File:Historic American Buildings Survey Lester Jones, Photographer May 31, 1940 PORCH DETAIL FROM NORTH - Ingelside, Gibson Avenue, Lexington, Fayette County, KY HABS KY,34-LEX,6-5.tif

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Historic American Buildings Survey Lester Jones, Photographer May 31, 1940 PORCH DETAIL FROM NORTH - Ingelside, Gibson Avenue, Lexington, Fayette County, KY
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Historic American Buildings Survey Lester Jones, Photographer May 31, 1940 PORCH DETAIL FROM NORTH - Ingelside, Gibson Avenue, Lexington, Fayette County, KY
Description
Bruen, Joseph; McMurty, John
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,6-5
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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: Year of erection: "For more than 10 years the work went on, until in 1852 the house was completed at a cost of twenty-nine thousand dollars..." Built for (first owner): Joseph Bruen. Architect or designer: John McMurtry. Built by: "In the great kiln on the back of the place bricks were fired; timber was cut from the woodland for the heavy walnut doors and interior woodwork; stone was quarried nearby for the walls of the seven foot cellar under the entire house, while the window sills, cornices and spires were fashioned of iron in the Bruen foundry." Original intended use: Residence.
  • Survey number: HABS KY-57
  • Building/structure dates: 1852 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ky0118.photos.070519p
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