Lincliff facts for kids
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Lincliff
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Gates at the end of the drive
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 Location in Kentucky
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| Location | 6100 Longview Lane, Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Area | 29.5 acres (11.9 ha) |
| Built | 1911 |
| Architect | Kenneth McDonald; William J. Dodd |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival |
| MPS | Jefferson County MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 83002694 |
| Added to NRHP | August 16, 1983 |
Lincliff is a beautiful old house located in Glenview, which is part of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. This large home was built in the early 1910s by William Richardson Belknap and is designed in the Georgian Revival style.
Discovering Lincliff's Past
Lincliff was built between 1911 and 1912 for a man named William Richardson Belknap. He was the president of the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company. At that time, his company was one of the biggest wholesale hardware businesses in the United States. Even though the hardware company, started by Belknap's father, William Burke Belknap, doesn't exist anymore, some of its old buildings are now used for other things.
The William Richardson Belknap family was very active in helping the community. They supported many important civic, cultural, and charity events in Louisville. Lincliff was the childhood home for several of their children, including Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey, who became a genealogist (someone who studies family histories). It was also home to William Burke Belknap, who bred horses at Land O' Goshen Farms. The Belknap family sold the Lincliff estate in 1922.
Who Lived at Lincliff Next?
In 1945, the C. Edwin Gheens family bought Lincliff. Mr. Gheens owned a company called Bradas and Gheens Candy Company. After he passed away, his wife, who later became Mrs. Richard H. Hill, lived at Lincliff until she died in 1982. She was also very involved in many community and charity projects.
Since the year 2000, Lincliff has been one of the main homes of the famous writer Sue Grafton and her husband, Steven F. Humphrey. Sue Grafton was born in Kentucky. She thought she had left Kentucky for California, but then her husband found Lincliff. She described it as a "crumbling estate begging to be saved." Her husband, Steven F. Humphrey, has been the main person working to restore the estate. He has done a lot of the work himself, bringing many parts of the garden back to how they originally looked.
Becoming a Historic Place
In 1983, Lincliff was officially added to the National Register of Historic Places. This is a list of important buildings, sites, and objects in the United States that are worth preserving. Lincliff was recorded in 1911 as a property and home covering about 29.6 acres. It is located on Louisville's River Road, right along the Ohio River.
