{{short description|Historic house in Ohio, United States}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Use American English|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Colonel Joseph Taylor House | nrhp_type = | image = Colonel Joseph Taylor House.jpg | caption = Front of the house | location = 633 Upland Rd., Cambridge, Ohio | coordinates = {{coord|40|2|1|N|81|35|32|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Ohio#USA | built = {{Start date|1878}} | architect = Joseph Danner Hannaford | architecture = Queen Anne, Stick-Eastlake | added = August 29, 2008 | area = Less than {{convert|1|acre}} | refnum = 08000801<ref name=nris>{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}
The '''Colonel Joseph Taylor House''' is a historic house in the city of Cambridge, Ohio, United States. It was the home of one of Cambridge's leading residents in the late nineteenth century, and it has been named a historic site.
Designed by Samuel Hannaford, it was the home of Joseph Danner Taylor,<ref name=nris /> a local newspaperman and politician, U.S. Army judge soon after the Civil War, and U.S. Representative.<ref>{{CongBio|T000093}}. Accessed 2014-03-04.</ref> Possessed of a strong mind from young boyhood, Taylor was fondly remembered by his neighbors as a paragon of community virtue,<ref name=history>Sarchet, Cyrus P.B. ''History of Guernsey County, Ohio''. Vol. 2. Indianapolis: Bowen, 1911.</ref>{{rp|953}} as well as for his unwavering editorial support of the war when so many men quavered or actively sought to subvert the national struggle.<ref name=history />{{rp|955}}
Taylor's house mixes two related architectural styles, the Queen Anne and the Stick-Eastlake.<ref name=nris /> Built of wood on a stone foundation, the house is topped with a two-part roof: some is slate-covered, while the rest is protected by asphalt. The two-and-a-half-story facade is composed of three distinctive sections: the middle, comprising an elaborate porch with projecting eaves and a smaller sheltered pair of windows on the second story; a plain right side (as seen from the street) with flat walls, a third-floor gable, and a simple window in each story; and a three-story left side dominated by a large bay window on the first and second stories and a prominent overhang on the third. The entire building is covered with a multi-part gabled roof.<ref>{{OHC NRHP|08000801|Taylor, Colonel Joseph, House}}, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2014-03-04.</ref>
In 2008, the Taylor House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its architecture and because of connection to Joseph Taylor. By that time, it had been converted into a bed and breakfast, the Colonel Taylor Inn.<ref name=nris />
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==External links== {{Commons category|Colonel Joseph Taylor House}} *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20030618183746/http://www.coltaylorinnbb.com/index.html Col Taylor House B&B]}} *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwiT_thB9uU&feature=channel_page Video Tour]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Joseph, Colonel, House}} Category:Houses completed in 1878 Category:Bed and breakfasts in Ohio Category:Houses in Guernsey County, Ohio Category:National Register of Historic Places in Guernsey County, Ohio Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio Category:Queen Anne architecture in Ohio Category:Cambridge, Ohio