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Tombstone Junction was a small, Western-town-themed park located on Kentucky Route 90 in McCreary County, Kentucky near the Cumberland Falls State Resort Park. It began operating in the 1960s and continued uninterrupted until it was heavily damaged by fire in 1989.
The Zeigler house is the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure built in Kentucky during the lifetime of the famous architect. The design came from a chance meeting between Zeigler and Wright while both were traveling to Europe in late October 1909. They struck up a conversation and the commission of this structure, completed the following year, was ...
Oldest surviving house in Johnson County; built 1843; Fryer House – Home of pioneer Walter Fryer; built 1811; Glen Willis – built 1815; Hausgen House – Colonial Revival style house; built c. 1890; Hawkins House – Has served as a ropewalk and a dormitory for the Georgetown Female Seminary. Became a residential home in 1858; built c. 1790
Salle A. Scott bought Waveland in 1894. She sold the property in 1899 to James A Hullet. In 1956, the Commonwealth of Kentucky bought the house and about 200 acres (81 ha) of the original 2,000 acres (810 ha) for preservation (the house) and use by the University of Kentucky of the larger farmland for research and experimental agriculture.
Adsmore was added to the National Register of Historic Places and in 1973. [2] It opened as a museum in 1986. [2]The grounds of Adsmore contain the house structure, the carriage house that now serves as a gift shop, and a log cabin. [5]
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The Lexington Opera House is a theatre located at 401 West Short Street in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. Built in 1886, the Opera House replaced the former theatre, located on the corner of Main and Broadway, after fire destroyed it in January 1886. [ 1 ]
Gov. Andy Beshear delivered the State of the Commonwealth address inside the State Capitol in Frankfort on Jan. 4, 2023. Beshear's budget proposal is already on the table for the 2024 session.