josiah Kilgore House

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

Kilgore-Lewis House

Street Address:

N Church & Academy Sts

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Site Number:

0024

Control Number:

U/45/0024

Date Surveyed:

February 26 2003

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

circa 1838

Historic Use:

Residential/Domestic

Current Use:

Social

Historic Core Shape:

L

Number of Stories:

2

Construction Method:

frame

Exterior Walls Materials:

Weatherboard

Roof Shape:

gable, lateral

Roof Materials:

raised seam metal

Porch Width:

entrance bay only

Porch Shape:

pedimented gable

National Register Determination:

listed

Signficant Architectural Features:

2-story, frame L-plan Greek Revival house; weatherboards w/flush board sheathing under portico; side-gable roof; brick end chimneys; 2-story pedimented portico on square posts w/oculus window; boxed cornice w/modillions; single-leaf entry w/sidelights and lunette transom; central 2nd-story window w/sidelights and transom over panels; other windows in main block are 9/9 w/sidelights; 2-story rear ell w/brick end chimney and 1-story shed-roof side porches; 9/6 windows

Alterations:

Victorian interior updates (ca. 1880); moved (????)

Historical Information:

One of the earliest surviving houses in the city of Greenville, the Kilgore-Lewis House was built in the 1830s by Josiah Kilgore for his daughter, Mary, who married John W. Stokes. Their granddaughter, Lillian Gaines married R. E. Lewis and occupied the house after 1920.

Source of Historical Information:

NR nomination. Ebaugh 1970.

Quadrangle Name:

Greenville

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