Rocky Point Manor, a two-story mansion in…
1810 CE
It is considered a grand home for Kentucky during the settlement period, its grounds spanning about four hundred acres at the time, and stands next to the historic Fort Harrod.
Captain John Haggin (1753—1825), was one of the earliest settlers in Kentucky, with his entrance in the spring of 1775.
A famous "Indian fighter", he was on numerous occasions the hero attacks against pioneer settlements.
Haggin set up a cabin in the place Rocky Point Manor stands today and lived there with his wife and children.
The local Shawnee natives had burnt his cabin down sometime in the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century, and the family had taken refuge in the nearby Fort Harrod.
One of Haggin's sons, James Haggin, has become a prosperous land attorney and circuit judge and, in 1809, had purchased the property in which his father's cabin had once stood and has the manor house built here in early Federal style with some residual Georgian features.
The house is built with a relative lack of concern for expense and labor; due to cost, it is custom at this time to use common bond on the brickwork on the less significant façades and reserve Flemish bond for the main (front) façade—however, in Rocky Point, Flemish bond is used on all four sides.
The woodwork and moldings in the home, attributed respectively to Matthew P. Lowery, the most famous Federal craftsman of the time, and John Rogers, the most famous foreign architect in Kentucky, are also a testament to the costliness of the house.
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