James McKinney House
29 Maple St.

 

Date:  The limestone house was erected when the platted lot was divided in 1835.

 

Features:  This house has a three bay façade with a centered recessed doorway.  The windows are 2/2 D.H.S. with stone lintels and wooden sills.  Cellar windows on façade.  Cellar entry is on the west side of the building from the outside.  A 36" long rectangular stone is lintel for the cellar entrance.  An interior chimney is located on the north gable end.  Both gable ends are unpierced.  There is a one story addition to the rear.  There is full length paneling on the interior (first floor of limestone dwelling) of a window and doorway.

 

Owners:  James McKinney was a tailor.  The building was subject to a sheriff's sale in 1857.  It served as the parsonage for the Centerville Methodist Church 1858-1865.  It is now the property of the Cross Point Church and has been used as a library for the Centerville Bible College.

 

Other:  A township indenture indicates that James Davidson Scott (17 years old) is "to learn the art or trade of tayloring."  McKinney was "to board and lodge him in a comfortable manner, to find good, comfortable wearing apperel such as an apprentice generally wares, to teach him the sistem of cutting that is the theory of said McKinney."