Every historic building has a story to tell
After several years of vacancy, there might hope of rebirth for the former Epworth Methodist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. Located at the corner of North Martin Luther King Boulevard and Rand Avenue, the circa 1918 church has seen its share of different users, and a new development plan proposes to convert the church into 20 (read more)
I feel vaguely guilty for daydreaming about a historic building torn down over 40 years ago – a building I never saw – when there are so many languishing historic buildings across Kentucky that deserve attention. Yet in the course of researching something else (always the case!), I came across a photograph of this house, (read more)
Category: Fayette County
Tags: #chilesburgky, #housemoving, #lexingtonky, #richardchiles
The Leonard Cox House stands out among its 19th century neighbors in the Northside Historic District. It’s not because of the hipped red tile roof (which is awesome), but for the Arts and Crafts/Prairie style influence of the 2.5-story dwelling, so clearly “other” from the Federal, Italianate, and Richardsonian Romanesque houses within the same block. (read more)
Category: Fayette County
Tags: #historicdistrict, #kentuckyarchitecture, #leonardcox, #lexingtonky, #prairiestyle
Happy #TudorTuesday and happy second day of Preservation Month! Today’s featured Tudor Revival building is a 1.5-story brick (veneer) house that is all angles and curves. The early 20th century house is located in the Pensacola Park Historic District,* on the south side of Lexington, Kentucky. This neighborhood has perhaps the best collection of popular (read more)
Categories: Fayette County, Tudor Revival
My husband likes to regale me with stories of how he went on his first “date” at age 10 to the Kentucky Theatre. The parents conspired to make this happen and delivered the young couple to the doors of the movie house. I have no idea what the movie was, as I am usually busy (read more)
Categories: Fayette County, Theaters
Tags: #kentuckyarchitecture, #kentuckytheatre, #lexingtonky, #moviepalace, movies
Affordable housing is a pressing matter – crucial even – for most communities in this country. So it strikes me as asinine that a well-built, conveniently located 12-unit apartment building in Lexington (1320-1324 Versailles Road) is slated for demolition – for another gas station? I am not sure how the Planning Commission thinks this will (read more)
Categories: Demolition, Fayette County
Tags: #lexingtonky, #lucillecaudilllittle, #wreckingballwatch, demolition
The congregation of the Greater Liberty Baptist Church dates to around 1882, when several members of the Main Street Baptist Church, an African American church founded in 1862, left to form their own church. The new congregation built a church on Corral Street, but as the church membership swelled, the church moved again and again. (read more)
A house is much more than just shelter. Historically, homes have functioned as symbols of expression, wealth, and power – for those who could afford such brick and mortar displays – and a house on a corner lot in town commanded maximum exposure. And in the frenzy of the late-19th century, when styles and materials (read more)
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