429 Daviess St., Owensboro, Kentucky. County/parish: Daviess.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 28, 1986. NRIS 86000761.
Part of Owensboro MRA (NRIS 64000247).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Temple Adath Israel (transliterated from Hebrew as "Congregation of Israel") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 429 Daviess Street, in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the United States.
The congregation was formed in 1858.
Built in 1877–78, the Moorish Revival façade of the modest building features a Gothic Revival-arched door flanked by a pair of Gothic-arched windows punctuated by four pilasters. These are surmounted with molded capitals and fanciful embellishments. Originally the whole was topped by a parapet with a row of four small onion domed turrets. In June 2015, the parapet and onion domes were removed to save the roof from water trapped under the parapet.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in March 1986. It is among the oldest synagogue buildings in the United States.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123846299