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"Cities, Towns & Countryside"
4th Annual Preservation Week 2002 Photo-Essay Competition
Third Place: Brandon Lawrence
2nd Grade, Western Elementary
Georgetown, Kentucky
Title: Ward Hall, Georgetown:
Ward Hall is one of the few remaining Greek Revival houses of its kind in Scott County. People worked very hard to build Ward Hall and it cost $50,000 to build in 1856. That was ten times more money than the average house. In the year 2002, if a house costs $200,000 then that would cost $2 million dollars today. The man that built Ward Hall was Junius Ward. That was why it's called Ward Hall.
Ward Hall is a two-story high house. It has neat columns on it that are huge. I wouldn't want to fall off from the top because it is forty feet high. The house has lots of chimneys, a lot more than my house. About forty-nine more chimneys than my house. There is a triangle portico on the front of the house. I like the dentils at the top because it looks like teeth.
The inside of the house has faces of Greek gods and goddesses on the walls. The floors were made from walnut. The 16 feet ceilings are bigger than my house and is about twelve feet above my head. That would be hard to build. There are cupboards and closets on the house, but they look like windows from the outside. They tried to trick you with the blind windows.
The house was sold many times. It was almost the capital of Kentucky. Colonel Milton Hamilton offered the house with 250 acres plus $50,000 to the Kentucky Legislature to adapt the mansion as a capital. The house is now owned by the Jenkins family and Mrs. Jenkins gave me permission to take pictures of it.
I think we should do our best to take care of Ward Hall. If I know of someone trying to tear it down, I would write a letter to ask them to help Ward Hall. If Ward Hall falls down, we can't make another one and it would be extinct. I think it is beautiful and I would like to live in it.
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