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From 1976-1900, the Tennessee Historical Commission sponsored surveys of historic (pre-1930) buildings across the State. In Stewart County, the work was carried out in 1981 via a grant to the Mid-Cumberland Youth Conservation Community Improvement Project. Workers traveled around the county inventorying the surviving historic man-made structures, using state-provided forms. Photographs of the structures were made where possible. The collection includes not only residences, but also out buildings, and a few historic structures that were no longer standing. The original documents and photographs produced by the project are housed at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Record Group 189 (County Architectural Surveys, 1976-1990). The Stewart County Archives has a copy of the Stewart County part of that collection, and they are useful for researching the history of historic homes in the county. A list of the 827 structures that were inventoried was also created, and each structure was assigned a number. You can view that list in this file: 
Samples of the completed survey forms are shown here. Each structure typically has 2 survey forms and 2 photographs.
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