January 2018 – Gardens to Gables

January 31, 2018

I started this blog as a way to share the amazing places and stories I’ve been lucky enough to experience – mostly across my native Kentucky, but also from other places around the world. As a professional architectural historian, most of my work – gathered over weeks of trudging through towns or across farm fields, (read more)

Category: Kentucky

January 23, 2018

Urban chicken-keeping has been a trending topic for several years now, but the hipsters tending their leghorns and Rhode Island Reds are merely part of a cycle. Chicken houses were once a ubiquitous sight not just on farmsteads, abut also in towns. If you keep your eyes peeled, you may even spot some historic (over 50 (read more)

Categories: Franklin County, Kentucky architecture, Mercer County, Outbuildings, Russell County

Tag: chicken houses

January 8, 2018

I would be hard pressed to choose my favorite architectural term – but dentil comes pretty close to the top of my list. Even if you didn’t wonder about the similarity between dentil and dental (the word is derived from the Latin “dentes,” meaning teeth), looking at a neat, orderly band of blocks ornamenting a (read more)

Category: Architecture

Tags: architectural terms, dentils

January 3, 2018

This not a post about Miley Cyrus and her 2013 hit – although there are some similarities between the breaking of a relationship and the fracturing of a neighborhood. Demolitions, neglect, absentee landlords – each element chips away at the structure and fabric of a community, and as buildings fall, a piece of that community (read more)

Categories: Demolition, Fayette County, Historic architecture, Historic Preservation

Tags: 203 East 5th Street, demolition, Lexington Kentucky demolition

January, 2018

Gardens to Gables has a New Look!

Kentucky’s Historic Outbuildings: Chickens Can Have Historic Houses Too

“D” is for Dentils: An Alphabet Soup of Architectural Terms, Part 4

Wrecking Ball Watch: 203 East Fifth Street, Lexington, Kentucky

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