In the 1820s John Armstrong and several other early Maysville entrepreneurs financed the building of 11 connected homes, the longest rowhouse in Kentucky until 2015. Completed in 1833, a year later the local newspaper called them "the first brick-in-residence property in that section of the city, and... a marvel of enterprise and real estate pluck". Read more about this piece of Maysville and Kentucky history on Wikipedia here or read the 1984 application that put the row on the US Department of Interior's Registry of Historic places. Also, see the recreation of all eleven rowhouses on our neighborhood mural in downtown Maysville.

To help fill what we still miss so much, we rebuilt the three homes lost as a result of the 2015 as miniatures to serve as a little free library. The library is pretty popular and always open! The library and bench repurpose original building materials (joists, window trim, lathe, etc. )as well as materials from the Jimmy Pyles remodels of four rowhouses in the late 1980s and early 1990s (cabinet pulls, shelf locks, etc.) Sections include grown up fiction, grown up non-fiction and children's books. We'd love it if your brought some books from your home and if you took home some of ours.