Every historic building has a story to tell
I’ve been avoiding writing this post since last Wednesday. Something like a mental version of heartburn has alternately left me sputtering with rage and then sinking into a dismal pothole of gloom. The Louisville Metro Landmarks Commission, in a 6 to 4 vote, decided to not landmark the historic shotgun pedestrian court of Lawton Court. (read more)
Category: Jefferson County
Historic preservation doesn’t have a very long history in our young country, and the modern preservation movement can be traced back to the mid-19th century and the fight to save the home of the first President, George Washington. Mount Vernon isn’t what one would describe as modest and humble. From that point on, preservation tended (read more)
Category: Jefferson County
Tags: #louisvilleky, #louisvillelandmarks, #shotgunhouse, #tinyhouse, #vernaculararchitecure
Sometimes, my day boils down to deciphering the scrawl of an architectural historian from four decades ago and squinting at tiny black and white photographs. The building depicted in these minute images is now nothing but bare earth surrounded by a copse of trees – but if it weren’t for those two pieces of paper (read more)
Category: Bourbon County
Raise your hand if you’ve ever seen the name of a town on a sign and detoured from your route to find that place with the evocative name – yes, both of my hands would be in the air if I weren’t utilizing them to type. How can one not investigate the potential treasures of (read more)
Category: Hopkins County
Tag: #beulahky
Sometimes when you look for one thing – you find something else! While shuffling through years of emails earlier today, I found this photograph of a handsome historic house in Bourbon County, Kentucky. The email was dated 2011, but I can’t claim to know the date of the photograph. It may well be the (read more)
Category: Bourbon County
We witnessed a spectacular sunset on New Year’s Eve, as we rambled on the farm and took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather. The week before, on December 23, wind chills of -25 to -30 degrees below freezing thrust us back into the 19th century, as our pipes froze, and we spent a lot of (read more)
Category: 1901 Farmhouse
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