Wendover (Hyden, Kentucky)
Description and history
Wendover is located in a rural setting about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Hyden, Kentucky on a south-facing hillside, overlooking the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River. The principal building of the complex now on the property is a 2+1⁄2-story log structure covered with gabled roofs. It is roughly laid out as two wings joined by a central section, having begun as a traditional dogtrot house. Two large stone chimneys project through the main roof line. Windows are typically of the casement style, with larger windows in the more public spaces of the ground floor.
Mary Breckinridge, a Tennessee native, was exposed from a relatively early age to both midwifery and nursing, formally studying the latter in the early 1900s. During the First World War she was exposed to rural community health services in Scotland, an idea she thought to transfer to rural parts of the United States. She chose rural eastern Kentucky in part for its daunting logistical difficulties. Wendover became her home and a training facility for a network of clinics she established in the region. The Frontier Nursing Services is now based out of facilities in Hyden, and its training service is now Frontier Nursing University. The Wendover property now serves as a retreat center and bed-and-breakfast inn.
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Leslie County, Kentucky
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Kentucky
External links
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ Page Putnam Miller (October 18, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Wendover / Big House". National Park Service. Retrieved January 9, 2017. with four photos from 1990