{{Short description|House in Shelby County, Kentucky, US}} {{Distinguish|Van B. Snook House}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Snook House | nrhp_type = | image = Snook House 04 50 57 107000.jpeg | caption = House in 2022 | nearest_city= S. side of KY 12 at junction with KY 43, Shelby County, Kentucky near Mulberry, Kentucky | coordinates = {{coord|38.26528|-85.14215|source:Doncram|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Kentucky | built = c. 1895 | added = December 27, 1988 | area = {{convert|1.5|acre|ha}} | mpsub = [https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64000253.pdf Shelby County MRA] | refnum = 88002855<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a}}</ref> }} '''Snook House''' is a historic residence in Shelby County, Kentucky near Mulberry, Kentucky. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, for the architecture.<ref name="nris" /><ref name="nrhpdoc2">{{cite web |author= |date= |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Snook House |url={{NRHP url|id=88002855}} |accessdate=November 7, 2023 |publisher=National Park Service}} With {{NRHP url|id=88002855|photos=y|title=accompanying pictures}}</ref>
== History == The Snook House was deemed significant as a "well-preserved example of the late 19th century (1865–1900), 1-1/2-story frame T-plan without passage".<ref name="nrhpdoc" /> "T-plan" refers to a house that looks like the letter "T" set on its side in the architectural plans, and are a type of vernacular architecture in Kentucky. It is only one of two T-plan houses without passages identified in the county, and the only single story example.<ref name="nrhpdoc" />
The house was built around 1895, with lumber from the nearby farm of Woodlawn (known as SH-205).<ref name="nrhpdoc2" /> This listing included three contributing buildings and a contributing structure.<ref name="nris" /> "Included is a frame outbuilding and an underground cellar which contribute to the site and a non-contributing frame garage. A contributing cistern, like the outbuilding and cellar, are integral parts of the original domestic space and demonstrate the function of a rural house."<ref name="nrhpdoc">{{cite web |author=C. Worsham |date=February 1986 |title=Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory/Nomination: Snook House |url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123848586 |access-date=August 20, 2022 |publisher=NARA}} Includes seven photos.</ref>
After the house construction, it sold shortly after to Jennie and Jessie Farmer, who owned it until 1930 when it was sold to Isaac Wilborn.<ref name="nrhpdoc2" /> After Isaac Wilborn's death in 1972, his daughter Mary Jane Wilborn inherited the property.<ref name="nrhpdoc2" />
Its listing followed a 1986–1987 study of the historic resources of Shelby County.<ref name="ShelbyMPS">{{cite report|type=none|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123848573 |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Historic Resources of Shelby County outside Shelbyville |publisher=NARA |author=Gibson Worsham |author2=Charlotte Worsham |author3=Christine Amos |date=January 1987 |access-date=August 20, 2022 }} (417 pages. {{NationalArchivesNote}})</ref>
==See also== *Van B. Snook House, also NRHP-listed in Shelby County
==References== {{reflist}} {{NPS}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Snook House}}
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Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1895 Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky Category:Houses in Shelby County, Kentucky Category:National Register of Historic Places in Shelby County, Kentucky
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