Jessamine County, Kentucky

Founding: 1798
Parent county: Fayette

Namesake: Jessamine Creek
Seat: Nicholasville (1798–)

Land area: 172 square miles

Population (2010): 52,357

Population (historic): 5,461 (1800); 9,960 (1830); 8,638 (1870); 11,925 (1900); 12,431 (1930)

Periods of population growth: 1790–1820; 1870s; 1960–2010

Subdivisions: Two cities; one CDP

National Register listings: 73

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 872 (4.3%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 33.8%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 23.7%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,523
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,157

Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.4 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 1,534
Average farm size (1920): 57.5 acres

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Nicholasville

Namesake: George Nicholas (c. 1754–1799), Kentucky lawyer

Founding: 1798 (platting); 1806 (post office); 1837 (incorporation)

Population (2010): 28,015

Population (historic): 158 (1810); 632 (1840); 1,089 (1870); 2,393 (1900); 3,128 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1870–1880; 1890–1910; 1920s; 1950–2010
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 407 (3.4%)

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Outstanding Buildings

1. *Nab Brown Farm (1796). 3090 Ash Grove Road.
2. *Otha Robards Farm (1847). 1282 Baker Lane. Greek Revival.
3. *Manoah Singleton House (c. 1815). 438 Barbaro Lane. Federal.
4. *Woodland / John Steele House (1889). 438 Barbaro Lane. Romanesque/Italianate.
5. *Craig Ashurst Farm (1847). 2299 Brannon Road. Greek Revival.
6. *Nathaniel Dunn Log House (c. 1810). 500 Burr Oak Drive.
7. *Chaumiere des Prairies / Meade Farm (1823/1840). 1439 Catnip Hill Road. Greek Revival/Federal.
8. *John Butler House (c. 1800/1845). 122 Danville Loop. Greek Revival.
9. *Scott House (c. 1790). Danville Road, south of Bethel Road. Razed.
10. *Roberts Chapel (1845). Danville Road. Gothic Revival/Italianate.
11. *Barkley House (c. 1840). 101 Deerfield Circle. Greek Revival.
12. Sandusky House (c. 1855). 1626 Delaney Ferry Road. Greek Revival/Italianate.
13. *Ebenezer Presbyterian Church (1803). Ebenezer Church Road.
14. *George Bryan House (1838). 9236 Harrodsburg Road. Greek Revival.
15. *Isaac Barkley House (c. 1845). 1921 Keene Road. Greek Revival.
16. *Grant Knight House (c. 1855). 1929 Keene Road. Gothic Revival.
17. *George Shanklin Farm (c. 1850). Keene Road, north of Paddock Drive. Gothic Revival.
18. *Mount Pleasant Baptist Church (1877). 1108 Keene–Troy Road. Italianate/Romanesque.
19. Lowry Farm (c. 1840). 2600 Keene–Troy Road. Greek Revival.
20. *Whitfield Hayden House (1846). Keene–Troy Road, south of Cambridge Lane. Greek Revival.
21. *John Lancaster House (c. 1795). 5890 Keene–Versailles Road.
22. *Bryant House (c. 1840). 2327 Lexington Road. Greek Revival.
23. *Lewis Marshall House (1853). 3280 Lexington Road. Greek Revival.
24. *Brown Young House (c. 1855). Lexington Road, south of Harrodsburg Road. Italianate.
25. Hoover House (c. 1840). Lexington Road, north of Wilmore. Greek Revival.
26. *Everett Hoover House (c. 1920). 1201 South Main Street. Classical Revival.
27. *Providence Church (1849). 4623 Nicholasville Road. Greek Revival/Gothic Revival.
28. *Cogar House (c. 1810). Pekin Lane, north of Kentucky River. Razed.
29. *Muir Farm (c. 1800?). Old Railroad Road, southeast of Hickman Creek. Federal. Razed.
30. *George O'Neal Log House (c. 1800). 265 Parks Lane. Razed.
31. *John Scott House (c. 1840). 109 Scott's Lane. Greek Revival.
32. *Mathews Log House (c. 1810). 2377 Shun Pike. Greek Revival. Razed.
33. *Taylor Farm (c. 1810?/1870s). 1815 Taylor Ridge Road.
34. *Robert Steele Farm (1812). 1045 Troy Road. Federal.
35. *Andrew McClure House (c. 1840). 3000 Union Mill Road. Greek Revival.
36. *David Newman Farm (1818). Union Mill Road, west of Tate's Creek Road. Federal.
37. *John Hunter Farm (1792). 491 Water Works Road.

1. *Keene Springs Hotel (1843). 108 Keene–Troy Road. Keene.
2. *Edgewood / George Brown House (1853). 206 Linden Lane. Nicholasville. Gothic Revival.
3. *McConnell House (1812/1850). 303 South Main Street. Nicholasville. Greek Revival/Classical Revival.
4. *Asbury College Administration Building (1910). 1 Macklem Drive. Wilmore. Classical Revival.