Every historic building has a story to tell
Around 1880, Patrick G. Rice hired a local builder by the name of Henry Conley to build a house off of the Middle Fork of Jenny’s Creek in Johnson County, Kentucky. Rice’s new home took a form that had become popular in Kentucky prior to the Civil War – a two-story, central passage house, one (read more)
Categories: Johnson County, Kentucky architecture
Tags: #johnsoncountyky, #kentuckyarchitecture, Farmhouse, Salyer
Although my immediate surroundings gleam brightly with the red and green of the holiday season, thoughts of Christmas are interspersed with images of the devastation in Western Kentucky following the tornados of December 10 and 11, 2021. Explaining the scope of the tragedy to a five year old strains my communication skills – she especially (read more)
Category: Hopkins County
Happy #TudorTuesday! Today’s featured Tudor Revival building is this one-and-one-half story stone veneer dwelling was built between 1925 and 1930 in Lexington, Kentucky. The house rests on a stone foundation and has a sharply peaked, projecting cross gable entry vestibule with a catslide slope centered on the façade. An exterior stone chimney is located on (read more)
Categories: Fayette County, Tudor Revival
Tags: #TudorTuesday, Tudor Revival
I woke up at 12:45 am this morning – the wind chimes on our porch were clanging incessantly and a toddler may have been coughing. After checking on everyone, I turned my attention to the weather forecast. Our antenna wasn’t doing much to keep the radar in focus on the TV, so I retreated to (read more)
The town of Poole in Webster County, Kentucky, is around 16 miles south of Henderson, Kentucky, and nine miles north of the county seat of Dixon. It owes its name to John William Poole and his wife, Jane Huston, who purchased a 2,400 land grant and traveled to the area from North Carolina in 1826. The (read more)
Categories: Kentucky Places, Webster County
In today’s visual media, a photograph can be everything. In my world of historic architecture, a photograph may be all that remains of a building – the only tangible evidence left of its existence, and by extension, the lives of the people that resided within its walls. Some of the most beautiful historic photographs I (read more)
Category: Historic architecture
Tags: CWA, HABS, Historic American Buildings Survey, New Deal, WPA
The Tudor Revival style in Kentucky ranges from high-style architect-designed homes to numerous interpretations of the style as constructed by local builders and lumber companies. The Pensacola Park Historic District,* located on the south side of Lexington, Kentucky, is perhaps the best collection of popular early 20th century domestic architectural styles in Lexington. Its landscape (read more)
One of the few disadvantages of modern photography is the carelessness that accompanies its ease. Digital cameras and smartphones make it possible to capture any noteworthy moment or building anywhere at anytime! But these easy photos linger on our devices instead of finding their way into a photograph album, where names, dates, and locations could (read more)
Categories: Historic Kentucky Bridge, Whitley County
I’ve never lived in a Tudor Revival house, but the style is one that never fails (in most cases) to bring a smile to my face. This brick veneer example, with its three cross gables marching across the facade, is both new (at the time of construction, that is) and old (it calls to mind (read more)
Categories: Kenton County, Tudor Revival
Tag: #TudorTuesday
There is just something about a tower. Or even a turret. Though I remain enamored of the plain solidity of my 1901 farmhouse, with its Prairie like overtures, I am not immune to the lure of an effusive Queen Anne style house, especially one that combines a shingled turret, bay windows, a small balcony, and (read more)
Category: Woodford County
Tags: harness racing, Red Mile Racetrack, Rose Hill Historic District
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