Yewell House

Owensboro, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The Yewell House at 630 Clay Street in Owensboro, Kentucky, is a two-story brick residence built in 1894 by wealthy tobacco farmer Franklin Yewell, who constructed it at age seventy. An outstanding example of Queen Anne architecture, the house features an uncommon design with front, side, and rear gables, each topped by small arched windows and outlined in decorative brick patterning. The facade employs rusticated stone effect on its front wall and porch foundation, while the projecting front gable contains a one-story bay window with rectangular panes, crowned by a bracketed cornice and original metal cresting. A matching wood porch with simple columns and spindles balances the bay and provides the main entrance, also topped with metal cresting. Brick corbelling creates distinctive double-arched windows on the second floor, and a standing seam metal roof caps the hipped roofline. The house remained in the Yewell family for seventy-two years, passing through Yewell's widow, then to his son Dr. A. S. Yewell, a prominent physician. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.