Every historic building has a story to tell
In honor of Historic Preservation Month, I’d like to share one of the things I enjoy most about historic buildings: their evolution and change. That may seem to be at odds with the whole idea of historic preservation, but buildings are physical expressions of history, left to us to appreciate (or not) and read (read more)
Category: Boyle County
Tag: #danvilleky
The rural landscape of Kentucky teems with historic churches. I can count on seeing them from my windshield view, no matter what part of the state I am crossing. Some are tattered and quite literally torn by disuse and neglect. Others bear the badge of modernization – visible by the layers of siding, additions, or (read more)
For as long as I can remember, a dry sink in the corner of the den of my childhood home has held stacks and stacks of photograph albums. As a little girl, I delighted in rifling through them, asking questions, peering into the faces of long-gone relatives, and excitedly pointing out sights I could identify. (read more)
During my senior year at Centre College, I had an internship in Perryville, Kentucky. Despite being an English major, I was becoming more and more obsessed with history, and when I wasn’t conducting deed research (the real point of my internship), I was haunting the buildings of Merchant’s Row (one of the only surviving 19th-century (read more)
Category: Boyle County
Tags: #battleofperryville, #drpolk, #heritagetourism, #kentuckyarchitecture, #perryvilleky
I typically don’t like to write about buildings I’ve never seen in person – the experience of cataloging a house in my head as my eyes dart over its various components, and walking through its rooms, imbues a meaning that goes far beyond the facade (and what can be seen in a photograph). That said, (read more)
When I was a student at Centre College, I focused more on English literature (and some other less noble and spirited pursuits) than the landscape around me. But I remember a stark two-story brick house, near Duke’s Laundry on South Fourth Street (for $5, they would wash, dry, and fold an overflowing basket of laundry). (read more)
Categories: Architecture, Bluegrass, Boyle County, Historic Preservation, Kentucky, Kentucky architecture
Tags: Centre College, Danville Kentucky, demolition, Fisher-Byington House, Greek Revival in Danville, historic preservation, McClure-Barbee House, Old Centre, Robert Russel Jr., South Fourth Street
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