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185 17 Side Trip High Street from the Bourbon County Courthouse South to the Juncture of High and Main Streets Beginning at the Bourbon County Courthouse, one may circle back on U.S. 68 by way of southbound High Street. High parallels Main Street and is now a one-way street that is connected to Lexington in the southwest. Mile 0.0 St. Peter’s Episcopal Church stands near the head of High Street across from the back door of the courthouse. It was built about 1833, and the parishioners subsequently enlarged and modified the church in the early 1870s. City officials erected the Paris City Fire Station nearby in 1874–75. Atop the town’s topographic high point and directly across High Street from the courthouse stands Duncan Tavern , a stone structure built in 1788 and now operated as a house museum by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1806 Duncan Tavern, though near the center of Paris, was not a single building but a small grouping of structures that sustained its function as a hostelry and stopover for those traveling via horseback or carriage . The tavern’s supporting buildings included “a good kitchen with a well of water nearby, a garden spot, a good smokehouse, dairy, outhouses and a large stable with a granary adjoining it.”1 Opposite Duncan Tavern is the Deposit Bank of Paris/Memorial Building, built around 1859. The bank offices were located in the building’s corner section. Attached living quarters provided housing for the bank’s cashier or president. In 1922 city officials designated the building a commemorative for Bourbon County casualties of World War I and renamed it the Memorial Building. Mile 0.1 At Fourth Street the Eads Tavern stands on the right. The clapboarded log structure served as Paris’s first post office in 1795 and may have served as an office for Robert Trimble, a distinguished Kentucky jurist. Joseph Walker, publisher of the Western Citizen newspaper (still in operation), also lived here in the 1870s. Paris city 186  The Maysville Road: A Landscape Biography offices occupy the old county hospital, which has been replaced by a new hospital building on the city’s north side. Mile 0.2 The Paris–Bourbon County Public Library stands at Seventh Street, a handsome building designed by the architect Edwin Stamler in 1904 and partially funded by the Carnegie Foundation. Mile 0.3 The Paris Lodge, the second Freemason lodge established in Kentucky , is now housed in a modest brick building whose frontage belies its overall size. The Central Baptist and First Christian Churches stand in tandem. The First Christian Church, built in 1902, is nearly as prominent in size as the courthouse. Its striking octagonal shapes, arched openings, steep rooflines, and complicated spatial arrangement make it one of Paris’s most impressive ecclesiastical buildings. Mile 0.5 The St. Paul United Methodist Church at 1117 High Street is a transitional Greek Revival– and Italianate-style church built in 1876. It continues to serve as an important church for the African American community. Return to the courthouse to rejoin U.S. 68 north. ...

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