The oldest home in Covington now has new owners.
After two years of being on the market and a price reduction of nearly a million dollars, the famed Carneal House has sold.
According to the Business Courier, John and Janice Steinman are the new owners of the house that was built in 1815, the year Covington was incorporated as a city. Property records indicate that the home sold for approximately $2.1 million, less than the original asking price of more than $2.9 million when the two hundred-year old structure hit the market two years ago.
The Carneal House (via Kenton Co. Public Library)
Built by and named for Thomas D. Carneal, one of Covington’s founders, the home has stood on Second Street near the confluence of the Licking and Ohio Rivers for two centuries.
The famed home is said to have hosted Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette, of France, and was also once owned by Northern Kentucky Congressman William Wright Southgate who expanded the building in 1835.
The Carneal House is part of Covington’s Licking Riverside Historic District, which in 2013 was named among the nation’s best neighborhoods. The home is also said to be home to a ghost called the Grey Lady.
According to the Business Courier, John Steinman is president of a lumber company and serves on the board of trustees at Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati, and also serves on the board of the Kentucky Historical Society.
This video was produced when the house hit the market in 2013:
-Staff report
Top photo: The Carneal House/RCN file