BROWN-PUSEY HOUSE

ELIZABETHTOWN, KY

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The Brown-Pusey House is a historic building located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The house was built in 1825 by John Y. Hill, a wealthy businessman in the area. The house was later sold to John Brown, a prominent lawyer and politician, who lived in the house until his death in 1852. After Brown's death, the house was sold to the Pusey family, who lived in the house until 1929.

The Brown-Pusey House is a two-story brick building with a Greek Revival style. The house has a symmetrical facade with a central entrance that is flanked by two large columns. The house has a total of six rooms on the first floor, including a formal parlor, library, and dining room. The second floor has four bedrooms, including a master suite.

In 1976, the Brown-Pusey House was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the house serves as a museum and cultural center, featuring exhibits on the history of Elizabethtown and the surrounding area. The house is also used for community events, including weddings and other special occasions. Visitors can tour the house and learn about the history of the area, including the Civil War and the Underground Railroad.

BROWN-PUSEY HOUSE is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in ELIZABETHTOWN KY. US MID #8402100251

The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia).

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Ranger, there's a lawn on your big tree house roof This building of local wood that looks sort of like a tree house is U.S. Green Building Council LEED Platinum Certified, a rarity in Kentucky. The garden on the roof and vines hanging down the walls insulates the Bernheim Forest and Arboretum Visitors Center to keep it cool in the hot summer and warm in the cold winter.

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Trappist Monks of the Abbey of Gethsemani Prayer recitals at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani near New Haven, Kentucky

Trappist monks recite noon prayers <b>Kentucky's freedom of religion and deep religious tolerance</b>

Founded in 1848, this Catholic monastery, the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, is not only the first abbey of Trappist monks in Kentucky but also in America. Its first monks immigrated from Europe to found the abbey. It sits alone, surrounded by woodland, hills, and farms in Nelson County, Kentucky.

Why did Kentucky historian Thomas Clark put Nelson County's Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani as one of the state's top eleven treasures for Kentuckians to visit? Whether one is Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, Taoist, Zoroastrian, atheist, agnostic, or something entirely else, Dr. Clark felt that all Kentuckians should visit and be familiar with the abbey in order to more deeply appreciate their state. But why?

One guide answered me that it is because this ground is such a holy place. I understand that Catholic believers would visit this site for that reason and would feel that slice of heaven here in Kentucky. But for the rest of us, is the answer that this place shows Kentucky's early and deep commitment to freedom of religion?!? Or maybe the answer is as simple as to have each Kentuckian appreciate its history of when there was a large influx of Catholic immigrants to the Bluegrass State. I don't know.

I do know that the 1850s were the heyday for the Know Nothing Party in Kentucky, whose members thought Catholics were conspiring to overturn the U.S. government and to follow the Pope. During all of that, the foreign Trappists were welcome to immigrate, settle, and establish a monastery in Central Kentucky. The monastery thrived while the Know Nothing Party faded into oblivion.

The book Dr. Thomas Clark's Kentucky Treasures points out why Nelson County seemed like a good place for the immigrating Trappists, especially after an initial attempt at an abbey in Marion County in 1804 did not succeed. But their second attempt looked solid. &quot;Their chances for success seemed good. Nelson County already was a center of Roman Catholic settlement, the nation's first inland Catholic diocese having been established at Bardstown in 1808. Indeed, the Abbey of Gethsemani has flourished since its founding.&quot;

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BROWN-PUSEY HOUSE
128 CS-1320
ELIZABETHTOWN
KY
42701

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MID #	8402100251
Name	BROWN-PUSEY HOUSE
Alternate Name	BROWN-PUSEY HOUSE
Classification	Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Southeastern
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)	610449610
NTEECC	A54
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)	201212
INCOME	111,602
REVENUE	0
LAT/LONG	37.707857, -85.856577
CODES	FIPS State Code: 21 FIPS County Code: 093 US Census Tract: 001402 US Census Block: 2000