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Lexington Opera House
The Lexington Opera House was built in 1886 following the ...
Victorian Commercial Block
The Victorian Commercial Block is an important commercial ...
Mary Todd Lincoln House
This simple two story brick building on West Main Street w...
Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument
The nationally reputed garden cemetery in Lexington, Kentu...
McConnell Springs
McConnell Springs is a significant site in Lexington histo...
Floral Hall
Floral Hall was built in 1882 by John McMurtry. The buildi...
National Historic Landmark - Keeneland
Lexington, the heart of Kentucky "bluegrass," has been ren...
Richmond National Battlefield Park
Richmond National Battlefield Park consists of several sep...
Wilton
Constructed between 1750 and 1753, Wilton is an impressive...
West of Boulevard Historic District
West of Boulevard Historic District is a 69-block resident...
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Lexington Opera House
The Lexington Opera House was built in 1886 following the destruction by fire of the earlier opera house. Designed by the noted theatrical architect Oscar Cobb of Chicago, the opera house was opened on August 19, 1887 with a production ...
Victorian Commercial Block
The Victorian Commercial Block is an important commercial center in downtown Lexington. Its commercial buildings were constructed primarily during the 1870s and 1880s, a period of great prosperity and trade in Lexington's history. A wide variety of businesses were found ...
Mary Todd Lincoln House
This simple two story brick building on West Main Street was home to Robert S. Todd and his family, including his daughter Mary, wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Mary Todd was not born at ...
Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument
The nationally reputed garden cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky, is the burial site of many notable Kentuckians. Lexington Cemetery was the first rural cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky. The burial ground was originally established in 1849 on 40 acres of land but ...
McConnell Springs
McConnell Springs is a significant site in Lexington history successfully preserved by local citizens. It is at McConnell Springs that the naming of the city of Lexington took place in 1775. In the 1770s Kentucky began attracting numerous frontiersmen, particularly ...
Floral Hall
Floral Hall was built in 1882 by John McMurtry. The building was originally an exhibition hall for floral displays on what was then the Fair Grounds of the Kentucky Agricultural & Mechanical Association. The large, brick octagonal shaped building is ...
National Historic Landmark - Keeneland
Lexington, the heart of Kentucky "bluegrass," has been renowned for two centuries for horse raising and horse racing. Shortly after the track's completion in 1936, Keeneland Racetrack became the most conspicuous manifestation of this culture. Jack Keene, for whom Keeneland ...
Richmond National Battlefield Park
Richmond National Battlefield Park consists of several separate Civil War battlefields east and south of Richmond. Richmond stood as the capital of the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. The city also became the industrial and political center of the fledgling ...
Wilton
Constructed between 1750 and 1753, Wilton is an impressive example of a colonial-era plantation house that once hosted esteemed guests such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Originally located on a 2,000-acre tobacco plantation several miles ...
West of Boulevard Historic District
West of Boulevard Historic District is a 69-block residential neighborhood in the West End of the city. Developed from about 1895 until about 1940, the district conforms to an irregular grid pattern of broad tree-shaded east-west avenues and narrower north-south ...
