Buck-Mercer House
Appearance
Buck-Mercer House | |
Nearest city | Somerset, Kentucky |
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Coordinates | 37°14′02″N 84°35′04″W / 37.23389°N 84.58444°W |
Area | 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) |
Built | c.1810, 1858 |
Architectural style | Double pen dog trot |
MPS | Pulaski County MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 84001941[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 14, 1984 |
The Buck-Mercer House, on Waynesburg Road in Pulaski County, Kentucky near Somerset, was built as a single pen log house around 1810.[1]
The south pen was built with half-dovetail notching and included a limestone chimney. A second, north pen with a dog trot between was added in 1858. It is the only double pen dogtrot house surviving in the county.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ Carolyn Torma; Camille Wells (1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Pulaski County Multiple Resource Area Continuation: Buck-Mercer House". National Park Service. Retrieved April 19, 2018. With accompanying five photos from 1983-84
- ^ Carolyn Torma; Camille Wells (1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Pulaski County Multiple Resource Area". National Park Service. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
Categories:
- Log houses
- Dogtrot architecture in Kentucky
- National Register of Historic Places in Pulaski County, Kentucky
- Houses completed in 1810
- Double pen architecture in the United States
- Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky
- 1810 establishments in Kentucky
- Kentucky Registered Historic Place stubs