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John Lair House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The John Lair House near Shawhan, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included three contributing buildings.”

Wikipedia article John Lair House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Harrison County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Lair, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Old Lair Rd., Shawhan, 41031
  • When was it listed? June 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Early Stone Buildings of Central Kentucky TR
  • Census division. Cynthiana
  • National Register reference number. 83002789 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of John Lair House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cynthiana QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison County

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
John Hinkson House1.1 miles1983
Smith House1.2 miles1983
John McKee House1.4 miles1983
Joseph Shawhan House2.0 miles1983
John Williams House2.9 miles1983
Monticello3.0 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83002789 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Harrison CountyAll 24 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.
  • 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.