Ross House (Boone County, Ky.)

Title: Ross House (Boone County, Ky.)
Description: Floor Plan: Saddlebag, Two Door; This historic home is located on Mt. Zion Rd in Union. Local tradition asserts it was built for a physician who intended to use one of the front rooms for his office. Following his bride’s sudden death, however, he sold the property.; The Ross House exemplifies the two-door saddlebag house, with trademark twin doors and center-ridge chimney. A simple Folk Victorian porch shelters the doorways. A frame cellar behind the house bears the date “1878” inscribed in plaster. Also on the property are an English barn, chicken coop and smokehouse.
Has beginning: Construction Date: 1878
Identifier: Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory designation: BE 385
Full address: 1408 Mt Zion Road
Political division: Union Precinct (Boone County, Ky.)
Latitude: 38.97194798
Longitude: -84.6512066
Target coordinates: 703478.456 m; 4316287.576 m
Bibliographic citation: Historic Structures of Boone County, page 98
Source: Boone County GIS; Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory; Historic Structures of Boone County Kentucky