Built in 1797, the Mordecai Lincoln House is one of two structures in Kentucky formerly owned by members of President Lincoln's family that still stands largely intact on its original site. Mordecai Lincoln purchased 400 acres for 100 pounds from pioneer Presbyterian minister Terah Templin and built the two-story log cabin, with evidence indicating that the stairs to the second-story room were on the east wall. Further examination suggests that the federal-style frame house now on the property was added to the log house around 1815 by the wealthy owner Wilfred Hayden. Mordecai owned the house until 1802 and continued to live in the area with his wife, Mary Mudd, and six children until 1810, when the family relocated to Grayson County, Kentucky. Mordecai died in 1830 in Hancock County, Illinois. In later years the house fell into disrepair when it was used to house pigs and hay, but Kentucky later purchased it and, with the assistance of local historians, began a restoration project that resulted in its placement on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Of additional historical interest, Mary Mudd was a cousin of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was convicted for alleged involvement in President Lincoln's murder, and neither Mordecai nor his wife lived to see his nephew become President of the United States.