News From 724 Center Street

The History of Henderson County, Kentucky was still on my desk this morning. I decided to flip through the 1000+ pages and discovered there ...

Frieda Dannheiser and Don Hazelwood's "History of Henderson County , KY" from 1888 to 1978 in 1980 provides additional hist...

Frieda Dannheiser and Don Hazelwood printed a lengthy "History of Henderson County , KY" from 1888 to 1978 in 1980.  Chapter XVI...

We had nearly 50 aunts, uncles and cousins for  lunch on Easter at our home this year. It was a wonderful day. The weather was perfect. Havi...

We spent nearly a year planning the renovation and addition for the house. The plans that Tim did are amazing. The kitchen that Suzi designe...

We bought the house, sight unseen, when we first moved back to Henderson in 1998. Even though my husband had never seen the house painted p...

I think we finally have a kitchen design that both Horace and I are comfortable with. Suzi has been great about updating the drawings. the n...

This is the stove that we plan on putting in the new kitchen. It is simply amazing. After doing a considerable amount of research this may...

It's hard to imagine all the changes this old house has seen. Just in the 12 years we've owned it there has been a lot of updates....

Mitch Hazelwood from Hazelwood's Appraisal Company came by to look at the house and the plans. He was extremely nice and very interested...

We met with Tim Townsend today. He had the drawings printed on large architect paper. The project is beginning to feel real. It's ...

Horace and I were in Washington DC touring a post revolutionary war mansion when we got the word that Planning and Zoning had approved our v...

I called Dennie Branson today and like him immediately. I learned that he used to own an Italianate house up the street next to the f...

Suzi's second option reduces the number of cabinets by doing more drywall.  The cabinets go to 9'-9" and then a large crown tre...

Suzi's first option takes the cabinets to the ceiling.  It has a 60" Aga range, separate refrigerator & freezer units, a wine ...

Suzi has been on vacation. She told me up front she wouldn't be able to start until she got back, but I was so anxious for the first dra...

The final plan for P&Z Tim instinctively knew that the simple expansion wasn't going to give us enough room for everything Horac...

American Italianate homes were loosely modeled after the villas of Italy. The design is defined more by the ornamentation than by the stru...

So Tim says upfront I am not an interior designer. He says that you can call a custom cabinet shop and they will help you lay out a kitchen....

Horace and I had spent enough time dreaming about a new kitchen that we felt like we could do it ourselves. But we had never done a projec...

Owning an old home is great, that is if you like always having a project. And in a home that is over 160 years old there is usually more th...

Our Italianate home was built during the civil war. It was a wedding present to John Y. Brown and his wife Rebecca from her father, the then...

We bought this big, old house in 1998 sight unseen. We were moving from Paducah to Henderson. We rented our home in Paducah to a plant manag...