John Scudder Adkins, who officed out of Cincinnati, Ohio, designed in 1939 a magnificent neoclassical limestone residence in the tradition of McKim, Mead, and White, at 6801 Turtle Creek for Al and Lucy Ball Owsley.

John Scudder Adkins also built the William H. Ball house and Ball Hospital nurses residence in Muncy, Indiana, and in Cincinnati, Ohio, he designed the Grace Episcopal Church, the Second National Bank and the city athletic club. In Frankfort, Kentucky, he designed the governor's mansion.

For more information on this home, see Architecturally Significant