Benjamin Helm House

Historic house in Kentucky, United States

United States historic place


Benjamin Helm House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The Benjamin Helm House in 2011.
37°41′38.2″N 85°51′48.6″W / 37.693944°N 85.863500°W / 37.693944; -85.863500
Built	1816
MPS	Hardin County MRA
NRHP reference No.	88001801^[1]
Added to NRHP	1988

The Benjamin Helm House is a two-story brick house in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, that was built in 1816 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is significant as the home of Benjamin Helm, an early settler of Elizabethtown. He made the first survey of the town and later became a wealthy local businessman, dying in 1858.^[2] He was the uncle of Governor John L. Helm, and great uncle of Confederate general Benjamin Hardin Helm.^[3]

The house was originally built in the Federal style. Two wings were removed and several additions added such that the house itself is no longer architecturally significant.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Historic Resources of Hardin County: Benjamin Helm House" (PDF). National Park Service. c. 1988. Retrieved February 13, 2015. Photos
^ Mrs. Wilbur Terry; Mrs. Edmund S. Richerson (c. 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Helm Place" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 13, 2015.