Oxmoor Farm
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Oxmoor
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Front of the house
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| Location | Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Built | 1787 |
| Architect | Unknown |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Federal |
| NRHP Reference # | 76000907 |
| Added to NRHP | July 13, 1976 |
Coordinates: 38°14′19″N 85°36′33″W / 38.23861°N 85.60917°W
Oxmoor Farm is an estate in Louisville, Kentucky located 8 miles (13 km) east of downtown.
Oxmoor was surveyed in 1774 and was the home of Sturgis Station fort by 1780, when it was granted to Col. William Christian. Alexander Scott Bullitt married Christian's daughter in 1786 and Christian gave the 2,000-acre (810 ha) farm to them as a wedding present. Christian was killed by Native Americans later that year.
Alexander Bullitt purchased an adjoining 1,000 acres (400 ha) in 1787 to expand the farm and named it Oxmoor after the fictional farm in Tristram Shandy, with a new house being completed in 1791, a year before Kentucky separated from Virginia to become a separate state. Alexander Bullitt became Kentucky's first Lieutenant Governor in 1800 and Bullitt County, Kentucky is named in his honor. Alexander Bullitt died in 1816 and willed the farm to his youngest son William. William Bullitt expanded the farmhouse in the late 1820s, but closed the house in 1863 and rented out the farmlands due to the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation. William Bullitt died in 1877 and his wife died in 1879, and the farm was divided between their children.
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