Fisher Homestead (Cloverport, Kentucky)
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The Fisher Homestead, located on
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in
Cloverport, Kentucky Cloverport is a home rule-class city in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, United States, on the banks of the Ohio River. The population was 1,152 at the 2010 census. History The town was once known as Joesville after its founder, Joe Huston. E ...
, was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1983. The listing included three
contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic dist ...
. The homestead house is Federal in style and was built in c.1801. It is one-and-a-half-stories tall and has a one-story brick
ell An ell (from Proto-Germanic *''alinō'', cognate with Latin ''ulna'') is a northwestern European unit of measurement, originally understood as a cubit (the combined length of the forearm and extended hand). The word literally means "arm", an ...
. The brick is laid in common bond. With .


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Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky Federal architecture in Kentucky Buildings and structures completed in 1801 National Register of Historic Places in Breckinridge County, Kentucky 1801 establishments in Kentucky {{BreckinridgeCountyKY-NRHP-stub