Samuel and Elizabeth Shaw Home
Fort Thomas Sports & Lifestyle, April 1899, page 8
The Samuel Shaw House is located next to Christ Church on Audubon
Place, Ft Thomas and was built in 1859. Samuel Shaw, born in Alexandria,
Kentucky, in 1823, and was president of the German National Bank in Newport.
James Shaw, his grandfather was born in Ireland in 1754 and served in the
Revolutionary War before settling in Campbell County in 1790.
Samuel Shaw married Elizabeth Smith in 1852 and purchased 80 acres in Ft Thomas where he built the home in 1859. The barn was constructed first and then the home. Bricks for the home were made on site by slaves. It is built in a French style with lacy wrought iron balconies and entrance. There are nine rooms. The house contained two seven branched gas light fixtures said to have been removed from the Taylor Mansion near the river in Newport.
Frank and Alice Bigstaff purchased the home in 1905, sold it to Earl Hart in 1921. Kurt Iversen, a jeweler, bought the home in 1942. The home was later sold to Christ Church and used as a Sunday School annex. Today, the Shaw House is home to a law firm, a certified public accountant and a counseling and diagnostic center.