Abraham Lincoln: He was a teenager living some 30 miles from this house when it was built. The oldest house in Vanderburgh County, the Kenyon House on Newburgh Road was built by Samuel Kenyon between 1827 and 1830 - on what was then called Fredonia Road. Built by mortise and tenon, hand hewn braced-framing construction, the home is a classic example of a pre-Victorian I-house. A later addition added an expanded living, dining, and eat-in kitchen area - likely in the late 1800s - which brings the architectural style closer to a classic Salt Box style. An extensive, historically sensitive renovation occurred in 1947, with significant work also being completed in the 1970s, 1990s, and today. Step inside for a warmth of period details in an open, circular floor plan that is hard to find in homes of this era. Original hand hewn beamed ceilings, wide plank floors, multiple fireplaces, built-ins, rich wood-planked walls: the home is absolutely dripping in authentic Americana. It's doused in current on-point style as well. The new, opened kitchen perfectly blends period appropriate touches with a new butcher-block breakfast bar, concrete counter tops, farm house sink, and new tile floors. The eat-in kitchen area with its rich tones opens to the finished basement and to the expansive formal dining and living area, flooded with natural light and walking out to the back covered porch. Around to the main fireplace, you'll find the main-floor master suite, complete with an original fire place, beamed ceilings, a walk-in closet addition, and full bath - recently renovated in the perfect modern farm-house style - that connects to the kitchen. Upstairs, up the newly rebuilt stairway replacing a 1970s version that more resembled a ladder than anything else, you'll find more authentic original elements including a tiny coal fireplace, and two massive bedrooms, each boasting on-suite bathrooms. Meanwhile, the back yard, with a covered porch and a massive paver patio, looks like it was taken from the pages of an outdoor living magazine. The detached garage matches the house in architectural charm, provides a shop area, and a walk-up unfinished room, waiting to be transformed. Truly a gem of significance and style, the only other thing this house is waiting on is you.
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