Erasmus Riggs House

Erasmus Riggs House
	Erasmus Riggs House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Erasmus Riggs House Location in Kentucky Erasmus Riggs House Location in United States
Location	Off Kentucky Route 13, near Carlisle, Kentucky
Coordinates	38°15′55″N 84°03′14″W / 38.26528°N 84.05389°W
Area	0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built	1820
Built by	Metcalf, Thomas
Architectural style	Federal
MPS	Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
NRHP reference No.	83002839
Added to NRHP	June 23, 1983

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.^[1]

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).^[2]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ C.M. Wooley (1982). "Kentucky Historic Resources Inventor: Erasmus Riggs House". National Park Service. Retrieved April 12, 2018. With accompanying five photos from 1973 and 1982

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.

[nrhpdoc-2] C.M. Wooley (1982). "Kentucky Historic Resources Inventor: Erasmus Riggs House". National Park Service. Retrieved April 12, 2018. With accompanying five photos from 1973 and 1982

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