Benjamin Ferguson House
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| Location | 673 High St., Charlestown, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 38°26′27″N 85°39′45″W / 38.44083°N 85.66250°WCoordinates: 38°26′27″N 85°39′45″W / 38.44083°N 85.66250°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1816 |
| Built by | Ferguson, Benjamin |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| NRHP Reference # | 83000118[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 16, 1983 |
The Benjamin Ferguson House is a historic home located in the southwest of Charlestown, Indiana. It was built by Ferguson in 1816, and is a two-story, Federal style brick dwelling with a one-story rear wing. Also on the property is a contributing shed with fruit cellar and the original well.[2]:2
Benjamin Ferguson was an attorney living in Clark County, Indiana, at the time of Indiana's statehood in 1816. In 1824 he became an associate justice of the Clark Circuit Court. He was nominated for the position of state senator in 1838 by those who did not want Clark County's county seat to be moved to Jeffersonville, Indiana, from Charlestown. Ferguson lost, but the county seat remained in Charlestown for the next 40 years, as the Indiana state legislature did not want to change it.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
References
- 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2015-08-01. Note: This includes Bonny Ellen Wise (January 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Benjamin Ferguson House" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-08-01. and Accompanying photographs.
- ↑ Baird, Lewis. Baird's History of Clark County, Indiana, (1909) pg.284, 286, 94-5
