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Allen County Poor Farm

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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."
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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 km) in size.
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property in Allen County, Kentucky on the National Register of Historic Places
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It is a modest five-bay building with "a very stylized 'institutional'
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National Register of Historic Places in Allen County, Kentucky
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Scottsville, Kentucky
36°43′37″N 86°08′31″W / 36.72694°N 86.14194°W / 36.72694; -86.14194
Works Progress Administration
Colonial Revival
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Scottsville, Kentucky
Works Progress Administration
National Register of Historic Places
Colonial Revival


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


"National Register of Historic Places Registration: Allen County Poor Farm / AL-276"
National Park Service
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Architectural style categories
Contributing property
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
Keeper of the Register
National Park Service

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