Clark House
422 N. Limestone, built 1840s
Wm. Wiseman willed his niece, Eliza Wiseman, this house (No. 422 N. Limestone—43 ft. front and 67½ from 4th) April 15, 1858, evidently while dying, as he was able to make only a wavy mark for his signature.
Eliza Wiseman and her husband mortgaged “the dwelling house on Limestone St., at present occupied by the first parties” October 11, 1858, to Wm. Wiseman's executor, and sold it (residing then in Washington County, Ohio) in 1860 to Augustus Clark, who conveyed it to Enoch Clark, the carriage builder.
The property, “well known as the Clark house”, was conveyed by commissioner to J.H. Talbutt by court order in January, 1875. The house had been bought at public auction by Thos. D. Carr and P.C. Kidd, who transferred to Talbutt, as result of suit of Mary Ann Leake and Josiah Leake, her husband, against Martha Jane Kidd, Augustus C. Clark, Judith Clark, Abby W. Tibbett and John G. Tibbett, her husband, and B.G. Thomas, Administrator of Enoch Clark, dec'd.
John H. Talbutt and Mary G., his wife, sold the house October 12, 1875, to Gen. S.W. Price in a trade for property, on Upper St., between Fourth and Fifth Streets. Talbutt sued General Price in 1878 and recovered the house. The same year James E. Downing, trustee for Mrs. Margaret Downing and her children, purchased the house from Talbutt. Mrs. Downing lived here for several years.
Source: Dunn, C. Frank. Old Houses of Lexington. Lexington Public Library, 1976.
Transcribed by P. Brinegar, May 2004.
Updated January 1, 2026.