Old Boone County Clerk's Office (1853)
Boone County, Boone County, Kentucky
Marker Inscription
Old Boone County Clerk’s Office 1853. This Greek Revival structure was built in 1853 and is Boone County's oldest surviving government building. Built at the southeast corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets, the Clerk's Building was sold to the Boone County Deposit Bank in 1889. The building was moved to the west side of Jefferson Street in 1924 where it served as Burlington's Post Office. It was moved to this site in 2001 and rehabilitated by Boone County. Marker placed 2008.
Erected by Boone County - Commonwealth of Kentucky
The Story
Built in 1853 in the Greek Revival style, this is the oldest surviving government building in Boone County, Kentucky. It began at the corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets as the county clerk's office, was sold to the Boone County Deposit Bank in 1889, and later spent decades as Burlington's post office after a 1924 move. Relocated again in 2001 and rehabilitated by the county, its several journeys mirror the changing life of a small county seat.
Why it matters
County clerks' offices were the everyday machinery of American self-government, safeguarding deeds, records, and the paper trail of ordinary lives, and a surviving antebellum example anchors a community's civic memory.
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