Pearce-Wheeler Farm

The Pearce-Wheeler Farm, near Canmer in Hart County, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The listing included four contributing buildings and a contributing site.[1]

Pearce-Wheeler Farm
Location640 Sims Cemetery Rd., near Canmer, Kentucky
Coordinates37°18′46″N 85°43′02″W
Area49.7 acres (20.1 ha)
Built1853
Architectural styleCentral Passage Single Pile
NRHP reference No.05001317[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 25, 2005

It includes a main house (c.1847), a smokehouse (c.1847), a livestock barn (c.1847), a large mule barn (c.1903), and a "small building, now in ruins, said to have once been a slave house. The former slave house originally was located just behind the main house, then moved closer to the barns and converted to use as a harness shop during the Wheeler ownership."[2]

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