Hunt-Morgan House

This 1814 Federal-style home, named Hopemont, retains original architectural features, including a cantilevered staircase and fanlight window. It was saved from demolition by the Blue Grass Trust in 1955. Built by John Wesley Hunt (1773-1849), a philanthropist and the first millionaire west of the Allegheny Mountains, it was later inherited by his daughter, Henrietta Hunt Morgan, mother of Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864), known as the "Thunderbolt of the Confederacy." It was also the birthplace of John Wesley Hunt's great grandson, Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), known as the "Father of Modern Genetics" and the first Kentuckian to win a Nobel Prize (1933).

Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky · United States