On your right, look for the bright, temple-like house with four tall white columns holding up a triangular front porch roof.
This is the Eloise B. Houchens Center, a Greek Revival beauty that looks like it’s waiting for a toga party to start... but it’s been busy doing real community work for over a century. It went up around 1904, built by Francis L. Kister, a local builder with serious skills and a résumé that included a stint as Bowling Green’s mayor. He even helped build St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, so the man clearly didn’t mind big projects.
The Kister family lived here for 38 years, and later it became a welcoming “home away from home” for the Girls Club for more than two decades. By 1975, a nonprofit formed to rescue and preserve it, protecting details like inlaid wood floors, carved fireplaces, and glossy woodwork that still feels proud to be original. In 1980, it earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places.
When you’re set, Hines House (Bowling Green, Kentucky) is a 2-minute walk heading northwest.
