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J.M. Aylor House

historic house in Boone County, Kentucky

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ54958249 ↗
Source-derived summary

The J.M. Aylor House, at 2162 Petersburg Rd. in Hebron, Kentucky is a historic house listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The listing included two contributing buildings and a contributing structure.

The house is a double-pile central passage plan house. The property includes a hexagonal gazebo with a hipped roof, and a one-room caretaker's/servant's house with a gabled roof and bargeboard ornamentation.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “J.M. Aylor House” as historic house in Boone County, Kentucky. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1899. The account is most persuasive where Aylor, House and historic can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as historic house in Boone County, Kentucky. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q54958249. Authority coordinates are 39.067, -84.709. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “J.M. Aylor House”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow J.M. Aylor House primary sources, J.M. Aylor House archive and Aylor research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “J.M. Aylor House”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “J.M. Aylor House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.