Southwest of Washington in Franklin County along Route KK are a collection of beautiful central hall houses that sit on prominent hilltops, probably built as early as the 1840s but certainly complete before the Civil War.
Certainly many of the original owners/builder of these houses were Germans brought to this country by the famous work of Gottfried Duden, who wrote a highly influential book about the Missouri River valley, inspiring mass immigration.
The simple and clean proportions are inspired by the Greek Revival, and can be two story or one story with dormers, which you can see below.
