Happy #TudorTuesday! Today’s featured Tudor Revival building is this one-and-one-half story stone veneer dwelling was built between 1925 and 1930 in Lexington, Kentucky. The house rests on a stone foundation and has a sharply peaked, projecting cross gable entry vestibule with a catslide slope centered on the façade.
Façade of the house.
An exterior stone chimney is located on the east side of the gable on the facade. In 1930, this was the home of Richard and Leone Allen. He was a professor at the University of Kentucky. In 1931-32, Elizie and Addie Burguin lived in this house. He was a laundry superintendent at the Phoenix Hotel. From 1933-34, this was the home of William and Ruth Donnelly (no occupation listed).
Façade and side elevation.
Beautiful home 🏠
And was a Sears kit home!
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Leon P Gilbert, a Baptist minister and Army Chaplain from Natchitoches, TX moved his family into this home when Southland Dr. Was the first commercial road between Nicholasville and Lexington. My grandmother, his youngest child, was 9 yrs old at that time. That was 80 yrs ago. He had 3 daughters and 1 son. He passed in the 70s. His middle daughter, Betty Jane Gilbert, lived in the house till 2010. This was her home for over 70 yrs.
Similar to 627 Columbia Av Lexington For many years the home of Lindsey and Betty Thomason. He was a salesman for the old Transylvania Printing Company. This property was known all over Lexington for its meticulous manicured lawn and beautiful landscaping in its day.
That house had a twin next to it but was torn down when the hospital next door expanded.