Every historic building has a story to tell
Two years ago, after an exhausting day battling bush honeysuckle, ticks, and the heat, my friend Eric and I roamed about Edmonson County, Kentucky, looking for interesting historic buildings. We found plenty, but the most interesting was the former home of U.S. Representative Beverly Mills Vincent (1890-1980). The early 20th century house is lovely, (read more)
Category: Edmonson County
Tags: #beverlymillsvincent, #brownsvilleky, #edmonsoncountyky, #kentuckyarchitecture
In 1960, the city of Paducah voted to buy the Katterjohn Building for its new City Hall. That plan never transpired, but the 1919 building, the former Illinois Central Hospital, was saved by George Katterjohn, Jr., a Paducah native and contractor. A successful adaptive reuse project turned the former hospital into medical offices. But that (read more)
January is usually a hard month, and the weather so far has not helped – Kentucky has been wet and cold, and then cold and wet. Thankfully, it is Whimsical Wednesday, so I shall lift my spirits (and hopefully yours?) with the fabulous J.N. Struck House. Built in 1893 by J.N. Struck, a contractor and (read more)
Categories: Jefferson County, Louisville
Tags: #highlandshistoricdistrict, #jnstruck, #kentuckyarchitecture, #louisvilleky
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
There’s not much that can beat a drive through verdant Kentucky countryside on a summer day. A few years ago, I was on my way back from somewhere (the location often isn’t as important as the trip along the way) when I decided to meander down a road adjacent to the Kentucky River in (read more)
Category: Estill County
Tags: #estillcountyky, #kentuckyarchitecture, #kentuckyplaces, #pryseky, #texolaky
Years ago, in a flat, flood-prone piece bottom land squeezed between Old Lawrenceburg Road and the Kentucky River, there sat a white frame house and a barn. I remember it, vaguely, in the days before smart phone cameras, when I was in Frankfort and driving out toward the East-West Connector. It wasn’t located in a (read more)
Category: Franklin County
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