Billy Ball House

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Billy Ball House
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Photo asserted to be at site of former house
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Location209 Richmond St., Lancaster, Kentucky
Coordinates 37°37′09″N84°34′34″W / 37.61917°N 84.57611°W / 37.61917; -84.57611 (Billy Ball House)
Area0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Builtc.1835
MPS Lancaster MRA
NRHP reference No. 84001434 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 26, 1984

The Billy Ball House, located at 209 Richmond St. in Lancaster, Kentucky, was a historic house built in 1830. Also known as Edna Reynold's House, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]

It was built during the 1830s. It is or was a two-story three-bay frame building on a limestone foundation, with a 27 by 18 feet (8.2 m × 5.5 m) log structure underneath its siding. In 1983, it was one of only seven log structures surviving in Lancaster, and it was vacant. [2]

The house seems no longer to exist.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Helen Powell (1983). "Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory: Billy Ball House". National Park Service . Retrieved March 6, 2018. With photo from 1983.