1500 N. Highland Ave., Owensboro, Kentucky. County/parish: Daviess.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 28, 1986. NRIS 86000663.
Part of Owensboro MRA (NRIS 64000247).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Le Vega Clements House, at 1500 N. Highland Ave. in Owensboro, Kentucky, was built in 1894. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
It is a two-story, double-pile brick house, with a projecting three-story hexagonal tower. It is Queen Anne in style.
It was deemed notable as "the finest examples of Queen Anne domestic architecture in Owensboro. The house, called Highlands by its builder, Sylvester Monarch, is appropriately named because of its commanding position on a hill overlooking the Ohio River. The house and yard cover an entire block."
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123846271