This house is a little piece of significant history within the city of downtown Lexington. Some of you may know about it already, but this Georgian style house was originally built to serve as an inn, but it was then purchased by the family of Mary Todd, the soon to be husband of the famous American president Abraham Lincoln. The house itself is very peculiar and has its own bits of history added in the mix as well. Construction on the house began around 1803 and was finished around 1806. It ended up serving many purposes, one being a brothel. An interesting fact about the house is that Belle Brezing was working lady at the brothel and eventually she became a nationally known madam. The unusual history about this story is the fact that Belle Brezing inspired author Margaret Mitchell's character Belle Watling in the American classic "Gone with the Wind." Abraham Lincoln himself stepped foot in this very house, along with his children. It is one piece of preserved land in downtown Lexington that gives the city a hint of classic American history to its now modernized community.
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