William A. Rouse House (Hebron, Ky.)

Title: William A. Rouse House (Hebron, Ky.)
Description: Historic Status: Moved 2003; Floor Plan: Double Pen, Log; William Rouse, a Virginia-born farmer of German ancestry, purchased 100 acres near Hebron from Joel Garnett in 1855; the house was likely built soon afterward. Rouse raised hay, wheat, corn, cattle and hogs on his expanding acreage.; The house is a weatherboarded log dwelling on the double-pen plan. It stands two stories high under a side-gabled roof of moderate pitch. The main facade, facing Conner Road, is four bays wide, in a window-door-door-window pattern. The bays are placed in the outer edges of the facade, leaving the center blind. At the east gable end is a brick chimney that replaced an earlier, limestone chimney in the same location. Vernacular Greek Revival woodwork graces the house's interior.
Has beginning: Construction Date: 1856
Has end: Demolition Date: 2003
Identifier: Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory designation: BE 480
Full address: 1517 Conner Road
Political division: Hebron (Ky.)
Related resource: Rouse family
Latitude: 39.10179204
Longitude: -84.75901918
Target coordinates: 693782.320 m; 4330463.466 m
Bibliographic citation: Historic Structures of Boone County, page 33
Source: Boone County GIS; Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory; Historic Structures of Boone County Kentucky

Item sets: Historic Sites--Kentucky--Boone County--Hebron; Historic Sites--Kentucky--Boone County--Bullittsville Precinct

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