Kentucky architecture

January 5, 2015

I am easily seduced by sense of place. I’m a Kentuckian (sixth generation of a family with chronically long generations ), so part of that may be genetic. Plus, I’m a nerd for history, and the tantalizing mixture of building, feature, landscape and memory with which so many of our historic places seethe. My first (read more)

Categories: Bluegrass, Kentucky architecture, Shakers, Tourism

Tags: Historic architecture, Kentucky tourism, Mercer County, Shakers, Shakertown, Thomas Merton

November 5, 2014

One of the significant historic aspects of Kentucky is its numerous crossroad communities and hamlets, located scant miles apart along a county’s road or waterway networks. This collection of buildings, surrounded by farmland, may indeed be located at the juncture of two roads, but could also be located near a ford in a river, or (read more)

Categories: Abandoned Kentucky, Crossroad communities, Kentucky architecture, Kentucky Places

Tags: #kentuckyarchitecture, #livingstoncountyky, #lolaky, #ruralkentucky

October 24, 2014

Election season in Kentucky…barbs, innuendos and bluster hang as heavy in the air as does pollen during the spring and fall. And like the pollen, all of the posturing makes me want to sneeze repeatedly to clear my head and stop the onslaught of buzzwords. Sadly, allergies are easier to deal with, but despite the (read more)

Category: Kentucky architecture

Tags: Ahrens, Architecture, Harrodsburg KY, Louisville KY, Progressive Era

October 17, 2014

I am a child of frame tobacco barns, heavily laden with burley tobacco, dust and dry bits of leaves dancing together in the air. These barns, with their straightforward appearance, clad in vertical boards, spread out across the farms of my childhood. Located on hills, to take advantage of the wind, they balanced on stone (read more)

Categories: Bluegrass, Farming, Historic Preservation, Kentucky architecture

Tags: #historicbarns, #tobaccobarns, barns, farming

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Kentucky Places: Lola (not the Ray Davies version), Livingston County

Awakening and Building: A look at the Progressive Era and Architecture (Part 1)

Sentinels of Memory: Kentucky’s Tobacco Barns

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