Detail: 309 8th St Shelbyville Kentucky: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

commercial building

Location

Address:

309 8th St

City:

Shelbyville

County:

Shelby

State/Province/Region:

Kentucky

Zip/Postal Code:

40065

Country:

USA

Other Address or Location Information:

713 Washington St.

Parcel/Tax number or land unit:

S9-10-001

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Urban Institutional

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

1.07917195

Quad/Map name and date:

Shelbyville Date 1990

Township/Range/Section:

/ /

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Shelby County Public Library

Current name:

Shelby County Public Library

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1900-1909

Construction Date Certainty:

Known Construction Date:

Source for Known Construction Date:

Architect/Designer:

Developer:

Builder:

Significant Owner(s):

Historical Summary:

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

rectangular

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Greek Revival

Style, Primary:

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

masonry

Foundation:

Stone

Basement:

Building Size:

Square footage/meters:

Roof Configuration:

Flat

Roof Material

replacement rubberized/asphalt composite

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

box cornice

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

original brick

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

replacement wood

Window Panes/Lights:

6 over 6

Window Type:

double-hung sashes

Window remarks:

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Porch Height, Stories:

Porch Configuration:

Porch Type:

Porch Roof Shape:

Porch Roof Material:

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Education: Library

Present Function:

Education: Library

Function remarks:

Listed, Designated, or Protected Status

Status Code:

Listed at the national level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: No
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Designated at State/Province level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: No
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Designated Locally?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: Yes
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Shelbyville Historic District

Protected by ordinance or regulation?:

Protection status, remarks:

Exempt

Evaluation of Potential Eligibility

Potentially eligible for historic/heritage designation?

Individually eligible

Level of potential eligibility

National

Rating or Rank

Recommended as a potential landmark?

Local level landmark

Criteria:

A. Associated with historic events, activities, or patterns.
B. Associated with the lives of significant persons in the past.
C. Embodies distinctive physical characteristics of design, construction, or form.

Significance and Context

Theme(s)

Education, Architecture, Andrew Carnegie

Period of significance

1900-1910

Significance/Context Remarks

Area(s) of Significance

Architecture
Education

Ancillary Structures / Outbuildings

Number of ancillary structures / outbuildings:

Secondary structure type

Contributing to primary property?

Ancillary structures remarks or description:

Condition and Alterations

Character of modifications:

Moderate alteration

General Condition:

Excellent

Moved or Relocated?:

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Alterations?

Yes

Date of major alterations:

Nature of alterations:

A side wing was added to the library.

Additions?:

Date of major additions:

Addition Height:

Addition Placement:

Addition Type:

Nature of additions:

Endangered / Threatened

Endangered by:

Endangered/Threatened remarks:

Recommendations:

Contact:

Tourism / Featured Destination

Open to the public:

Contact information, Hours, and Amenities:

For Sale, Rent, or Lease

Property Classification:

Sale status:

Sale remarks:

Owner

Ownership type:

Public

Name of Owner:

SHELBY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

Owner Mailing Address:

SHELBYVILLE KY 40065

Legal Description of Property/Comments:

Survey and Recorder

Authorized Resource Number or ID :

SHS 554

Optional Tracking or Sequence Number:

Alternate Resource ID or Key:

Survey Date:

October 2013

Surveyed By:

CRE Planning, LLC

Report Name, or Reason for Survey:

Update Records

Level of Survey:

intensive

Sources, References, Bibliography

Previously Surveyed?

Yes

Name of Previous Survey:

Shelbyville Historic District

Additional Research Recommended?

Other Sources of Information:

General Remarks:

Andrew Carnegie personally presented a check to the Mayor of Shelbyville upon breaking ground for the library.

Custom / Extra Information

Second Story Vacancy:

Out of District:

Initiation:

CLG Grant

Sponsor:

KHC

Latitude:	38.2121706318924700
Longitude:	-85.2196708802872000
UTM:	Zone 16S 655862.6743 mE, 4230854.3886 mN
Datum	WGS84

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309 8th St Shelbyville, Kentucky USA

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