The Seth Hays House is a historic house at 203 Wood Street in Council Grove, Kansas. Seth Hays, the first white settler in Council Grove, built the house in 1867.[2] A Missouri native, Hays originally moved to Council Grove to start a trading post for Boone & Hamilton; he eventually owned the trading post himself, and he also started a local newspaper and the town's first bank. The house was Hays' third in Council Grove; he built a log cabin for himself in 1847, the year he settled in Council Grove, and moved to a brick dwelling in 1860. The 1867 house is a one-story vernacular brick building with an L-shaped plan. While living in Missouri, Hays enslaved a woman named Sarah Taylor, also known as Aunt Sallie. After Kansas became a state and abolished slavery in 1861, she stayed with Hays as a servant, and she lived in the house's basement.[3]
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| Location | 203 Wood St., Council Grove, Kansas |
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| Coordinates | 38°39′32″N 96°29′18″W / 38.65889°N 96.48833°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1867 |
| NRHP reference No. | 75000718[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 25, 1975 |
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 1975.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "Seth Millington Hays". Kansapedia. Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
- ^ Pankratz, Richard (July 22, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Seth Hays Home" (PDF). Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved February 1, 2023.