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Fonthill, KY: A wonderful and peaceful place to reside An owner of historic house relates labor of love restoring 153+ year old house A happy resident of history-rich Fonthill, KYI enjoyed the "Fonthill" article very much!!! My husband, daughter, and I live in the 153+ year old house that is located right across the street from the old store. We purchased it from H.M. Smith, Jr. 17 years ago. We've done lots of remodeling and not finished yet. There is lots of history in our old house and we just love it! The house has gone through several remodeling phases. In the 1950's somebody tried to make the house look more "modern" by taking the dormers off of the second level and taking out the window seat on the first level and numerous other things. Then someone rented it for a while in the 70''s and placed carpet over the natural solid oak hardwood floors. Not to mention the solid oak staircase had 9 coats of paint on it!!!!! Also, they had torn the wrap around porch off of the front. When we purchased it in 1990, we stripped the staircase down to the wood. We pulled all of the carpet up, stripped the floors, added the dormers, added the window seat back in, and added the front porch back on and many, many, more things. I desired for the house to be as close to its original look as we could get it. My mom and dad has told so many stories to me about when they were small children. They would come to the old store and the mill (on horse and buggy) and purchase numerous supplies as just as everybody in community did. Also, there was a Whippet car dealership located just about where our garage is today. David Smith, a local Attorney in Russell Springs, was born in our house. Isn't that neat? And no, nobody has died in it - thank goodness!!Well I guess I better wrap this up. I just thought you might be interested in some additional history at Fonthill.It's a wonderful and peaceful place to reside. Again, I enjoyed the story and the pictures. Have a great day! To read the story and see a photo of the Fonthill store, Click Here. This story was posted on 2007-03-23 10:03:42
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