Daniel Carter Beard Boyhood Home

The Daniel Carter Beard Boyhood Home is a National Historic Landmark located in the Riverside Drive Historic District of Covington, Kentucky, overlooking the Licking River, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio. The two-story brick domicile, built in 1821 and one of the two oldest buildings in Kenton County, Kentucky, it was the boyhood home of Daniel Carter Beard, a founder of the Boy Scouts of America and their National Scout Commissioner from its 1910 founding to his death in 1941.