Old Taylor Distillery

Built in 1887. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Woodford County · listed in 2017 · category: District · built in 1887.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 4445 McCracken Pike, Frankfort, 40601
When was it listed? March 2017
Category. district
Census division. Versailles
When was it built? 1887
National Register reference number. 100000747 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Old Taylor Distillery between 2010 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 July 2019	Natural	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JIM BEAM
13 November 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOVERS LEAP

Every fire recorded in Woodford County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Old Taylor Distillery: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Branch Junction Clay	Clay	Prospect
Queen City Pit No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Franklin County Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Glenns Creek	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Millville General Store	1.1 miles	2023
Labrot & Graham Distillery	2.5 miles	1995
Ayres House	3.8 miles	1994
Cyrus McCrackin House and Quarters	4.0 miles	1983
McCrackin Distillery and Mill	4.5 miles	1983
Scearce House	4.9 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000747 in Record Group 79.
Woodford County	All 80 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.