James McKinney House
29 Maple St.
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| 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.
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| 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." |