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Jacob Hiestand House

Coordinates: 37°20′59″N 85°22′31″W / 37.3497°N 85.3753°W / 37.3497; -85.3753
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Jacob Hiestand House
Jacob Hiestand House is located in Kentucky
Jacob Hiestand House
LocationWest of Campbellsville, Kentucky off Kentucky Route 210
Coordinates37°20′59″N 85°22′31″W / 37.3497°N 85.3753°W / 37.3497; -85.3753
Arealess than one acre
Built1823-25
NRHP reference No.83002877[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 10, 1983

The Jacob Hiestand House, in Taylor County, Kentucky west of Campbellsville, Kentucky, was built from 1823 to 1825.[1] It is one of 12 German stone houses surviving in the state,[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

The house is a one-story, three-bay central hall plan house built of coursed limestone. Construction was by "the dry construction method of clay sealed with lime mortar." It is about 24 by 52 feet (7.3 m × 15.8 m) in plan, with a cellar; each of its two rooms, on either side of its hall, has an arched stone fireplace.[3]

It was home of Jacob Hiestand, who was born in York County, Pennsylvania, who moved to Kentucky around 1816 and built this house in 1823.[2] A daughter, Araminta, and her husband Joseph H. Chandler, an attorney and state senator, were living in the house when it was hit by Morgan's Raid, the rambling 1000-mile long 1863 Civil War raid of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan into Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia.[2]

The property included a separated 12 by 14 feet (3.7 m × 4.3 m) stone kitchen, a stone springhouse, a dug well, and a .25 acres (0.10 ha) cemetery. [3]

Development of a shopping plaza in the area in 1988, threatened the house; the house and its cemetery were both moved about .5 miles (0.80 km) to their present locations. The house is now a museum, the Hiestand House-Taylor County Museum.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System – (#83002877)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d "Hiestand House-Taylor County Museum". Retrieved July 21, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Joseph Y. DeSpain (November 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Jacob Hiestand House". National Park Service. Retrieved July 21, 2022. With accompanying historic photo and eight photos from 1982