Benjamin Helm House

{{short description|Historic house in Kentucky, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Benjamin Helm House

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| image = Benjamin Helm House.jpg

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| caption = The Benjamin Helm House in 2011.

| coordinates = {{coord|37|41|38.2|N|85|51|48.6|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Kentucky#USA

| location = 238 Helm Avenue, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States

| built = 1816

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| added = 1988

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000226|title=Hardin County MRA}}

| refnum = 88001801{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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The Benjamin Helm House is a two-story brick house in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, that was built in 1816 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is significant as the home of Benjamin Helm, an early settler of Elizabethtown. He made the first survey of the town and later became a wealthy local businessman, dying in 1858.{{cite web| url = {{NRHP url|id=88001801}}| title = Historic Resources of Hardin County: Benjamin Helm House| accessdate = 2015-02-13|format = PDF| publisher=National Park Service|date=c. 1988}} {{NRHP url|id=88001801|title=Photos|photos=y}} He was the uncle of Governor John L. Helm, and great uncle of Confederate general Benjamin Hardin Helm.{{cite web| url = {{NRHP url|id=76000895}}| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Helm Place| accessdate = 2015-02-13|author1= Mrs. Wilbur Terry|author2=Mrs. Edmund S. Richerson|format = PDF| publisher=National Park Service|date=c. 1976}}

The house was originally built in the Federal style. Two wings were removed and several additions added such that the house itself is no longer architecturally significant.