#346 S. Mill, Lexington, Fayette
County, Kentucky
Built 1846
Source: Old Houses of Lexington, C. Frank Dunn, typescript, n.d., copy located in the Kentucky Room, Lexington (Kentucky) Public Library.
C.F. Brower, father of the late C.F. Brower, head of C.F. Brower & Co., bought this house from James March in 1853. It was built by March in 1846.
The 1859 directory lists: "C.F. Brower, piano tuner, office C.S. Bodley's, house e.s. Mill St. bet. High and Maxwell."
M.G. Thompson bought the house in 1864 and conveyed it the same year to David Biggerstaff.
Biggerstaff sold in 1865 to Edward Shannon.
Shannon held the house until 1883, when he traded it to S.M. Hibler.
The little frame cottage (next) occupies the site of "Masterson St." of pioneer days, and the new brick house (#340) is the once ornate carriage house of Samuel Trotter. Col. George Robertson converted it into a residence and sold it, after he acquired "Rokeby Hall."
Transcribed by pb February 2003