Richmond Kentucky

June 15, 2020

The Second Empire style, with its distinctive mansard roof, is not a common architectural style in the Bluegrass State. When I spot an example in my travels around Kentucky, I tend to remember. News of the demolition of an eye-catching Second Empire house in Richmond, Kentucky, reached me over a week ago – a house (read more)

Categories: Demolition, Madison County

Tags: demolition by neglect, Richmond Kentucky, Richmond Register, Scooby Doo House

May 7, 2016

The American Revolution was not only a political liberation, but a cultural one too – and I think the best way to visualize that cultural revolution is to look at the architecture produced in this country during the 19th century. The classical world was put on a pedestal, and one of the styles to emerge (read more)

Categories: Architecture, Bluegrass, Historic Preservation, Kentucky architecture, Kentucky history, Madison County

Tags: Clay Lancaster, Colonel William Holloway, Greek Revival architecture, Jonathan T. Estill, Richmond Kentucky, Rosehill

The Demise of the Scooby Doo House, Richmond, Kentucky

Rosehill: A Greek Revival Gem in Richmond, Kentucky

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