This was a rotunda with an oculus in the middle of it. The oculus was several feet wide. The room is completely circular. Even the woodwork is steamed into place to fit in a circular room. The dome is mostly gone now. We have various remnants of it in storage. It was plastered, painted skyblue to imitate to the outdoor sky. And the oculus gave early appearance of having leaked quite a bit. The interior was the interior of the dome was painted skyblue. The walls, there is some evidence they were painted a dusty rose or almost a pink. What we have here is the beginning of several surprises on this floor. There is an arched statuary niche. You would have put a marble or plaster statue you to add to the scene. There was an added niche on the side but it appears to have originally held an iron heating stove. Then we enter the two main living areas of the house, the dining room and the parlor. The big surprise here, these rooms with gigantic 14foot ceilings and twin curved walls that butted into each other, and a single door that could go from the dining room into the parlor. These two rooms also had a complete plaster cornice, most of which has fallen away but we still have ample evidence to reproduce it. We have here some remnants of an original 1812 wallpaper. It is called rocky road. It has been reproduced. All of our wallpaper samples have been preserved and catalog. They are in storage at the university of kentucky. With fully documented everything we fully documented everything we could find. 1812 federal houses had quite a bit of woodwork. They were richly decorated with wallpaper and vibrant paint. These are pieces of what we think are part of an original 1812 mental. They have great hand endowed gouge work. These are all wooden pieces. Vary likely, the original mantels in these two great rooms here in the front of the house contained Something Like this 1812 wooden mantel with this rich hand carving. The marble planter and marble or the marble mantle you see is part of the 1940s remodeling. They are now quite old. Our philosophy has been all along that we not replace Something Like this unless we have good evidence of what was originally here. There is an awful lot of prep work, a lot of documentary evidence. We have one of the largest Historic Structures reports that has ever been created for an american property. Nothing certainly like the white house or the capitol, but for domestic building, we probably have the most complex and complete domestic structures, Historic Structures report on record. We think we are talking to some potential tenants who might be able to rehab some of the rooms and use them as office space while maintaining the three big important architectural rooms for people to continue to view. This house is important for the bluegrass trust because of latrobes influence on american architecture. Its historic importance, senator pope was one of the first senators from the state of kentucky. He and his wife were vary influential in washington politics. We think a National Importance as well as state importance. Announcer all we can long, American History tv showcasing lexington , kentucky. We continue now with our look at the history of lexington. The hunt morgan houses and 1813 federal house built by wesley hunt. The hunt morgan house is important to lexingtons history because the stories that it tells both locally but also on a national level. John wesley hunt was particularly important to early lexington, but another character is kind of a broader narrative a more regional narrative, and that being the civil war. Your third character is important internationally. He is the father of modern genetics. You are able to tell a complex story of both lexington and then the way that the city sits in a more national and international narrative. John wesley hunt is referred to as the first millionaire west of the allegheny mountains. He came here in the late 1700s and made a lot of money in hand and other ventures. He had a brother living here already from the late 1700s until the mid1800s. It was a real Cultural Center for the united states, a place for a lot of opportunity. John wesley hunt bought the land that the house sits on in 1810 for 10,000. It is an urban lot. It has always been an urban lot. It was finished in 1814. It was originally called hopemont. It has a doorway with a palladium style window. It goes down to a false chimney. One of the things you will notice is a lot of symmetry. There is a bunch of similarities between rooms as you go through. A number of the pieces are representative of early kentucky furniture. Weve got a number of pieces that were built and neither lexington or frankfort kentucky. We have an early Cherry Corner covered and then a sideboard that is solid cherry that covered with a walnut veneer. One great lens to look at John Wesley Hunt through is the time that he lived in in kentucky, lexington. He lived here from the late from the early 1800s to 1817. It is a place where there is a lot of cultural activity going on. So he is here working in hand working to drive the economy or word. Working in hemp, working to drive the economy forward. Money was printed locally. The further that money got away from where it was rented, the less it was worth. If you had a five dollar from where it was printed, the less it was worth. If you had a five dollar bill and you went to cincinnati, it would not be worth as much. So he would go to cincinnati and purchase the five dollar bill for 2. 50 and have it shipped to back to lexington. So he is getting a five dollar bill for three dollars. Something to give you an insight into who he was, his web catherine was a vary beautiful lady. They had six children, they had 12 children, six boys and six girls. Many lived into older age. Charles charlton becomes a first mayor here. Henrietta took over the house in the 1890s. And francis becomes a productive businessman here in town. The mission of the bluegrass trust is to share his history here as with another with a number of characters. Jon huntsman morgan was the son of henrietta hunt morgan who inherited the house from John Wesley Hunt. He is famous for inventing the longdistance raid. He was known as they thunderbolt of the confederacy to the south. He was born in huntsville, alabama. His father was calvin morgan. He lived there until the age of five and then moved to lexington and a lived in a farmhouse on the edge of town that is Still Standing today. John hunt morgan is associated with this house because his mother owned it from 1849 until 1891. He was a big character in town even in the time that he worked in the hemp industry. He was a hemp farmer until the wards the war started your. He is in his late 30s at that time, relatively old for the group that is fighting touring the war. Fighting during the war. You read in certain diaries that he is coming to visit and the girls were really excited that John Hunt Morgan was coming to town. He takes the war as far north as it goes and then is regularly rating different towns. There are stories of him being benevolent, paying for goods that he is acquiring