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044 <br /> NO PROPERTY NAME C NC TYPE LOCATION ADDRESS <br /> 05 Hughes,Annie L.House C bldg. N side SR 1004 appx.700 R W of jet w/ SR <br /> 1357 <br /> DESCRIPTION <br /> The 1-1/2-story side-gabled frame house was built in 1915 by J.Henry Lyon for Annie L.Hughes who lived there until her death ca. 1932. It <br /> features a central dormer with returned gables,paired 6/6 double-hung windows,and an interior brick chimney. A 1920s garage has a gabled <br /> roof and central dormer. In 1901,Annie L.Hughes acquired Cedar Grove Academy which was located on the site to the adjacent east of the <br /> Lyon-McDade House(10)and resided on the second floor until the county bought the Academy ca. 1914. The Annie L.Hughes House was built <br /> on the former site of the Cedar Grove Public School which was begun in the late 1900s.This school building was moved to another part of the <br /> county in 1915. Annie L.Hughes bequeathed the house to her niece Annie H.Hughes who resided there until her death in 1960 (Graybeal <br /> interview with Lois Hughes July 14, 1997). <br /> 05a Garage C bldg. <br /> DESCRIPTION <br /> 1920s frame front-gable <br /> 05b Shed C bldg. <br /> DESCRIPTION <br /> 1920s small frame <br /> 06 Hughes-Greene House C bldg. S side SR 1004 appx.600 ft W ofjet w/SR <br /> 1357 <br /> DESCRIPTION <br /> The mid-to late nineteenth-century I-story frame house is characterized by Greek Revival features including a sidelit,two-paneled entry door <br /> with a heavily molded surround,and 6/6 windows,some with original shutters. The weatherboarded house is covered by a v-crimp metal roof <br /> and rests on stone piers. Two additions including a side and rear ell adjoin the house. The western addition of the house,added ca. 1912, was <br /> originally part of the mid-nineteenth-century Thomas Cox Ellis House once located on the Dr.Claude M.Hughes House(9)site and now <br /> demolished. A building which once housed a detached frame kitchen with a large stone chimney and brick stack are also extant. The first- <br /> known occupant of the house was Thomas Harvey Hughes. Mary Hughes Greene bought the house from Hughes upon the death of her husband, <br /> Anderson Green,who was the minister of Hawfields and Crossroads Presbyterian Churches(Graybeal interview with Lois Hughes,July 16. <br /> 1997). <br /> 06a Kitchen C bldg. <br /> DESCRIPTION <br /> The late nineteenth-century detached frame kitchen building is situated to the north of the house. The I-story gabled-roof structure has 4/4 and <br /> 6/6 light-windows and a stone and brick end-chimney. <br /> 06b Wood shed C bldg. <br /> DESCRIPTION <br /> early 1900s frame shed-roofed open-sided <br />