Keene Springs Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Keene Springs Hotel is a rambling wood-frame, two-story Greek Revival-style building built in sections in 1841 by Mason Singleton Jr. in the hamlet of Keene, near Nicholasville, Kentucky in Jessamine County. He and his wife Nancy owned and operated the hotel and tavern as a resort destination for the white sulphur springs nearby.”
Wikipedia article Keene Springs Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Jessamine County · listed in 1984 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. KY 1267, Keene, 40356
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. building
Also known as. Jessamine County MRA
Census division. Keene
National Register reference number. 84001636 - 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Keene Springs Hotel: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Lexington Quarry Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc	Producer
	Miss Kate	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc	Plant

Every working recorded in Jessamine County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keene, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	$10,000	A fire station sustained roof damage and trees were downed.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	-	There were multiple trees down from strong winds.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	-	A Jessamine County law enforcement official reported that trees fell down as a result of severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	-	Trees reported down near Keene.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Keene	-	no account filed
May 1996	Tornado (F0)	Keene	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jessamine 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church	0.3 miles	1984
Pleasant Grove	0.8 miles	1984
George O'Neal House	1.0 miles	1985
William C. Lowry House	1.2 miles	1984
James O'Neal House	1.3 miles	1985
Woodland	1.5 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001636 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jessamine County	All 73 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.