Senator Pope Mansion by gkitzmil
While in Lexington, KY I visited the restoration of this historic home. It is very much in the restoration process. You cannot see a home, just a shell. In 1810-11, architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe designed for Senator John and Eliza Pope an exceptional suburban villa at Lexington, Kentucky. They mostly used this home for entertaining when visiting Lexington as they lived in Washington, DC. The Pope Villa is Latrobe's best surviving domestic design. Its plan is unique in American residential architecture: a perfect square, with a domed, circular rotunda in the center of the second story. The most talented designer of the new republic, Latrobe developed an American neoclassical architecture of elegantly austere exteriors which contained interiors rich in variety and event.
