Bardstown
Bourbon Manor
Bruntwood, an 1840 Greek Revival house on what was Oaklawn Plantation; the inn says it was Confederate Gen. William J. Hardee's headquarters in 1862.
- Built
- 1840NRHP nomination gives 1840 for the Greek Revival house (builder/architect John Rogers) and calls the smaller brick house on the grounds 'perhaps built around 1820'. The inn dates the Manor to c. 1820-1823 and its Federal House Cottage to c. 1810.
- Style
- Greek Revival
- Architect
- John Rogers (NRHP); the inn credits James Marshall Brown, an apprentice of Rogers
- Type
- B&B
- Rooms
- 10
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Inside a National Register historic district
The story
Ruth Bealmear, daughter of Revolutionary War veteran Samuel Bealmear, and her husband Joseph Brown built the house on land from her father’s 3,000-acre land grant and named the estate Oaklawn Plantation. The inn says the cupola served as a lookout and the house as headquarters for Confederate Maj. Gen. William J. Hardee in September and October 1862, before the Battle of Perryville, and as a field hospital afterward. It was later a private home, a Depression-era boarding house and apartments, and has been a bed and breakfast for more than 25 years.
Good to know
- Breakfast: included
- Pets welcome
- Address: 714 N 3rd St, Bardstown, KY 40004
Sources (3)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.