Erasmus Riggs House Explained

Erasmus Riggs House
Coordinates:38.2653°N -84.0539°W
Map Label:Erasmus Riggs House
Built:1820
Builder:Metcalf, Thomas
Added:June 23, 1983
Area:0.4acres
Mpsub:Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
Refnum:83002839

The Erasmus Riggs House, near Carlisle, Kentucky, is a stone house built in 1820. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

It is a one-and-a-half-story dry stone hall-parlor plan house. It includes elements of Federal style, and is notable especially as a work of Thomas Metcalf (stonemason and later governor of Kentucky).[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=83002839}} Kentucky Historic Resources Inventor: Erasmus Riggs House ]. National Park Service. C.M. Wooley . 1982 . April 12, 2018. With