Beside the Barren River on a hill, Atwood and Juliette Hobson built a prominent Italianate house at Hobson Grove that was begun before the Civil War and not finished until 1872 because of the conflict. Riverview Farm prospered under Atwood Hobson, a banker and former Circuit Court Clerk who bred, trained, and sold thoroughbred horses, imported horticultural specimens from other states, and drilled for natural gas on his property. After his death, his children remained active in Bowling Green social life, and Hobson's Grove hosted the circus when it arrived by rail in the early 1900s, inspiring young George Anna to have a trapeze placed in the house's cupola. Family life centered on athletics and the outdoors, with swimming and boating on the river and trap shooting as a favorite activity among the children. Granddaughter George Anna won the Women's Amateur Clay Target Championship of North America in 1924 at age sixteen, and the youngest son, George, became a champion ice skater while attending business school in New York. Over time the house deteriorated, and after fires damaged the interior and made it unsafe to occupy, the city purchased it in 1965 and worked with the Hobson House Association to preserve it and interpret the family's history.