Mayo Mansion, also known as Fetter Mansion, is a historic mansion located in the Bath Avenue Historic District in downtown Ashland, Kentucky.[1]
Mayo Mansion | |
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| Location | 1516 Bath Avenue, Ashland, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 38°28′33″N 82°38′33″W / 38.47583°N 82.64250°W |
| Built | 1864 1917: Significant expansion |
| Architectural style | Beaux-Arts |
| Part of | Bath Avenue Historic District |
| Added to NRHP | July 3, 1979 |
History
editFollowing the death of her husband, John C. C. Mayo, Alice Jane Mayo moved to Florida. In 1916, she met Dr. Samuel P. Fetter of Portsmouth, Ohio, while he was recovering from an illness in Palm Beach, Florida. They married the following year and purchased the Victorian Gartrell-Hager House in Ashland, Kentucky, which was built in 1864.[2] Although Mayo wanted to build a new house, she could not due to rations set in place during World War I. To avoid being arrested for building a new home, she received permission to remodel the existing house. Using the wealth amassed from the Mayo Companies, she rebuilt the entire building, transforming it into a 17,000 sq ft (1,579 m2) Beaux-Arts mansion.[3] Much of the interior, including the tile and marble was taken from her and her first husband's other home, also known as Mayo Mansion, in Paintsville, Kentucky.[4]
A large pool house that was attached to the mansion was demolished in the 1950s. Mayo Mansion was occupied by the Highlands Museum and Discovery Center from 1984 until 1994, when the museum moved into the former C.H. Parsons Department Store Building in the Ashland Commercial Historic District.[5]
References
edit- ^ Bath Avenue Historic District overview Retrieved on 2014-06-17.
- ^ Powers, James C. (1992). John E. Kleber (ed.). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. p. 503. ISBN 0-8131-1772-0. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
- ^ She donated her mansion to the church but then sued to get it back Archived 2014-02-10 at the Wayback Machine Appalachian History. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
- ^ "Eyesore of a Mansion Restored to Grandeur". The Daily News. July 30, 1995. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
- ^ A Brief History Archived 2010-07-10 at the Wayback Machine Highlands Museum and Discovery Center. Retrieved on 2014-06-14.