The Martin Himler House in

Beauty Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, o ...

Martin County, Kentucky Martin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,929. Its county seat is Inez. The county was founded in 1870 and is named for Congressman John Preston Martin. Warfield, Kentucky, ...

was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1991. It was home of Martin Himler, who founded the

Himler Coal Company The Himler Coal Company was a cooperative mining company established in 1918 by Hungarian-American immigrant Martin Himler. The company was responsible for the establishment of two company towns, Himler (now Ajax), West Virginia and Himlerville ...

. It is a two-story wood-frame and

weatherboard Clapboard (), also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of these terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping. ''Clapboard'' in modern Americ ...

ed house on a brick foundation. It sits upon a hill overlooking Beauty, which formerly was known as Himlerville. With .

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky Houses completed in 1922 National Register of Historic Places in Martin County, Kentucky Dutch Colonial Revival architecture in the United States 1922 establishments in Kentucky Unused buildings in Kentucky {{MartinCountyKY-NRHP-stub

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