Location Information (for the Benjamin Franklin Smyth House) Name: Benjamin Franklin Smyth House Address: 206 Smyth Road (Smith Road) City/County: Louisville vic., Winston County Architectural Information Construction Date: 1841 No. of Stories: 1 Remodeling Date: CA1859 Registration Information NR Listing Date: 25 Feb 1994 View National Register Nomination Form	Loading
Context/Comments The Benjamin Franklin Smyth house is a rare surviving vernacular farmhouse from the antebellum period in Winston County. It was listed on the National Register on 25 February 1994, with 18.75 acres of land.
Brief Description The Smyth House was built in several distinct stages. The original structure is a single-pen, seventeen-foot square, log building constructed in 1840. Circa 1845, the log house was enlarged by the addition of a frame seventeen-foot square room to the south, two shed rooms to the rear, and a front gallery. Apparently at this time the single-pen log house was encased in clapboard and the roof was raised, increasing the height of the original sleeping loft to seven-and-one-half feet. In 1879 a rear kitchen ell was added, replacing a detached log kitchen. With the addition of the ell, the roof of the shed rooms was changed to a gable roof. This configuration remained relatively unchanged until the 1970s when the following additions were made: a bedroom wing to the northeastern corner of the house, a carport to the rear, and a porch to the south elevation.