Kilgore House – Retta

According to tax records, this house was built in 1907 for C.A. and Myrtle Phillips. The one-story frame house has a hipped roof and aprojecting front gable with a flanking hip-roofed porch supported by turned posts. L.M. Kilgore, a carpenter, purchased the house in 1925 and enlarged it. It remained in the Kilgore family until 1972.

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