Every historic building has a story to tell
The railroad town of Midway, Kentucky, is not only endearing, pretty, and charming, but it possesses a depth of interesting historic architecture. Over the years, I’ve enjoyed strolling the quiet streets and taking in a range of architectural styles and types. One curious house that has long intrigued me has now gone on the market, (read more)
Category: Woodford County
Tags: #historicarchitecture, #midwayky, #nationalregisterofhistoricplaces
Once upon a time, my grandmother kept a wooden bookshelf in her basement upon which she stored jars of jellies and preserves. Prior to taking up residence in her basement, the bookshelf lived on the porch of her childhood home. I discovered it in the storage unit my family kept following my grandmother’s death and (read more)
Category: Material Culture
Tags: #bookshelf, #eastlake, #furniture, #materialculture, Books
As is often my practice when confronted with issues outside my control (Covid-19, the weather, potty-training a recalcitrant toddler), I turn either to a good book or to musings about historic homes. Today I am fixing my thoughts on this 1911 design of a quintessentially quixotic dwelling from Sears, Roebuck and Co. The two-story house (read more)
Stories and the people who created them enliven the most basic of buildings. Sometimes, of course, stories of personal tragedy envelop a structure like a cloud, and that cloud overshadows the most elegant and masterful of designs. So it is with Meadowcrest, an imposing Neo-Georgian house designed by prominent local architect Robert McMeekin in 1931. (read more)
Categories: Demolition, Fayette County
Tags: #hamburgplace, #JohnEMadden, #kentuckyarchitecture, #lexingtonky, thoroughbreds
A once-imposing and important piece of African American history in Lexington and Kentucky went up in flames on the night of January 3, 2022. Although local news sources referred to the building as an “old church building,” the structure located between Georgetown Street and Newtown Pike was first known as the Chandler Normal School and (read more)
Categories: African American History, Fayette County
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)
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