Nester House
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Nester House, July 2011
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Location | 300 Water St., Troy, Indiana |
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Coordinates | 37°59′40″N 86°48′19″W / 37.99444°N 86.80528°WCoordinates: 37°59′40″N 86°48′19″W / 37.99444°N 86.80528°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | c. 1863 |
Architect | Bengle, J.J. |
NRHP Reference # | 90001486 |
Added to NRHP | October 11, 1990 |
Nester House, also known as the Family Grocerie, Union Hotel, and Riverplace, is a historic hotel located at Troy, Perry County, Indiana. It was built about 1863, and is a 2 1/2-story, sandstone block building, with a late 1870s or mid 1880s rear addition. It features a two tiered, full facade porch. Also on the property is a contributing one story, rectangular brick building that is believed to have been a bathhouse for the hotel. The building housed a hotel that served salesmen and other river travelers of late-19th and early-20th century. It ceased to be used as a hotel in the 1930s.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.