CALEB F. LILLY HOUSE
218 E. 3rd
Street, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Built 1848
Source: Old Houses of Lexington, C. Frank Dunn, typescript, n.d., copy located in the Kentucky Room, Lexington (Kentucky) Public Library
George W. Anderson sold Joshua Frost Lot No. 5 in Nicholas Square in 1838 and he conveyed it to Nathaniel Cropper who sold it to Augustus Barley in December, 1844.
Barley erected the house here, borrowing funds from Mrs. Gracie Briggs early in 1848 with a lien on his home. He and his wife, Frances paid off the mortgage and sold the house January 11, 1850, to Caleb F. Lilly.
Caleb F. and Gustavus Lilly (who lived in Combs Square) conducted a china store in Lexington, a partnership which they dissolved September 27, 1848, according to the following mortgage deed recorded on that date:
"Whereas Caleb F. Lilly and Gustavus Lilly have dissolved the co-partnership in their china store and business in the City of Lexington upon the following terms: Caleb F. Lilly is to have all the merchandise on hand and ordered and is to have all the debts and assets of said firm and pay all debts and liabilities," Caleb F. Lilly mortgaged to Gustavus Lilly "all the merchandise on hand including any future importations and transfers and assigns all title and interest in and to his father's estate in the city of Baltimore, Md." John B. Johnson was appointed by them as agent "to collect or compromise" the father's estate and "appropriate the same in payment of the debts due for the sale of the original stock from said Johnson."
Caleb F. Lilly issued a mortgage to Edward McCalester April 7, 1852, on his house, and two weeks later he and his wife, Henriettam sold it to Wm. B. Sayer, still described as Lot. No. 5 in Nicholas Square.
Thomas Bridges Sayer a month later (May 22, 1852) sold the brick house to Eliza Susannah Robinson.
Transcribed, Pam Brinegar, May 2000