Stearns Golf Course

Stearns Golf Course
Location 131 Clubhouse Dr., Stearns, Kentucky
Coordinates 36°42′07″N 84°28′37″W / 36.70194°N 84.47694°W / 36.70194; -84.47694Coordinates: 36°42′07″N 84°28′37″W / 36.70194°N 84.47694°W / 36.70194; -84.47694
NRHP reference # 15000654[1]
Added to NRHP September 29, 2015

The Stearns Golf Course, at 131 Clubhouse Dr. in Stearns, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[1]

The nomination included 180 acres (73 ha) including the 49 acres (20 ha) golf course, a log clubhouse built in 1936, and a kidney-shaped in-ground pool. The clubhouse and pool were funded by the Works Progress Administration. It was located in a coal company town and the NRHP nomination described it as "'a very unusual place, as well as a significant one. It shows the lengths that some coal companies went to create a familiar experience in a very foreign place, importing a feature of urban leisure in a place of rural work.'"[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Weekly list of October 9, 2015". National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet (June 4, 2015). "Fifteen sites across Kentucky nominated for National Register of Historic Places". Kentucky Forward.
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