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Waveland State Historic Site, also known as the Joseph Bryan House, in Lexington, Kentucky is the site of a Greek Revival home and 10 acres now maintained and operated as part of the Kentucky state park system. It was the home of the Joseph Bryan family, their descendants and the people they enslaved in the nineteenth century.
It was named after early Lexington businessman Benjamin Gratz whose home stands on the corner of Mill and New streets at the edge of Gratz Park. The Gratz Park Historic District consists of 16 contributing buildings including the Hunt-Morgan House , the Bodley-Bullock House, the original Carnegie Library, which now houses the Carnegie Center ...
This site is the center piece of the University of Kentucky's Adena Park and is located on a bank 75 feet (23 m) above Elkhorn Creek.It features a causewayed ring ditch with a circular 105-foot (32 m) diameter platform, surrounded by a 45-foot (14 m) wide ditch and a 13-foot (4.0 m) wide enclosure with a 33-foot (10 m) wide entryway facing to the west.
The hotel constructed by the Webb Companies beginning in 1978 and was completed in 1982 [2] [3] as the Radisson Plaza Hotel Lexington. The hotel left Radisson in August 2008 and briefly operated as the Lexington Downtown Hotel & Conference Center during renovations [ 4 ] until October 14, 2009, when it was renamed Hilton Lexington/Downtown .
The Woolworth, F.W., Building was a historic department store building located in Lexington, Kentucky, that served as a retail location for the F. W. Woolworth Company from 1946 to 1990. It was designed by Frederick W. Garber. The store was the site of protests during the Civil Rights Movement against segregation during the 1960s.
The Hunt–Morgan House, historically known as Hopemont, is a Federal style residence in Lexington, Kentucky built in 1814 by John Wesley Hunt, the first millionaire west of the Alleghenies. The house is included in the Gratz Park Historic District. The Alexander T. Hunt Civil War Museum is located on the second floor of the Hunt–Morgan House ...
The Blue Hole spring at McConnell Springs in Lexington, Kentucky. McConnell Springs is a twenty-six acre natural park located at the historic springs where the city of Lexington, Kentucky was named. [2] The park is a non-profit organization in partnership with the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Division of Parks and Recreation. The ...
The Fayette National Bank Building, also known as the First National Bank Building or 21C Museum Hotel Lexington, is a historic 15-story high-rise in Lexington, Kentucky. The building was designed by the prominent architecture firm McKim, Mead & White and built by the George A. Fuller Company from 1913 to 1914.