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Waveland State Historic Site

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Waveland State Historic Site

225 Waveland Museum Ln, Lexington, KY 40515

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About this landmark

Greek Revival mansion built about 1844-48 by Joseph Bryan, grandnephew of Daniel Boone, on a hemp and tobacco plantation worked by enslaved people. Its doorway copies one at the Erechtheion in Athens. Now a Kentucky state historic site with outbuildings, on 10 acres.

Waveland State Historic Site

225 Waveland Museum Ln, Lexington, KY 40515

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Details

Year Built: 1845
Style: Greek Revival
Period: Antebellum
Era: 1845

National Register of Historic Places. Reference: 71000342

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