Abandoned houses

September 5, 2018

Traffic along Leestown Road continues to grow each year – but at certain times of day, the drive between Lexington and Frankfort can be magical – especially once you leave the thicket of 20th century development behind, and pockets of farmland appear on either side of the road. Having lived and worked in Frankfort at (read more)

Categories: Abandoned houses, Scott County

Tags: Leestown Road, Lewis Nuckols House, National Register of Historic Places

August 29, 2018

When I am asked to talk about Kentucky architecture, I always stress the importance of recognizing style versus type or plan. Stylistic architectural details can be applied much later than the date of construction of a house – a “keeping up with the Jones” in architecture. But the type or plan of a house is (read more)

Categories: Abandoned houses, West Virginia

Tags: #westvirginia, Farmhouse

June 11, 2018

In 1774, Thomas Hanson, a member of land surveying party out of Virginia, wrote of his surroundings, “the land is so good I cannot give it due praise.”* The area that captivated Hanson was around the North Elkhorn Creek watershed in Scott County, and on a shimmeringly hot afternoon last week, I couldn’t help but (read more)

Categories: Abandoned houses, Kentucky architecture, Scott County

Tags: #brickhouse, #kentuckyarchitecture, #millersrunhistoricdistrict, #northelkhorncreek, #scottcountyky, North Elkhorn

May 30, 2018

The Internet has made reams of historic data available for nerds like myself, digging into the nooks and crannies of old buildings, attempting to reconstruct a timeline and story for forgotten buildings. But for every National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination I can retrieve on my computer, there are thousands and thousands of evocative (read more)

Categories: Abandoned houses, North Carolina, North Carolina architecture

Tags: abandoned North Carolina, Trenton North Carolina

Lewis Nuckols House, Scott County, Kentucky

Back(stories): A West Virginia Farmhouse

Thomas Barlow House, Scott County, Kentucky

I-House at West Jones and Monk Streets, Trenton, North Carolina

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