Kiser, Walter (1902-1980) Additional drawings, Undated
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Kiser, Walter H., 1902-1980
Title: Additional drawings, undated.
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Special Collections.
Size of Collection: 102 items (1 box).
Location Number: Mss. A K61a
Scope and Content Note
Pen and ink drawings of houses in Kentucky. Drawings are arranged alphabetically by house name.
See also:
Walter H. Kiser Miscellaneous Papers (Call Number Mss. C K).
Walter H. Kiser Drawings, Undated (Call Number Mss. A K61)
Biographical Note
Kiser was an artist from New Albany, Indiana, who specialized in sketches of historic homes.
Sketch List
City | House / Building / Doorway | Notes |
Hawesville | Adams Homestead | |
Wheatley | Alexander Home | L. P. Alexander |
Millersburg | Althrop | McKee Home |
Louisville | Anderson Home | Mary Anderson, 75 E. Gray St. (now 225 E. Gray) |
Brandenburg | Atwill Homestead | Joseph Atwill |
Springfield | Bates Place | Perry R. Bates (back reads near Bedford, Original list reads Springfield.) |
Bardstown | Beall Home “Villa Lawn” | Walter Beall |
Hawesville | Beauchamp Place | Robert Beauchamp |
Bagdad | Blades Homestead | |
Smithland | Brandstetter Place | |
Louisville | Breckinridge Estate, “Kentwood” | Henry B. Breckinridge, located in St. Matthews |
Elizabethtown | Brown-Pusey Home | |
Brandenburg | Buckner Home | Col. Robert Buckner |
Smithfield | Callaway Home, “Highlands” | |
Shelbyville | Casey Home | (A. O. Stanley), Third and Washington Streets |
Chaplin | Chaplin River Covered Bridge | |
Big Spring | Clarkson Place (The Old Clarkson Place) | built 1851 |
Marion | Crittenden County Courthouse | |
Frankfort | Crittenden Home | John B. Crittenden |
Bagdad | Crockett House | |
Big Spring | Crutcher Place | |
Elizabethtown | Crutcher Homestead | “Old Crutcher Homestead” |
Carrollton | Darling Place | |
Shelbyville | Doolan Homestead | |
Bardstown | Doom Place “Culpepper” | |
Louisville | Doup-Briscoe Place | 2900 Bardstown Road |
Louisville | Duck Spring | Mr. and Mrs. Ludlow Clark |
Louisville | Duckwald House | 3801 Northwestern Parkway |
Lyndon | Duncan Home | Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Duncan |
Louisville | Durrett Homestead (“Newstead”) | Preston Street Road |
Bloomfield | Durrett Place | Southeast corner of Main and Perry Streets |
Bardstown | Edelen Home, “The Sunken Garden” | Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Edelen |
Louisville | Edison House | Lodging House of Thomas A. Edison |
Ghent | Ellis House | 2 copies (1 pencil and 1 ink) |
Carrollton | Elston Home | Bland Ballard Elston |
Elizabethtown | Eskridge House | |
Milton | Fearn Homestead | George Fearn |
Louisville | First Unitarian Church | 4th and York Streets |
Cloverport | Fisher Homestead | |
Owenton | Ford Home | Built by Frank Ford in 1870. |
Eminence | Giltner Home | R. R. Giltner |
Bloomfield | Glasscock Home, “Spring Crest” | Dr. Micajah Glasscock |
Ghent | Grass Hills | |
New Castle | Graves Home | William J. Graves |
Louisville | Grayson Homestead | 432 S. 6th Street |
Ghent | Harris Home | Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Harris |
Elizabethtown | Haycraft Inn | built by Coleman Lewis about 1814 |
Elizabethtown | Helm’s Home | Major Benjamin Helm |
Henderson | Henderson County Court House | |
Goshen | Henshaw Farm | |
Smithland | Hibbs-Presnell Place | |
Lakeland | Hite Home | Mr. Jacob Hite |
Carrollton | Hoagland House, “Walnut Grove” | Major M. T. Hoagland |
Magnolia | Holderman Homestead | Jacob Holderman |
Lexington | Hopemont, Morgan Home | |
Louisville | Huntsinger Place | 2 copies (both pencil) |
Morganfield | Huston Homestead | |
Louisville | Jefferson County Courthouse | |
Westport | Jennings Place | Thomas W. Jennings |
Louisville | Kentucky School for the Blind | Frankfort Ave. |
Eminence | Kephart Homestead | Tom Kephart |
Bardstown | Lewis Homestead | General Joseph Lewis |
Louisville | Lewis-Swindler Homestead | |
Greensburg | Lisle-Perry Place | |
Louisville | Louisville and Portland Canal | |
Louisville | Louisville Board of Education Building | 8th and Chestnut Street |
Morganfield | McCoughtry Homestead | built by William McCoughtry, ca. 1820-1829 |
Louisville | McFarland Home | 3329 Rudd Ave. |
Hardinsburg | Meador, Old, Homestead | |
Bloomfield | Minor, Old, Home | Major Spence Minor |
Greensburg | Montgomery Mill | |
Lexington | Mount Hope | Gratz Home |
Owenton | Natlee Covered Bridge | |
Owenton | Owen County Court House | |
Bedford | Peak-Mosley Homestead | |
Hawesville | Power’s Home | Col. L. S. Power |
Bedford | Preston Home, “Norfolk” | built by Mrs. Mary Howard Wickliffe Preston in 1853 |
New Castle | Pryor Homestead | |
Brandenburg | Pusey & Coleman Mill | |
Columbia | Reed House | |
Louisville | Scene on East Jefferson Street | |
Louisville | Scene on Fifth Street | Looking south from main Street. The large building in the foreground is the Kentucky Home Life Building, formerly the Inter-Southern. The Cathedral of the Assumption spire in background. |
Louisville | Scene on First Street | Houses east side of First Street, just south of Liberty. |
Morganfield | Sellers House | |
Shelbyville | Shelbyville Grade School | Washington Street |
Goshen | Snowden, Francis Homestead | later became the Green Field Country Club |
Louisville | St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church | 234 W. Market |
Louisville | St. Louis Bertrand Church | |
Owenton | Staiar Place, “Highfield” | |
Bardstown | Sweets Place, “Elmwald” | Mr. Mike Sweets |
Ghent | Tandy House | James Bledsoe Tandy |
Ballardsville | Taylor Home, “Spring Hill” | William Berry Taylor |
Columbia | Trabue Place | |
Louisville | Tucker Home, “Wild Acres” | Tucker Station Road |
Louisville | Veach Home, “Indian Hills” | Alexander Veach, 2 copies (1 pencil and 1 ink) |
Simpsonville | Walters Place | |
Bardstown | Wickland mansion | Gov. Wickliffe |
Bloomfield | Wilkinson, John Wesley Place | |
Louisville | Workhouse | Lexington Road |
Buechel | Yann, William Place | |
Simpsonville | Ye Old Stone Inn | |
Smithland | Zanone Home |