Every historic building has a story to tell
Last week, I shared an article on Gardens to Gables Facebook page about Parker’s Dairy Palace in New Castle, Delaware, recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The 1954 building, with its tilted ice cream cone neon sign, not only made me consider having ice cream for lunch, but piqued my curiosity about (read more)
Chances are, when you feel a little achy or sniffly, you have some remedies to which you turn. Sleep, ibuprofen, a hot toddy and a good book – or a perhaps you quaff a tall glass of water from your local mineral springs, or visit the mineral springs resort itself! Well, probably not the latter. (read more)
Ten years ago, I wrote my first National Register of Historic Places nomination. Since then, I’ve authored dozens – and to the best of my knowledge, not one of those buildings has been torn down. Until now. Last week, I heard that a small Gothic Revival house in Frankfort, Kentucky, once part of a large (read more)
Category: Franklin County
Tags: Gothic Revival, Orlando Brown, summer homes
Although houses from the Victorian period are popular with large numbers of people now, there was a time in America when styles like the Queen Anne were loathed. Noted architectural historian Clay Lancaster, with his slightly acerbic wit, noted that the architecture of the period and its “escape to exotic modes indicates unrest, and it (read more)
Category: Jefferson County
Tags: #louisvilleky, #queenannestyle, #virginiaavenue, #westviewbuildingcompany, Parkland
Chances are, last time you needed an onion or potato, or perhaps some canned green beans, you did not head outside and descend into your root cellar. Once a staple of most farms and rural properties, root cellars provided storage year-round for root crops (for both human and livestock consumption) and other fruits and vegetables. (read more)
Categories: Kentucky architecture, Outbuildings
Tags: cellar house, historic outbuildings, root cellar, warmhouse
Four years ago, a long vacant historic frame building on East Third street collapsed. I wrote about the former store/residence the day after it crashed creaking and groaning to the ground, but I had been wondering about the building for years before its demise. As is often the case, I learned more about the building (read more)
Category: Fayette County
Tags: Consolidated Drug Store, Lexington's East End, Thomas J. Danahy
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