HUGH LONEY RESIDENCE

220 S. Broadway, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Built before 1839

Source: Old Houses of Lexington, C. Frank Dunn, typescript, n.d., copy located in the Kentucky Room, Lexington (Kentucky) Public Library.

Francis Krickel, the inn-keeper on the adjoining corner, built this house more than a century ago.

Krickel, preparing to move West, sold his old log tavern on the corner and this house to Albert O. Newton (also a fine brick house on Maxwell St.) on April 11, 1839.

Newton and his wife, Julia, sold the two houses here some four months later to Hugh Loney.

The 1859 Directory lists: Hugh Lonney, family grocery, e.s. Broadway, bet. Vine and High--house n.e. cor. Broadway and High."

After Loney's death, his administrator sold the log tavern to Mrs. S.J. Fox (it burned in the 1880's), and to Mrs. Mary Campbell this house next "to Mrs. Fox--being the two-story brick store house and residence, and part of the property conveyed to H. Lonney, dec'd, by A.O. Newton."

Hugh Loney must have rented the house as far back as 1833, as the cholera plague victims of that year listed "Mrs. Catherine Loney, wife of Hugh Loney, and Mrs. Catherine Loney, her mother," both "Main Cross St."

Transcribed by Pam Brinegar, March 2000