David Fisher House, Fayette County, KY

DAVID FISHER HOUSE

348 S. Mill St., Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Built 1812

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

David Fisher (1818 Dir.: "House Joiner, Mill St.") was presented with a lot here in 1812 by John Fisher and wife, Polly, and erected this brick residence for his residence.

James Masterson and wife, Margaret, had just sold John Fisher a "tract beginning on the continuation of Mill St., at a corner of Masterson St., thence south-west with Mill St. 50 feet to corner of the lot owned by Geo. Trotter, Sr., and Samuel Trotter." It was extended back "200 feet to Thos. H. Pindell's Rope Walk" and was part of Outlot "O."

Jacob Sowerbray purchased the house in 1830, "adjoining the property of the late Samuel Trotter and now occupied by Mrs. Petty." Sowerbray sold to John McKenzie in 1835.

(1838 Dir.: "John McKenzie, Coffee House, 5 N. Mill St., res. S. Mill bet. High and Maxwell).

Miss Zillah Rock bought the property in 1836 from McKenzie and wife, Sarah.

In 1846, Benj. Hinkle and wife, Zilla (Rock), sold to James March. March was a builder and he then constructed the next house. In 1853, he sold the old house to Patrick O. Reordan, and his new house (#346) to C.F. Brower.

(James March, in a deed of trust to Thos. Dolan, described this property as "two houses and lots on the south-east side of Mill Street adjoining the residence of Judge Robertson." In his deed to Reordan for the David Fisher House he stated that it fronted 25 feet, between the house of Chloe Foreman and C.F. Brower.

Patrick H. Reordan and wife, Ellen, sold their property in 1856 to Isabella Stevens.

Wm. R. Stevens and wife, Isabella, sold in 1859 to Martin Frazer of Jessamine County.

Frazer's heirs (M.B. Frazer and wife, Catherine, and George Frazer, Jessamine County; Thos. Hifner and wife, Mary, Woodford County, and W.H. Merriott and wife, Emily, Fayette County) conveyed the house in January, 1863, to Richard Loud, woolen manufacturer operating where the C. & O. freight depot is today located near Rose Street.

Richard Loud and Mary Ann, his wife, signed an agreement in December to turn over to Mrs. Loud "his brick house on Mill St. where she now resides, adjoining the residence of Mr. Brower," and appointed Mr. David Bell her trustee, Mrs. Loud to renounce dower right.

The Stivers family were the next occupants and resided here for many years.

Transcribed by pb November 2005