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Newton Craig House, Georgetown
This gorgeous old house surprised us in rural Kentucky one day. The Newton Craig House was built in 1830 and expanded in 1870. Craig served as the warden for the state penitentiary which had some of its buildings right here on his property at one time.Elijah Craig, the inventor of Kentucky bourbon, was Newton’s brother.…
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Joseph C. Widmer House
The Joseph C. Widmer House was built in 1895. Joseph was a business manager for National Tobacco Works. The home is said to be haunted by a young girl named Lucy, though there are no records of anyone by that name ever living there.
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The Taylor House – Midway, KY
The Taylor House in Midway, Kentucky was built in 1876. It was designed by David Lehman as an adaptation of an A.J. Downing design. Many of the homes in this town can be attributed to Lehman and he built three of them here in this style.
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Butchertown Shotgun House
Another Butchertown beauty. Built somewhere around 1900 and as vibrant as ever!
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Is it Louisville? or New Orleans?
Never forget this New Orleans house stuck in a Butchertown body.
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Beautiful Georgetown, KY Home
I will never not love a house with a gate. Throw a gate in front and I’m all . But also, this house is adorable in Georgetown!
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Old Louisville Historic Home
Johnson Mason Maury (pictured) was an American architect who designed and built over 700 homes and buildings, mostly in Louisville. This may be the most interesting. It’s the only one that he did like it. I think he must have gotten a wild hair! That porch is said to be an exotic Moorish style. It…
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Historic Montgomery House
The Montgomery House was built in 1894 on a hill above Royal Spring Branch. The home’s land was once part of a large equine operation called Bluegrass Park owned by Alexander Keene Richards. He was known as “One of America’s great horsemen”. This home is now one of three on West Main Street in Georgetown…
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Brownsboro Zorn Tudor
How about an interesting Tudor today? One thing I love about this style is that just about anything goes. Big windows, small windows, square windows, round windows. Who cares! In the end, the Tudor style is always interesting and keeps us on our architectural toes. This one is in the Brownsboro Zorn neighborhood of Louisville,…
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House on Louisville’s Millionaire’s Row
This gorgeous Renaissance Revival was built in 1884. It sits on Millionaire’s Row in Old Louisville among many other majestic mansions. It’s over 6,000 square feet and that fountain out front is an antique!
