Richland Farm (LI-813) is a Greek Revival, 10-room house constructed in 1850 in Lincoln County, Kentucky. The house exterior is composed of red brick, laid in the English Common bond style. It has a stone foundation. The house sits within a 12.5-acre property.The primary entrance to the house faces North and a secondary entrance to the West. Black Walnut, Yellow Wood, Dogwood, and Maple trees surround the immediate house. There are several different kinds of evergreens, such as Blue Spruce, and Austrian Pine. The 12.5-acre farm is surrounded by Bluegrass farmland on three sides and cornfields on the fourth side. The house was built in an ell-plan, common for the period and for convenience. The house's portico is a classical temple form, which is set over the two-story porch. The roof is a low pitch pediment with raking cornice. The house has double entry doors. The entry doors, front and side, have horizontal transoms over the doors and the front doors, first and second floors, have sidelights as well. Out in the yard from the front entrance is located a "hopping stone" for getting on horses and into carriages. The original brick walkway to the hopping stone has been located under the grass and is in the process of being uncovered. A porch on the South side of the ell wing provides entry to the first floor. All the windows and doors are trabeated. The windows are 6/6 double-hung sash windows. The windows on the East side of the house are closed in with wood shutters and are actually blind windows, also common for the period. The West side of the house has no windows and never did have them, again a common practice. The front door opens into a very wide hall with an extra wide staircase leading to the second floor landing. The floors are all tongue and groove (Historic Homes and Old Buildings of Lincoln County, Shirley Dunn. pp, 29-30). In the original house there were no bathrooms provided. The four bathrooms now present were added by Charles Stull in the 1980s. A modern kitchen was created as an entirely separate room attached to the original ell in the area that was an open porch.
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