Hugh Rogan built this family home around 1800 on the Rogan farm three miles northeast of here, modeling the comfortable two-room limestone house after those in his native County Donegal, Ireland. Rogan had brought his family to Sumner County while in his early fifties, and his son Bernard, who had been an infant when Hugh first came to the New World in 1775, was then twenty-two and likely helped build it. Several generations of Rogan descendants lived on the farm, and a small Catholic settlement called Rogana grew up around it and persisted well into the twentieth century. Significant for its association with Hugh Rogan and the Catholic Church in Tennessee, and as a rare example of traditional Irish farmhouse architecture, the house was built in the Irish folk tradition with dressed limestone, a linear floor plan believed to promote long life and family harmony, doors and windows placed to ensure the safe passage of the "good people," and a central stone chimney serving a fireplace in each room. Its full-length loft and enclosed bedroom-corner stairway were non-traditional features. After the structure fell into disrepair, the Bledsoe's Lick Historical Association moved it stone by stone in 1998 to preserve it and reconstructed it at this location.