Winkworth
Winkworth or Boxhill is a residential building in Georgian architecture in Glenview , a small town east of Louisville , Kentucky in the United States . Boxhill was built in 1910 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 1983 as a listed building .
Like many other nearby country estates - Lincliff , for example - Boxhill reflects the pre-20th century period in Louisville history when wealthy Louisville estates built showcase on the banks of the Ohio River east of downtown Louisville . 29 buildings of these country estates have been preserved; they form the largest such collection on the 1,578 km long river and are among the best preserved ensembles of structures from this period in the United States.
description
Boxhill is a two-story brick house with a gable roof , internal chimneys and a facade with five bays . The portico has a triangular gable triangle, an elliptical lunette and is supported by columns of Ionic order arranged in pairs . There are small windows to the side of the entrance.
The house was changed in 1956. The project was created by the Louisville architect Stratton Hammon. Hammon added a cast iron balcony. Hammon added a second floor to the originally only one-story wing on the western side of the main wing. He made sure to use the materials and shapes of the original building. The house is on a cliff above the Ohio River. The driveway to the house is a narrow tree-lined driveway that curves up from River Road and ends at an esplanade with two parallel driveways .
history
The original builder of the property, then called Winkworth , was William E. Chess. He acquired the 75 acre property in 1906 . Construction of the house was completed in 1910, and in 1917 he donated the property to his daughter Mary Grace Chess Robinson. This was Avery Robinson, the vice president of a rope factory . Mrs. Robinson later founded the Mary Chess Perfume and Cosmetics Company in New York City in the 1930s. The Robinsons lived in the house until 1923. Then they moved to London and later to New York City. They sold the house to Henning Chambers, a New York City securities dealer.
In the 1950s the property was divided. Traces of the once extensive gardens, terraces and stone walls are still visible. It is believed that the gardens and tree-lined driveway were designed by Bryant Fleming , a landscape architect from Buffalo , New York . He had planned a home on Upper River Road in 1911, and landscaping of other properties nearby was attributed to him.
The later owners of the property, Robert and Shirley Alexander, were killed in Boxhill in 1977 by their stepson. Schizophrenia was diagnosed and the perpetrator was found incapable of standing. Because the property was the scene of a bloody act, the bank that came into possession of the property was unable to sell it for three years. Building contractor Helen Combs bought it in 1980 for $ 355,000 and renovated it. Combs intended to live in the house itself, but her husband, Bert T. Combs , the former governor of Kentucky, was not enthusiastic about the idea and called the property a "murder house". Combs sold the house in 1982.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Winkworth NRHP Inventory Form ( English , PDF; 232 kB) National Register of Historic Places . August 16, 1983. Retrieved February 20, 2009.
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed June 12, 2016
- ↑ Walfoort, Nina: Estate Pursues district historic designation (English) , The Courier-Journal . February 1, 1999, p. 1A.
- ↑ a b Walfoort, Nina: Woman saves stately homes (English) , The Courier-Journal . March 1, 1999, p. 1A.
Coordinates: 38 ° 18 ′ 5 " N , 85 ° 39 ′ 28" W.