The Wetherby House

Susan B. Davis of Boston, Massachusetts, purchased the property from Lawrence Young in 1841, and it became the Davis Tavern. Dr. Luther Paris Wetherby, a young surgeon from New York, bought the tavern and married the owner's granddaughter, Hattie Davis Brown, in 1862. The west end served as his medical office, and the rest of the house became the family home. At his death, his five children—Henry Abel (1863), Susie (1865), Luther Paris, Jr. (1867), Samuel Davis (1869), and La Moille (1873)—inherited the property, and it remained in the family for 138 years. In 2000, May Wetherby Jones, his great-granddaughter, and Dr. Luther Wetherby Pearce, his great-grandson, sold the house to the City of Middletown.

Middletown, Kentucky · United States