Like many turn-of-the-20th-century gems, the Weatherford drifted into disrepair but was saved from demolition by current owner Henry Taylor in 1975. Those wishing to ring in the New Year at the Weatherford and witness the hotel's famous Pinecone Drop should make reservations well in advance....
Home of the celebratedHot Brown Sandwich, Louisville's Georgian Revival gem exudes Southern charm. Built by lumber baron James Graham Brown, The Brown is a perennial favorite with Kentucky Derby enthusiasts and hashosted a star-studded array of guests over the years, including Elizabeth Taylor, Jo...
Home of the celebratedHot Brown Sandwich, Louisville's Georgian Revival gem exudes Southern charm. Built by lumber baron James Graham Brown, The Brown is a perennial favorite with Kentucky Derby enthusiasts and hashosted a star-studded array of guests over the years, including Elizabeth Taylor, Jo...
Home of the celebratedHot Brown Sandwich, Louisville's Georgian Revival gem exudes Southern charm. Built by lumber baron James Graham Brown, The Brown is a perennial favorite with Kentucky Derby enthusiasts and hashosted a star-studded array of guests over the years, including Elizabeth Taylor, Jo...
Interestingly enough, the stone tower was connected by a bridge to the main section of the hotel. This is only visible in some photos (see the above postcard), and you wouldn't catch me crossing that bridge. Townsquare MediaWhat Happened to the Casco Castle Hotel?
Sometimes it's there peeking through the trees, and sometimes it is not. But yes, that is a castle tower.
it wasnamed for benefactor Major Tutwiler of Tutwiler Coal and Cokeand had the distinction of hosting both Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Lindbergh. The original structure was razed in the 1970s and replaced by a bank. In 1986, the hotel re-opened in the former Ridgely Apartments and is now...
Taylor, when his cherished friends cut him because of it; George Eliot proclaimed her own loyalty to it by a life of very quiet but very effective defiance of Mrs. Grundy and all her British matrons, and Herbert Spencer carefully formulated it in his "Autobiography." Perhaps all these ...
I have so many happy memories of entertaining in my apartments in Lexington and the lovely evenings with my friends. Only my friend Shakey could match- and sometime surpass- me. But what’s the point of entertaining if you don’t have a challenge? And we were both Virginia boys so we ...
Thank you to my friend Mike Allen (The Place You Live) for answering stupid last minute questions for me. Thank you Mark Boughton for your quick responses about your father's role in protecting the Old Jail. Thank you Taylor O'Brien for getting me in touch with the right people to ...