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  • Drawing of Adsmore House, which was built in the 1850s by dry goods merchant John Higgins. The house was built in the Greek Revival style and is located on N. Jefferson Street in Princeton, Kentucky. In July 1973 the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places and became a museum in 1986.

  • Van Dyke Mill located in Finchville, Kentucky.

  • Sketch of Green's Water Power Mill located in Falls of Rough, Kentucky.

  • Sketch of The McMichael Place located in Anchorage, Kentucky.

  • Sketch of the Preston Place located in Glasgow, Kentucky.

  • Sketch of the Rowland House located in Carrollton, Kentucky.

  • Sketch of the Reuben T. Taylor House located in Shelbyville, Kentucky.

  • Hurricane Hill located in Westport, Kentucky.

  • Sketch of the Tom Kephart House located in Pleasureville, Kentucky.

  • Sketch of Woodlawn in Shelbyville, Kentucky.

  • Sketch of Mansfield in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Henry Watterson was the founder and owner of the Louisville Courier-Journal. In 1894 he bought Joseph Hite's property which consisted of 100 acres including a four-room house about a mile from the main square in Jeffersontown, now an independent city within Jefferson County. Watterson transformed the house and property into a grand estate named "Mansfield" after the childhood home of his wife. In 1975 the estate, which had fallen into disrepair, was purchased by a developer. Amid much controversy, the mansion burned in 1976 and was later demolished.

  • Sketch of Spring Grove in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1812 Samuel and Abigail Oldham Churchill purchased 306 acres adjoining his parents' property and built Spring Grove. The brick home was known for its rich carved woodwork and would later become the home of R. C. Ballard Thruston, former president of The Filson Historical Society.

  • Sketch of Heavenhill Homestead located in Bardstown, Kentucky.

  • Sketch of the Happy Ridge Farm, which is located in Simpsonville, Kentucky.

  • This covered bridge is possibly a bridge that once spanned the Beech Fork River, a half mile from Bardstown, Kentucky. It was constructed in 1865 at the end of the Civil War to replace a bridge that was burned by General John Hunt Morgan's raiders. The bridge closed to travel in 1933 and collapsed in 1938.

  • The description on the back of the sketch reads "Home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bayne near Shelbyville, KY"

  • The Davis House, more commonly known today as Davis Tavern, was built by William White, the surveyor of Middletown, in eastern Jefferson County. By 1820 the home was purchased by Abraham Ramsey who modified the house into a tavern. In 1841 Susan B. Davis purchased the home and later passed the home to her daughter Susannah Brown, whose husband, Abell Brown, was granted a tavern license. Hattie Brown and her husband, Dr. Luther Paris Wetherby, inherited the tavern, and eventually converted the tavern into apartments. The structure still stands today, and is now used as the Middletown city hall.

  • Built in 1837 by Gabriel Farnsley (1800-1849), Moremen's Villa, now known as Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing is one of the last remaining nineteenth-century houses in southwestern Jefferson County. The house stands at the center of more than 300-acre landmark property on the banks of the Ohio River.

  • Federal Hill, the home of John Rowan, jurist and congressman, is located in Bardstown, Kentucky. Construction of the Georgian-style mansion began in 1795 and was completed in 1818. Undocumented legend maintains that the house may have been inspiration for Stephen Foster’s song, “My Old Kentucky Home,” published in 1852.
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