File:Elmwood, 4th Street, Perryville, KY - 52016323346.jpg

English: Built circa 1842, this Greek Revival-style house, known as Elmwood, was originally the residence of John Burton, a local merchant, and served as a field hospital during the Battle of Perryville in 1862. The house was later utilized as the Elmwood Academy from 1896 until 1924. The house features a red brick exterior, side gable roof on the front wing, five bays on the front facade, a central two-story portico with paired doric columns at the outside corners, brick pilasters, a front pediment, and a second-story balcony, large doorways in the central bay on the first and second floors with decorative surrounds featuring pilasters and a cornice at the first floor door, with decorative sidelights and transoms framing the doors, six-over-six double-hung windows, a two-story rear ell, a side one-story portico, and a rough-hewn stone base. The house is a contributing structure in the Perryville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The house was restored in 1973-1974 and utilized as a regional restaurant until 1989. The house was then transformed into the Elmwood Inn, a teahouse, and was designated as a Kentucky Landmark by governor Wendell Ford in the 1990s. In 2004, due to a decline in heritage tourism, the business was no longer viable, and the house was sold and converted back into a private residence. However, the tea-making business that was started to supply the Elmwood Inn when the house was open to the public is still in operation in nearby Danville, supplying tea to wholesale customers.