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 house 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 entirely of stone on the front, with a structure composed of limestone and brick. Pink mortar is used to carefully lay each block after it has been tooled with a bush hammer or ribbed. Large semicircular arches supported by short, circular polished granite pillars with intricately carved limestone capitals adorn the façade. The veranda curves into octagonal shapes at both ends, with a four-story tower with a parapet and entablature atop at the south extremity.
Please feel free to share these images of the mansion taken today, as well as the ones showing its former splendor, at the end! Let’s give this fortress a fresh start!
