[2] It is now owned and managed by a local nonprofit organization as a museum about Parker's life and the abolitionist movement.

The John P. Parker House is located on the Ohio River waterfront, north of the center of Ripley.

[4] The house is all that is left of a larger manufacturing complex built about 1853 for the business of John Parker, which originally included a machine shop, blacksmithy, and foundry.

He regularly crossed into Kentucky in search of escaping slaves, and brought them into the network of Underground Railroad supporters in Ripley.

[4] The property was sold by Parker's wife not long after his death, and was used in support of a coal shipping operation for many years.