THOS. JANUARY LOG HOUSE

Third St. between Mill and Broadway
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky

Built  before 1817

One of the original houses (built of logs and since weatherboarded) on Thos. January's "Mount Hope" property, this house has descended from earlier than 1817.

Thos. January on December 29, 1817, sold to Henry Cassell 35 feet on Third Street for $560 "beginning on North side of 10' alley (running from 3rd to New St.), thence with line of alley towards New St. 80', thence at right angles 35' towards Main Cross St. thence 80' to 3rd St."

Cassell conveyed it to Level Hilton in 1821 and he sold it to Thos. W. Webb in 1829. Margaret Shindlebower bought the house the same month.

Margaret Shindlebower—"now Mrs. David K. Brisby"—sold it in 1839 to Robert Fleming and upon his death the house was allotted to Elizabeth J. Thompson, one of his heirs.

Robert A. Thompson and wife (Elizabeth J.) sold it to Isaiah King in 1865. King already was living (1859-60 Directory) in the little brick house and had a flower and truck garden extending to Broadway.

This house—now a two-story—is weather-boarded log around the two front rooms, and part brick in the middle.

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

Transcribed by pb, October 2006