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deTour: Spindletop Hall
The Blue Grass Trust’s deTours is a group of young professionals (and the young at heart). The program provides behind-the-scenes tours of historic buildings, places, and sites in central Kentucky....
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deTour: Spindletop Hall (cont’d)
This is a continuation of deTour: Spindletop Hall. If you have checked out Part I, find it here! Rumor is Pansy couldn’t decide which spindle she liked best so she used them all. Over the Top Interiors...
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Pansy’s Handpainted Suite
Pansy’s Suite at Spindletop Hall as it looks now. (The gray marble mantle is from a French Chateau). A few weeks ago I did a couple of posts about Spindletop Hall, the former mansion of oil heiress...
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Does Historic Preservation Have An Image Problem?
In this economic climate, there is one word on everyone’s lips: jobs. So it’s no surprise that the University of Kentucky’s 7th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium hosted by the school’s historic...
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June 6, 1944
I had planned to post a re-cap of last evening’s BGT deTour today, but then I received a really special e-mail. It was written by a gentleman who would have been about 14 years old 69 years ago....
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Preservation Is…
Architecture has been called the art of building beautifully, a fixation of man’s thinking, and record of his activity… Keep in mind that last phrase. It is important. -Ernst Johnson, architect,...
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