houses at Lexington, Kentucky, built in the middle of the nineteenth century, and popularly known as "Ingleside," "Loudoun," and "Aylesford." Ingleside is located just beyond the southern limits of Lexington off the Harrodsburg Pike, Loudoun is near the northern boundary in Castlewood Park, while Aylesford although, likewise, originally once a suburban estate is in the midst of a twentieth-century residential district, on the street now called Linden Walk. In the region between the Allegheny Mountains and the Mississippi River, there are numerous fine examples of century-old Greek Revival homes, but few Gothic particularly the castellated type to which belong Ingleside and Loudoun and there are none that can compare to these: the real haunt of such romantic residences being the Hudson River country the connections between these of central Kentucky with those of New York State is the principal interest of this article. For years, the story had been told, and repeatedly printed, that Mr. Joseph Bruen took the architectbuilder, John McMurtry, to England with him to study the Tudor monuments of that country, with the aim of producing a luxurious and authentic manor house here in the Bluegrass for his son-inlaw, Henry Boone Ingels. Mr. McMurtry was said to have paid particular attention to buildings in the vicinity of Warwick Castle; then he returned home to design and erect Ingleside. The whole idea seemed reasonable enough; Mr. Bruen was a wealthy ironfoundryman, McMurtry's family still possess mezzotints of Napoleon that their ancestor had bought in Europe, and the house certainly has medieval details. However, the time element confuses the matter Mr. McMurtry's grand tour took place in 18411 (before the property was even purchased), Mr. Bruen