Final Day of Meadowcrest Mansion in Lexington KY on Hamburg Place Farm - Part 1 of 3

Take The Final Tour with Us Before Meadowcrest Mansion in Lexington, KY on the Hamburg Place Farm is forever gone. Tour with Kim Soper, Realtor - Part 1 of 3.

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Hey guys, Kim, Soper, Kim in Kentucky with my buddy Jim Perry, Kim Soper with ExploreLexingtonKY.com and Jim, tell him where we are.

Jim:

We're at the Madden Estate. what year was it built Kim?

Kim:

1929 way before our time.

Jim:

And as you can see behind us, tomorrow's gonna be the last day. Today's Sunday off for super bowl. And they're gonna do a demo on this tomorrow. The owners are currently in Europe and gave me permission to come out here and pilfer around, pick up some wine bottles, and we found some weird looking stuff, looked great in the garden and hate to see it go to the dump. So Kim and I both have quite a bit of nostalgic for these things and I'm bit of a historian for the not only the Madden estates and farms and farms around here. So we're having fun pilfering around just picking up silly stuff. Yeah. So it'll all be smooth over and gone tomorrow.

Kim:

It will. And that tomorrow would be Valentine's day 2022. What a kind of a surreal moment to, you know, Valentine's day is all about love. And Jim and I definitely love this house and we have over the years and you can read one of our blogs when we hung out with Preston and Anita Madden. Now wasn't their house, it was Preston's uncle's house. But we actually hung out with them one night and we were supposed to come over here and just tour the property. But we ended up partying with the Maddens all night long. They could out party us. They could out party us. It made me think I really needed to take vitamins daily because they were such characters in Lexington history. So we'll link those blogs here below, but here at Meadowcrest it's just a surreal moment. You can see the traffic behind us that is on the interstate. And of course, we're right at the cusp of Winchester Road and Polo Club, where Baptist Health is building right over here behind us. So someday this will be restaurants, office space, we don't really know what's going to be on this land, but, go back and look at some of the old history of Meadowcrest and the pictures. They don't build homes like this. We were just talking about this house is 8,000 square feet and it just, you know, they just don't build homes like this anymore. You should see the still beans,

Jim:

Brick walls, bowling alley beneath our feet, it's just phenomenal piece of property that We walked around the pond they just drained with the brick interior of it. It's just, you just don't see these anymore. And a lot of people know me if I've built some estate homes here in Lexington, it's as much fun. Well, more fun to build 'em than tear 'em down. But it's interesting to see the quality of work that goes into bathwall.

Kim:

Beautiful.

Jim:

Beautiful, or be a nice ornament in a garden somewhere.

Kim:

It will. And if you guys are historians like Jim and I, there was some books that came out. Elizabeth Simpson, she was actually a reporter of the Lexington Herald Leader in the 1920s and 1930s. She's got two books on Lexington homes. One's called Bluegrass Homes and Their Traditions. And then also there's one called Enchanted Bluegrass. And so those books will talk about Meadowcret as well as some really cool homes in Lexington. So if you ever find them at a local vintage sale a yard sale, if you find them at a yard sale, you've hit the jackpot definitely pick them up, but I think the public library of copies too. And then you can see some of the old pictures of Meadowcrest where we are today. So Jim,

Jim:

Just show the back of the building or the top.

Kim:

Yeah. So we'll kind of show you guys

Jim:

Cause the funny thing about it, about 10 years ago, I had a ghost chase me out of the attic here. I had a Lexington Fayette county, sheriff Barry Buckinnanny and the ghosts chased us out of the attic. It was most spooky thing I've ever had happen to me here but it's sad. Maybe you'll see somebody looking at us from the building.

Kim:

Definitely. And we'll kind of show you that just standing here on this little rubble pile, so you can see behind us and then up below. So see where Jim showed you that tile that's from that green bathroom. I believe there were four full baths in this house, maybe five, but I think four. And we have seen colors of orange and pink and a lot of green today, but upstairs where Jim was in that attic, it's now gone, but go back and look at some of the old pictures and, and see where Jim had that encounter with the ghost. Also, there was a movie - House of the Witch - that was made here in 2017 and they do show that I believe on the Sci-Fi channel. So look up House of the Witch you can see that too. So that is Meadowcrest in a nutshell, we're just taking in the last days and we appreciate you guys joining us. And we're just Lexingtonians who love our hometown and everything that makes it

Jim:

Special. We love 25 degrees out here and we're doing this. I know I got like permission at 1:00 p.m. and I called Kim and said, let's go because this will all be flat tomorrow.

Kim:

It will. So we're having a good time. We appreciate you guys joining us today.

About the Author: Kim Soper is a lifelong Lexington KY resident and Co-Founder of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Cypress. She has over 18 years experience selling real estate all over Lexington KY and the Central KY areas.  Kim is the manager/Realtor of ExploreLexingtonKY.com - Home to Your Best Source for Lexington KY Real Estate!