Realtor.com reports that on May 22, 2020, an abandoned castle in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, which had been on and off the market for a number of years before eventually facing foreclosure, sold for $78,101. The home became pending in less than a week after being advertised for $49,500 in mid-April.
The initial post we made on Facebook:
Located at 712 E. LEXINGTON RD., Harrodsburg, KY. 10,500 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and 2.96 acres; foreclosure.
$48,500. The pricing is accurate, yes! Constructed in 1890!
From the website of Bluegrass Team Realty: Colonel Daniel Lawson Moore erected the magnificent Romanesque Revival home at Mooreland, an estate at the east city boundaries of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, for his second wife, Miss Minnie Ball of Woodford County, whom he married in 1891.
The mansion is the biggest in Mercer County and Central Kentucky’s most elegant example of a Romanesque Revival structure. The construction took five years. It is uncertain who designed the building. The residence’s architectural excellence is on par with that of the Theophilus Conrad home at St. James Court in Louisville, which was designed by C.J. Clark and Arthur Loomis and constructed in the middle of the 1890s. It is regarded as the best example of its sort in that city.
The Mooreland home is made completely of stone on the front, with a structure composed of limestone and brick. Pink mortar is used to gently lay each block after it has been tooled with a bush hammer or ribbed. Large semicircular arches supported by short, round polished granite pillars with intricately carved limestone capitals adorn the façade. The veranda bends into octagonal shapes at both ends, with a four-story tower with a parapet and entablature above at the south extremity.
Todd Hyatt
Disponett Real Estate Lois Ann
(502) 839-7409
View the pictures of the house taken today and the ones at the end showing the house occupied.
Kindly distribute! Let us find a new life for this fortress!”
Before the bank divided the lot into 2.96 acres to be sold with the main home, the house had more than 40 acres and was listed for more than $1,000,000 in the preceding ten years.
Condition of house at time of sale:
Condition of House in around 2010:
