It is next door to the Old Talbott Tavern.The property served as Nelson County, Kentucky's jail from 1797 to 1987.

There was living space for the man employed as jailer, and was done in the Federal architectural style.

[5] It currently serves as the Jailer's Inn Bed and Breakfast, having stopped being an active jail in 1987.

It was purchased by Paul, Challen and Fran McCoy, and in 1989 opened as a bed and breakfast.

[9] One of the purported ghosts was of a man, Martin Hill, who died painfully while waiting to be hanged for murdering his wife.