Historic pink home in Lexington’s Gratz Park has sold. Take a peek inside.
A distinctive 200-year-old home in Lexington’s historic Gratz Park neighborhood is off the market.
The pink brick house at 220 Market St., known as the Peter Paul House, has been sold, Christie’s International Real Estate Bluegrass announced Friday.
The closing price was $1.025 million, a representative of the real estate company said.
Kentucky Transportation Secretary Jim Gray, a former Lexington mayor, was the seller, having bought the house last March for $989,000, according to PVA records.
Christie’s announced that it was offering the home for sale in July.
“We’re very excited about having new neighbors in the park who understand the history and will care for it in the way it has been for more than 200 years,” Gray, who also owns an adjacent property, said Friday afternoon.
The federal-style home was built in 1816 by an English stonecutter, Peter Paul II, and artist, author and architectural historian Clay Lancaster later designed an addition.
Carolyn Reading and her husband, artist Victor Hammer, are among its previous occupants, as were Dr. Claude Trapp and Dr. Joan Rider, according to Herald-Leader archives and PVA records.
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom house features “period details like hardwood floors, pegged window frames, original shutters & ornamental coal-burning fireplaces,” Christie’s said in a release, along with newer amenities — a “custom kitchen features a large island, Corian countertops, extensive cabinetry & a walk-in pantry & mudroom.”
Other features include limestone tile floors, a number of arched windows and a private brick-walled courtyard. A huge old ginkgo tree in the courtyard is thought to have been brought there by Henry Clay.
Before Gray, John and Carolyn Hackworth had owned the home since 2000.
“Representing a property like the Peter Paul House is about more than matching a buyer to a home; it is about honoring a 200-year-old legacy,” listing agents Rusty Underwood and Rachel Underwood said in a news release. “This home is a vital thread in the Gratz Park tapestry, and we are proud to have facilitated a transition that ensures its history lives on.”
