A Lexington preservation group is pushing back against a plan by the University of Kentucky to raze a former agricultural building to make way to expand the business school.
In a Facebook post, Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation said the state’s flagship university plans to demolish the C.W. Mathews building at 606 S. Limestone. The building was constructed in 1908.
“In 1907, mechanical engineering professors F. Paul Anderson and Leon Frankel (of the firm Frankel & Curtis) designed this striking Beaux-Arts/Colonial Revival building as one wing of a much larger facility for the Department of Agriculture that was never constructed,“ the Dec. 17 post reads.
The agriculture building was renamed in 1976 to honor Professor Clarence Wentworth Mathews, a former dean and horticulture professor who died in 1928. A Massachusetts native, Mathews constructed a frame Queen Anne at nearby 660 S. Limestone in 1900 and lived there for the remainder of his life, according to the trust…