90 South Ohio Street. - Said to be the oldest house existing in Martinsville, this folk hall and parlor house originally consisted of two rooms with a single off-center door.  The hall generally was the larger of the two rooms where everyday family activities occurred; the parlor was the more formal and reserved for sleeping quarters or visiting with guests.  The original house, built about 1830 and moved to this location from the site of the Presbyterian church in 1880, has had several additions.  There are other hall and parlor scattered throughout Martinsville.
	No longer exists. - The Morgan County Courthouse undoubtedly influenced the architecture of Martinsville between about 1860-1880, when the Italianate house became considered high-style by the high class.  Originally built by attorney James KV. Mitchell and later the home of attorney S.C. Kivett, this showpiece was located where Doris Daily Park is now.  The bracketed overhanging eaves, arched windows.  And the boxy shape all define the house as Italianate.  Similar houses can be found all over town, especially in the area north of Morgan Street.
1090 East Harrison Street. - Job Nutter built this breathtaking Queen Anne house below Nutter Hill, now Jimmy Nash City Park, between 1895-1901.  Over the years it has retained its historic features; only the porch is noticeably absent from the house, which is still a lovely architectural masterpiece.
	No longer exist. - With its imaginative spindles and gable ornamentation, multi-patterned surface treatments, projecting bays, and oftentimes quirky from, the Queen Ann house is the beguiling "Victorian" charmer.  Immensely popular during the last decades of the nineteenth century, the Queen Anne house flaunted wealth and social prestige.  The houses shown in this 1895 advertisement for the "City of Mineral Water" all belonged to Martinsville's most important families.  Note that none of them appear to have had neighbors within shouting distance.