The most sustainable building is the one that is already built. Rehabilitating historic properties conserves taxpayers’ dollars, conserves our local heritage, and conserves the natural environment. Rehabilitating historic buildings and using the infrastructure that is already in place to serve them is the height of fiscal and environmental responsibility.
The owner has applied for a demolition permit but is hoping to sell it to a new owner who will preserve it. This 1791 brick home was built by Captain James Wright on a land grant received for his service in the French and Indian War. It includes a 1786 log cabin. The main house features original ash flooring, cherry and walnut interior millwork, doors, mantles and trim, and English door hardware. It’s located at the southern edge of Paris overlooking Paris Pike and Lexington Road and Houston Creek. The property is 2.39 acres with an additional 13.7 contiguous acres available with the creek as shared boundary.
>Read Lexington Herald-Leader columnist Tom Eblen’s article here
>Listed in the National Register of Historic Places; details here
>Qualifies for Federal and Kentucky Historic Preservation Tax Credits; details here
>Purchase details here
The 1885 Barnes House in Mt. Washington, Bullitt County, will be the latest victim of another big box store (CVS) if it isn’t moved to a nearby site. Mt. Washington has already lost 9 of 12 National Register properties since 1993, leaving them with little authentic historic character, and significant loss of heritage and cultural tourism. The Mt. Washington Historic Society has done a terrific job raising money for the move, but more is needed to make it happen.
>You can help through their GoFundMe page here
>Listed in the National Register of Historic Places; details here
>Qualifies for Federal and Kentucky Historic Preservation Tax Credits; details here
Kentucky Baptist Hospital was the first Baptist hospital in Kentucky when it opened in 1924 at Barret Avenue and DeBarr Street, near Breckinridge Street in Louisville. A second building was added in 1960 for the hospital’s school of nursing. Changes to the hospital building have been dramatic over the years, with wings added and a modern lobby with a vertical extension on top created between the wings, replacing the columned front from 1924. Jefferson County government bought the property in 1988. The complex was decommissioned as the Louisville Urban Government Center in 2016.
>Kentucky Heritage Council/State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) determined the building to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
>Qualifies for Federal and Kentucky Historic Preservation Tax Credits; details here.
>Owner: City of Louisville
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