John Archer House
8661 Lebanon Pike
Date: 1826
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John Archer House
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| Date: 1826
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| Features: This is a two-story
four-bay native limestone house with the door off center to the right.
A four-light transom is over the door. On the first floor, the
windows are nine-over-six. Plasterwork covers the stone on the
exterior and is scored to look like very carefully spaced stonework.
An I-house, there are two rooms down, two up with three working
fireplaces in these four front rooms. The chimneys are interior in
the gable ends, the fireplaces downstairs of stone. A brick
fireplace remains upstairs in the bedroom to the north. Early
federal mantels remain. There is a significant overhang of the
roof on the gable ends. A frame section on the northwest side may
have been part of the original house plan or an early addition.
Other two-story additions to the west were made in the 1960s including a
plant conservatory near the kitchen. The house is now covered by a
coat of plaster.
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| Owners: The deeds for this house
skip the ownership of John Archer, a native of New Jersey; only the
auditor's tax records indicate that Archer owned 100 acres beginning in
1807. The 1809 tax list gives the value of some of the houses
including the one on this property for John Archer, Sen., at $225.
That value would indicate a fairly substantial house. This
limestone house represents the earliest settlement of the community.
It continues to be a residence.
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