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Historic American Buildings Survey Lester Jones, Photographer June 1, 1940 ENTRANCE DETAIL FROM SOUTH - Mount Hope, 231 North Mill Street, Lexington, Fayette County, KY
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Historic American Buildings Survey Lester Jones, Photographer June 1, 1940 ENTRANCE DETAIL FROM SOUTH - Mount Hope, 231 North Mill Street, Lexington, Fayette County, KY
Description
January, Thomas
Depicted place Kentucky; Fayette County; Lexington
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS KY,34-LEX,5-2
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: In the spring of 1824 Benjamin Gratz became the owner of Mt. Hope, taking there his young wife, Maria Cecil Gist, daughter of Col. Nathaniel Gist. Three of the six sons of Benjamin Gratz were born there as was also his wife's illustrious nephew, Banjamin Gratz Brown, governor of Missouri. The Marquis de Lafayette was a guest at Mt. Hope and the children made orphans by the cholera scourge of 1833 were gathered here. Also at Mt. Hope was spent the boyhood of the Confederate General Joseph Orville Shelby. Mrs. Thomas Hart Clay, a daughter by a second marriage, inherited the place in 1892 and about 25 years later Mrs. Jere Rogers Morton, a granddaughter, came back to live in the house in which she was born.
  • Survey number: HABS KY-56
  • Building/structure dates: 1814 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ky0133.photos.070514p
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