337 S. Mill St., Lexington, Fayette
County, Kentucky
Built 1815
Source: Old Houses of Lexington, C. Frank Dunn, typescript, n.d., copy located in the Kentucky Room, Lexington (Kentucky) Public Library.
Wm. C. Bell, Esq., purchased a frontage on 67 1/2 feet "at the north corner of Mill and Masterson Sts." and adjoining "James Lemon's lot" from General Thomas Bodley and erected this imposing house before 1816. It was part of outlot "P" which General Bodley acquired from James Masterson.
Bell and his wife, Huldah C., sold the house and lot to Wm. Christy in 1816, from whom it was purchased by James Johnson, brother of Colonel Richard M. Johnson.
The Johnsons and Uriel Sebree conveyed this and 15 other pieces of property to the Bank of the United States in 1824, and the bank sold this house to Thomas Smith December 1, 1829. (Sebree & Johnson operated a large store at the north-west corner of Main and Mill Sts. (1838 Thos. Smith, Jordans Row - 10 N. Upper St.)
Thos. Smith and wife, Mary S., and Turner R.H. Smith and wife Mary E., the latter of Calloway County, Mo., sold the house for $4,200 to Lewis Faulconer in April, 1852. (1859 Dir: Mrs. Harriet Faulconer, W.S. Mill b High and Maxwell.)
The administrator of Lewis Faulconer, dec'd., conveyed the house and 67 1/2 feet to Joseph H. Harrison in 1866, and it remained in the Harrison family for many years. It is still known as the "Joe Harrison House."
Transcribed by pb October 2002