Mayo Mansion is a historic house located on 405 Third Street in Paintsville, Kentucky. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, 1974 as John C.C. Mayo Mansion and Office . This Mansion is currently occupied by Our Lady the Mountains School.
Mayo Mansion was built for American businessman John C. C. Mayo. Herman Geisky served as the main architect during construction.
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History
In 1905, Mayo began developing a plan to build a new plantation in Paintsville. Initially Mayo intends to build a house with about twenty rooms. However, after visiting several other luxury homes in Central Kentucky, he decided to build a much larger house. After recruiting architect Herman Geisky and more than a hundred masons from Cincinnati, construction began in 1905.
Due to the undeveloped state of Paintsville at the time, there were many challenges during construction. Before the foundation can be built, the soil should be dried and filled. Paintsville has not yet built a public water system so that private systems are developed on plantations that pump water from wells into water tanks. Rain water is also taken from the roof and flowed into the reservoir. The water collected can then be pumped into the mansion. At the beginning of house construction, Paintsville has also not received electricity service. Because of this, the initial plan calls for the use of carbide gas to provide lighting. However, during construction, the electric transmission lines connecting Paintsville to the electrical grid and the carbide gas system were never installed.
The sandstone used in the construction of the outer part of the house was cut and shaped in the Thomas Jefferson Mayo field (John Mayo father) located opposite Paint Creek. The sandstone blocks were then transported across the valley from his father's farm to the construction site with an overhead tram 3/4 mile long. After each stone column was formed, it was transported as three individual parts using the ox team. The oxen team should then draw individual segments of the column through Paint Creek during the dry season to the mansion. In December 1912, after the cost of $ 250,000 ($ 6.34 million in 2017 dollars), the three-story house, the forty-three rooms were complete.
Mayo died on May 11, 1914. Three years after his death, his wife, Alice Jane Mayo, and two children moved to Ashland, Kentucky for the isolation of the area. Much of the interior of the house, including marble, tiles, and furniture, was brought to Ashland where the family built a new house. The land was sold to the Sandy Valley Seminary, named John C. C. Mayo College. After the campus was closed due to financial difficulties in 1936, property and estate was given back to Alice. The estate is then sold to E. J. Evans, who is a friend and employee of her husband. In 1945, Evans sold the house and property to His Excellency William T. Mulloy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Covington diocese, Kentucky at the time. In October of that same year the Providence Sisters of Providence of Melbourne, Kentucky established the School of Our Lady of the Mountains, which still occupies the building today.
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References
External links
- Paintsville Tours
- Our Lady of the Mountains School
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