Mentelle Park

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Mentelle Park | nrhp_type = | image = Mentelle Park Marker.jpg | caption = Mentelle Park in 2019 | location= Mentelle Pk., Lexington, Kentucky | coordinates = {{coord|38|02|06|N|84|28|48|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Kentucky#USA | architect = Multiple | architecture = Colonial Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, American Foursquare | added = November 27, 1985 | area = {{convert|12|acre}} | refnum = 85002973<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a}}</ref> }} '''Mentelle Park''' in Lexington, Kentucky, is a boulevard district of the Mentelle neighborhood. The district includes 48 residential structures facing Mentelle Park between Richmond Road and Cramer Avenue. Entrances to Mentelle Park at Richmond Road and Cramer Avenue feature limestone pillars. The neighborhood was developed in 1905, and homes in the district were constructed 1906–1934. Four styles of architecture are evident, including American Foursquare, Colonial Revival, Colonial Revival Cottage, and Bungalow. Foursquare and Colonial houses are two stories, and Bungalows and cottages are {{frac|1|1|2}} stories. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.<ref name="nrhpdoc">{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=85002973}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mentelle Park |publisher=National Park Service|author1=Richard S. DeCamp |author2=Bettie L. Kerr |date=July 31, 1985 |accessdate=May 9, 2019}} With {{NRHP url|id=85002973|photos=y|title=accompanying pictures}}</ref>

Mentelle Park is named for the Mentelle family, and developers purchased 14 acres from heirs of Rose Mentelle in 1905 and formed the Mentelle Company. Lexington mayor Thomas A. Combs was president of the company.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lexington's Memorable Mayors |publisher=Lexington History Museum |author1=Jamie Millard |author2=Bobbye Gayle Amato |url=http://lexhistory.org/wikilex/lexingtons-memorable-mayors |accessdate=May 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124105724/http://lexhistory.org/wikilex/lexingtons-memorable-mayors |archive-date=November 24, 2018}}</ref> The land was purchased by Waldemarde Mentelle Jr., in 1854 and deeded to his sister, Rose Mentelle, upon his death in 1886. The company developed 56 home sites along an extended block with a segmented median, and the 48 contributing resources in the district are part of the original development.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mentelle neighborhood's history |publisher=Mentelle Neighborhood Association |url=http://www.mentelle.org/neighborhood-history/ |accessdate=May 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923051443/http://www.mentelle.org/neighborhood-history/ |archive-date=September 23, 2017}}</ref>

==See also== * Edme Mentelle, father of Waldemarde Mentelle Sr. * Mary Todd Lincoln, Madame Mentelle's finishing school graduate

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==External links== * {{commons category-inline|Mentelle Park}}

==Further reading== * Randolph Paul Runyon, ''The Mentelles: Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Clay, and the Immigrant Family Who Educated Antebellum Kentucky'' (University Press of Kentucky, 2018)

Category:National Register of Historic Places in Lexington, Kentucky Category:Neighborhoods in Lexington, Kentucky Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky