April 2021 – Gardens to Gables

April 28, 2021

On Saturday, May 8, 2021, the Waller Sharp House in Sharpsburg, Kentucky, will go on the auction block. The once-elegant 2.5 story brick house, built 1903-1905 for the Honorable Waller Sharp Sr., has suffered the indignities of neglect over the past few decades. Pigeons, water, and decay may have waged an insidious campaign against the (read more)

Categories: Bath County, Historic Houses for Sale

Tags: historic real estate. historic houses for sale, Kentucky history, save this house

April 26, 2021

Despite my rural background, I did not grow up frequenting small country stores. While I slam the brakes now to photograph any and all that I pass in Kentucky, the grocery store of my childhood was…Kroger. Once or twice, I vaguely remember accompanying my grandmother to Toy’s Grocery in downtown Mt. Sterling, but I am (read more)

Categories: Country Store, Elliott County

Tags: Country stores, Kentucky country stores

April 21, 2021

The last home designed by Lexington architect John McMurtry – a man who shaped much of the high-style architecture of 19th century Kentucky – has received its death notice. A demolition application has been filed for the Thomas B. Watkins House, located at 1008 South Broadway, at the southwest corner of S. Broadway and Virginia (read more)

Categories: Demolition, Fayette County

Tags: Clay Lancaster, demolition, John McMurtry, Lexington Kentucky demolition

April, 2021

Historic Houses for Sale: The Waller Sharp House, Sharpsburg, Bath County, Kentucky

Smith’s Grocery, Elliott County, Kentucky

Wrecking Ball Watch: The Thomas B. Watkins House, 1008 S. Broadway, Lexington, Kentucky

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