#149 4th St.,
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Built 1814
Source: Old Houses of Lexington, C. Frank Dunn, typescript, n.d., copy located in the Kentucky Room, Lexington (Kentucky) Public Library.
Hugh Carlan in August, 1814, paid Samuel Long $1,250 for 220 feet fronting 4th St. (160 feet back to an alley) between Joseph Singer's lot and the lot "formerly owned by Jabez Vigus." He and his wife, Maria, were among the heirs of Wm. Satterwhite.
Carlan erected a "mansion" and other houses on his lot, which was "commonly called Carlan's Row," according to a deed to Wm. Wiseman in 1855 by Danl. R. Carlan, to whom it "descended to said Daniel from his father, Hugh Carland." The son had mortgaged the property to Richard Pindell and at forced sale in 1854 Wiseman bought it (he referred to it in his will as the "Carlan House.")
Judge R.A. Buckner, executor of "Will Wiseman," sold 60 feet on 4th St. "on which there is a brick dwelling house known as the Carlan house" in 1860 to Thomas Cain, in whose family it remained for many years.
The 1838 Directory erroneously spelled Carlan's name as "Hugh Carbin, E. Fourth, bet. N. Mulberry, and Walnut St."
Transcribed by pb April 2003