from farmers in small towns. The bestknown story about John Hunt Morgan is one late night he is escaping from Union Soldiers and decides that he is going to ride to his mothers house and comes through the front doors picture up, gives her a kiss, and then writes his horse out through the back door. The character that he was in the bravado he brought really it has created a myth out of this story which is one of the most beloved in central kentucky. He was killed in 1864 in greenville, tennessee. The story is that he was staying in town and a unions of a pfizer told a group of the a union sympathizer told a group of soldiers and he was shot and killed. His legacy in lexington is interesting. It is pretty romanticized these days. There is a statue of him on horseback on main street. That money came from the united daughters of the confederacy. Everybody knows his name. Most people think this was his house even though it was not. They third person that the house is known for is dr. Thomas hunt morgan, who is kentuckys first nobel prize winner, the father of modern genetics. He was born in hunt morgan house in 1856 and grew up in the house to the rear of the hunt morgan house. Thomas on morgan would always be interest Thomas Hunt Morgan would always be interested in biology. He kept his boat collection in the attic of his childhood home. A lot of his work is done on the fruit fly. There is a famous fly room and Columbia University where he studied flies as his model. Thomas hunt morgan was able to hunt mendels theory that able to prove mendels dairy thattheory that traits were passed along. He wins the nobel prize in 1833 in physiology for his work in genetics. He tells them that he is too busy and does not show up until 1840 to get it. He was working at caltech. He actually begins the Biology Program at caltech. Thomas hunt morgan is internationally known for his work in genetics. Signs genetics is going to know about Thomas Hunt Morgan. In lexington, he is not vary wellknown. 2016 will be the 150th birth a pair so there is a movement to recognize Thomas Hunt Morgan a little bit more. One of the reasons that preservation of the house museum is important in lexington is best illustrated by this house. When it wasnt saved, it kick started a movement to medical reserve houses. The bluegrass trust begins. As early as 1958, the city establishes a local history district. So 15 historic districts in lexington, all of which are in the city and provide that historic character that lexington is known for. Announcer all weekend, American History tv is featuring lexington, a. Lexington, kentucky. Learn more about lexington all weekend here on American History tv. View are in what we call the best spot in the whole world right here in the middle of the race course, keeneland race track. We are not only a great race course with historic settings and a wonderful spot in the country, but the worlds thirdlargest or bread marketplace. Largest thirdlargest thoroughbred marketplace. They run and race all over the world. Our Sales Company started here in 1843, a few years after they racetrack opened in 1936. Most of the local horsemen worshiping their horses to saratoga to be sold. With the rail shortage, they were not able to ship their horses. It was set up as a trust week as they didnt want a dividend paying corporations. They did not want to feel like they had to raise money because they wanted to stay true to the purpose. In a lot of ways, we are more of a park and arboretum than a racetrack as we only raced 32 days a year but we are open 360. It is a great spectacle for people to come see and visit. Lexington is uniquely situated. Our topography is great for horses. The limestone we have underneath is the same thing that makes our urban great and makes us raise great horses. The calcium deposits help build strong bones for the horses. You need strong bones and the strong background in horses love the seasons. Kentucky is vary much known for its varying seasons with the winter and the hot summers and everything. So horses really enjoy the seasons. It helps with their breeding patterns. It helps with their raising patterns. The competition within our industries vary unique. Photos competition in having the best horses and the best stallions. But there are various industries. Everyone understands, when one farm is doing well other arms tend to do well as well. So people will only breed to about 150 mayors a year. So there is plenty 150 mares a year. So there is plenty of stallions. Everyone wants the best horse, but everybody is really happy when somebody does well. One of the things that makes this business unique my background is in politics. One of the Biggest Surprise for me moving over to the horse business was in politics is the only time people are happier when somebody is failing. In the horse business, everybodys happy when somebody elses happy. We have a oneweek sailing january. We have a twoweek yearling sale in september. And then another 4000 horses in november that are part of our november breeding stock sale, horses that are all ages basically. Some weanling horses that are nine months old and some mares that are 12 to 15 years old that are still in production. The peak that we have ever sold is 790 million in a single year. We average it hundred thousand horses that we saw on the ground. We have all these oneyearold horses that youre hoping in a oneyear span will be running an safe and sound for the kentucky derby. And then you have the mare sale which is like the freeagent market. Somebodies wanting to sign them so they can continue as well. All of our money goes back into our facility and back into the community or back into the industry. We do three industry initiatives but also through the partners that we offer here at their resort race course. We were a forprofit institution because gaming could not be nonprofit. In most auction houses, they charge the seller and the they have a fires premium. We charge of the seller of the horse and cover the overhead. We print the catalogues and the pedigree shes for them. We allow them to try to get buyers from overseas and open up new and emerging markets. Everything we do here we trackback into the business. The Economic Impact locally is extremely significant. Keeneland, just in lexington, is about 600 million a year. Between our auctions and the amount of money we generate from people coming out of town eating at our restaurants, staying in our hotels, when you actor that about 30 when you factor that is about 32 days of racing, that is a lot. About 35 days worth of sales that go on, you have people coming and staying that entirely for time. You have people who live in the community. Our customers want nice restaurants and nice hotels. So the impact we half is phenomenal. We have 214 fulltime employees. Venturing the race, we have about 2000. We own our own Catering Company as well so we have our own food and hospitality here at keeneland. So the 214, the bulk of them are maintenance and security. It is a unique entity. We rely a lot on the computer did the community and are parttime employees. We