Zachary Taylor House

Zachary Taylor House
National Register of Historic Places
National Historic Landmark
	The Zachary Taylor House (2008)
location	Louisville , Jefferson County , Kentucky
Coordinates	38 ° 16 '45 " N , 85 ° 38' 50" W Coordinates: 38 ° 16 '45 " N , 85 ° 38' 50" W.
surface	0.3 hectares
Built	from 1785
NRHP number	66000359
Data
The NRHP added	October 15, 1966
Declared as an NHL	4th July 1961

The Zachary Taylor House is a historic building in Louisville , Jefferson County , Kentucky . The future American President Zachary Taylor spent childhood and youth here. The home is a National Historic Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

history

The planter Richard Taylor migrated from eastern Virginia to Louisville with his family in 1785. Here he founded a plantation a little east of what was then the town center on 160 hectares of land that he had received for his service in the American Revolutionary War . At first the Taylors lived in a small log cabin . In the next five years a larger brick house was built , which was named Springfield . Richard Taylor, born in 1784, lived in this property until he joined the United States Army in 1808. When he was discharged from military service for some time after the British-American War , he lived in Springfield again until August 1816. Between 1810 and 1830 the house was extended to the east. Richard Taylor died in 1829 and in his will he ordered the sale of the manor house to discharge the plantation. The Zachary Taylor House went on to have different owners, while most of the original land was retained until the late 1950s when it was eventually parceled out. After his death in 1850, Zachary Taylor was buried in the family cemetery just southeast of Springfield, now a United States National Cemetery .

In the 1950s, the painted walnut wall cladding in the stairwell and dining room was restored. In July 1961 the Zachary Taylor House became a National Historic Landmark and in October 1966 it was registered in the NRHP. In April 1974 the building suffered severe water and storm damage from a tornado . Among other things, the roof and the verandas were demolished and the chimneys destroyed.

Building description

The Zachary Taylor House stands on 1 acre property in the immediate vicinity of what is now the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery . It is two and a half stories high and has an L-shaped floor plan and a gable roof . The vertical sliding windows have the shape of lattice windows and consist of 24 pieces of glass on the ground floor and 20 pieces on the first floor. On the ground floor there are two living rooms, a staircase, the dining room and the kitchen. There are four bedrooms on the floor above. The basement is formed by a central hall, which is adjoined by a room on each side. The front facade with the main entrance represents the north-western view . At the back there is a two-story veranda that can be reached via doors in the stairwell. A chimney is integrated in the house at each end of the L-shape. The Zachary Taylor House underwent only two major structural changes in its history: In the second half of the 19th century, one-story verandas in the style of Victorian architecture were added to the northwest and southwest . In the 1930s the first floor got two bathrooms.

literature

Polly Rettig: National Register of Historic Places: Registration Form; here: Zachary Taylor Home, 'Springfield'. In: National Register Information System. National Park Service December 8, 1975; Retrieved October 20, 2019 (446 KB).

Web links

Commons : Zachary Taylor House - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Zachary Taylor Home as part of the American Presidents itinerary on National Park Service website

Remarks

↑ K. Jack Bauer: Zachary Taylor: Soldier, planter, statesman of the old Southwest. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 1985, ISBN 0-8071-1237-2 , p. 2.
↑ K. Jack Bauer: Zachary Taylor: Soldier, planter, statesman of the old Southwest. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 1985, ISBN 0-8071-1237-2 , p. 30.
↑ Polly Rettig: National Register of Historic Places: Registration Form; here: Zachary Taylor Home, 'Springfield'. , Pp. 2f, 6.
^ Taylor, Zachary, House on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed October 20, 2019.
Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Kentucky. National Park Service , accessed October 20, 2019.
↑ Polly Rettig: National Register of Historic Places: Registration Form; here: Zachary Taylor Home, 'Springfield'. , P. 2.
↑ Polly Rettig: National Register of Historic Places: Registration Form; here: Zachary Taylor Home, 'Springfield'. , P. 2.

[1] K. Jack Bauer: Zachary Taylor: Soldier, planter, statesman of the old Southwest. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 1985, ISBN 0-8071-1237-2 , p. 2.

[2] K. Jack Bauer: Zachary Taylor: Soldier, planter, statesman of the old Southwest. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 1985, ISBN 0-8071-1237-2 , p. 30.

[3] Polly Rettig: National Register of Historic Places: Registration Form; here: Zachary Taylor Home, 'Springfield'. , Pp. 2f, 6.

[4] Taylor, Zachary, House on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed October 20, 2019.
Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Kentucky. National Park Service , accessed October 20, 2019.

[5] Polly Rettig: National Register of Historic Places: Registration Form; here: Zachary Taylor Home, 'Springfield'. , P. 2.

[6] Polly Rettig: National Register of Historic Places: Registration Form; here: Zachary Taylor Home, 'Springfield'. , P. 2.