December 2021 – Gardens to Gables

December 27, 2021

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

December 21, 2021

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

Tags: historic boarding house, Mineral springs, tornado

December 14, 2021

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

December 11, 2021

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)

Category: Graves County

Tags: Kentucky tornado 2021, National Register of Historic Places, natural disaster

December 1, 2021

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

December, 2021

The Addison Salyer House, Johnson County, Kentucky

The Darby House, Dawson Springs, Kentucky

Tudor Tuesday: Pensacola Park Historic District, Lexington, Kentucky

Mourning for Mayfield, Kentucky: The Morning after a Deadly December Tornado

Kentucky Places: Poole, Webster County, Kentucky

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