Allen County Poor Farm

The Allen County Poor Farm in Scottsville, Kentucky was a Works Progress Administration project in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]

Allen County Poor Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	3540 Holland Rd., Scottsville, Kentucky
Coordinates	36°43′37″N 86°08′31″W
Area	6.7 acres (2.7 ha)
Built	1936
Built by	Works Progress Administration
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	91001662[1]
Added to NRHP	November 7, 1991

The poor house provided a place to live for indigent wards of the county; those able were required to work on the surrounding poor farm, which at one point was 200 acres (0.81 km²) in size.[2]

It is a modest five-bay building with "a very stylized 'institutional' Colonial Revival style. The building's style is plain and rather utilitarian but it does have some applied ornamentation. In fact it closely resembles school buildings constructed as part of public works projects during the same period and may indeed be an adaptation of an educational building floor plan."[2]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Joseph E. Brent (July 31, 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Allen County Poor Farm / AL-276". National Park Service. Retrieved April 25, 2018. With accompanying three photos