Spring Station, Lexington Road & Cannon's Lane, Louisville

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Lexington Road and Cannon*?! Lane, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Owner or Ada T. Clark, wife of Goo, L, Clark, custodian; Address: I,.e,io nn;ton Road and Cannon's Lane, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Date built: (approx) Architect Plans are said to have "been ivon to the or builder: original owner, Samuel Beall, (or John Beele) by Thomas Jefferson Present c ond i t i on: Exc e11en t # Number- of Two stories, center part; one story, stories: wings; also basement. lvlateria 1 used Pound^11 on: Brick. in construction: Exterior walls; Brick, Interior partitions: Brick and frame, plastered, Floors: Wood, Basement: concrete. Roof: Frame construction, covered with metal.

Description: This house generally known as "Spring architectural Station", derived its name because it and historical was built near the site of the stockaded fort, or station, known as "spring' Station", which was built in The original log fort was so named because it was built with a stockaded passage leading from the fort to the nearby spring* Several hundred yards to the northwest of this house stand two stone spring houses, which, it is said are on the approximate site of the stockaded fort herein re- ferred to. HA8S ou v\ About two hundred feet in front of the house is the excavated hole from which material wag obtained for making the brick for the house. During the Civil War, for a time, the house was the headquarters for Union soldiers in this vicinity.

Many alterations have been made in the house by the different owners over a period of many years, but the photographs which were taken in this Survey were of details which seemed to be original, possibly with one exception, the stairs. Reference to Spring Station is found in Collins History cf Kentucky, Vol. IT, pages 21 and The Courier- Journal, l.Iaroh 2, carried an article about this historic monument. Other information was obtained from records in possession of the present ov/ner, Ada T. Clark, wife of Geo. M Clark.