Pope Villa

Historical marker location:

Lexington, Kentucky

( 326 Grosvenor Ave., Lexington)

Built for Senator John and Eliza Pope. Designed by B.H. Latrobe (1764-1820), father of American architectural profession and designer to Thomas Jefferson. The Pope Villa has hidden first-story services, with rotunda and major rooms on second story. Latrobe’s most innovative surviving house. Restoration after a fire in 1987.

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