Helm Place, Historic house in Elizabethtown, United States.

Helm Place is a large brick mansion north of Elizabethtown's center with white columns and tall windows. The architecture strictly follows Greek Revival style with symmetrical shapes and classical details across its facade.

John LaRue Helm built this estate in the 1830s on the site of a former fortification. The property had previously been one of three wooden stockade forts that provided protection to the local community.

John LaRue Helm began building Helm Place in the 1830s on the site of Helm Station, a wooden stockade fort his grandfather Captain Thomas Helm had raised in the 1780s. The brick house with white columns follows Greek Revival conventions, the style Kentucky landowners of the period used for their estates.

Helm Place stands about one and a half miles north of the center of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. It is a private brick mansion on the National Register of Historic Places, listed in 1976, so visitors view the white-columned exterior from the road rather than touring the interior.

The property stands on land that was once occupied by three wooden fortifications arranged in a triangle. This strategic placement of the early forts played a key role in the eventual founding and development of Elizabethtown.