Farmington Historic Home

3033 Bardstown Road
Louisville, KY, 40205
502-452-9920

URL : http://www.historichomes.org/fmframe.htm

overview : Farmington is a 14-room Federal-style home that was the center of the 19th-century hemp plantation of John and Lucy Speed. Designed from a plan by Thomas Jefferson and completed in 1816 using slave labor, the house is newly retored with original paint colors, historic wallpaper and carpets, and furnished with Kentucky furniture and other antiques from the period. - A summer kitchen, springhouse, stone barn, and a recreated early 19th-century garden are located on the present 18-acre grounds. Abraham Lincoln, a close friend of Speed's son Joshua, spent about three weeks at Farmington in 1841.

topics : historic homes