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One of These Things is Not Like the Others: South Burns Avenue, Winchester, Kentucky

February 10, 2022

Remember the puzzles in Highlights Magazine? The ones where you peer closely at a busy drawing to determine what’s out of place? Sometimes being an architectural historian is much like those puzzles. There’s such a house near downtown Winchester, Kentucky, and I’ve never been able to learn anything about it. In a neighborhood of late-19th (read more)

Category: Clark County

Tags: #kentuckyarchitecture, #winchesterky

Save Me! Allen Chapel CME Church, Winchester, Kentucky

July 26, 2020

The African Methodist Episcopal Church (also known as the Colored Methodist Church, or CME) has deep roots in Winchester, Kentucky. Prior to the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, worship was celebrated in the basement of the local Methodist Church, but by 1866, the congregation purchased their first parcel for building. Allen Chapel CME Church was (read more)

Categories: Churches, Clark County, Kentucky churches

Tags: #africanamericanchurch, #africanamericanhistory, #kentuckyarchitecture, #winchesterky

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