Step back in time when you see the Hagan House. Though it has minimal architectural elements, the Federal-style residence was not attainable for many Kentuckians. Similar to other Federal residences of this period in the South, the Hagan House was built of brick construction. Though it has minimal architectural embellishments, it’s the little features at the Hagan House that stand out. Looking at the front façade, you can see the brick on the main façade is slightly more decorative than that of the secondary facades. The builder chose to employ Flemish Bond on the primary façade, a more ornamental bricklaying style that utilized alternating headers and stretchers on each brick row. The difference between the headers (short ends of the brick), placed next to the stretchers (long sides of the bricks) gave for a more expensive, but more aesthetically appealing, brick surface. Although more visually appealing, the Flemish Bond method was more luxurious, and necessitated more complicated interior wall constructions to continue to provide load bearing benefits. However, on the secondary facades, the builder employed 5/1 common bond, which consisted of five rows of stretchers below a single row of headers. This was a much more economical, and easy to construct, method of laying brick, and more complicated methods were not frequently utilized in secondary, non-public facades.