{{short description|Historic building in Louisiana}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Kidd-Davis House | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | location= 609 North Vienna Street, Ruston, Louisiana | coordinates={{coord|32.53416|-92.63803|format=dms|display=inline,title,source:ProprioMeOW}} | locmapin = Louisiana#USA | built = 1886 | architect = | builder = Charles H. Harris | architecture = Colonial Revival, Italianate | added = March 29, 1984 | area = {{convert|0.5|acre|ha}} | refnum = 84001330<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a}}</ref> }} The '''Kidd-Davis House''', now hosting the '''Lincoln Parish Museum & Historical Society''', is a historic house located at 609 North Vienna Street in Ruston, Louisiana, United States.
Built in 1886 by Charles H. Harris, the structure is a {{frac|1|1|2}}-story Italianate frame house remodeled in Colonial Revival style in c.1920. The property was originally purchased by Leroy Madison Kidd in 1885 from Robert E. Russ, and then sold to Charles H. Harris in 1886. Shortly after its construction, the house was sold to Captain Milton B. Kidd. In 1921 the property was purchased by Robert Wesley Davis.<ref name=ladoc>{{cite web|url=https://www.crt.state.la.us/dataprojects/hp/nhl/attachments/Parish31/Scans/31009001.pdf|title=Kidd-Davis House|publisher=State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation |author=|date=|accessdate=July 19, 2018}} with [https://www.crt.state.la.us/dataprojects/hp/nhl/view.asp?ID=418 two photos and two maps]</ref><ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=84001330}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Form: Kidd-Davis House|publisher=National Park Service|author=National Register Staff|date=January 1984|accessdate=July 19, 2018}} With {{NRHP url|id=84001330|photos=y|title=seven photos from 1983 and 1984}}.</ref>
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 1984.<ref name=nris/>
The Kidd-Davis house is now hosting the Lincoln Parish Museum & Historical Society, which also runs the Autrey House Museum, located in another enlisted historical property.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lincolnparishmuseum.org/|title=The Lincoln Parish Museum & Historical Society}} and {{cite web|url=http://www.lincolnparishmuseum.org/autreyhouse/|title=The Lincoln Parish Museum & Historical Society - Autrey House}}</ref>
==See also== * National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana * Autrey House
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==External links== *[http://www.lincolnparishmuseum.org/ The Lincoln Parish Museum & Historical Society website]
{{National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana}} {{Portal bar|National Register of Historic Places}} {{Lincoln Parish, Louisiana}}
Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana Category:Houses completed in 1886 Category:Colonial Revival architecture in Louisiana Category:Italianate architecture in Louisiana Category:Ruston, Louisiana Category:National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana Category:1886 establishments in Louisiana Category:History museums in Louisiana Category:Houses in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana Category:Historic house museums in Louisiana
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