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07/04/2011 12:16 pm
Dear Keith & steamboating colleagues:
Yesterday our delegation from the Cincinnati Art Museum visited Louisville's famed 'Speed Art Museum' to view the current show 'Impressionist Landscapces: Monet to Sargent' along with the other galleries. The 'Speed' is incredible ranking as one of America's fine museums. Galleries on Kentucky art, antiques stellar. We later lunched at the great 'Brown Hotel' for a meeting...yada...yada. But here's my question:
Driving down I looked, as usual, up on the bluff near Zorn Road in vain for a view of 'Rock Hill,' former home of Capt. C.W./Lucy Stoll of great fame. Alas, I didn't see it but recognized the trees around. Did I miss something or has 'Rock Hill' been demolished? Appeared to me there's a new, larger brick home being finished on the site. Keith, and others in the Louisville area know far more than I do. What fine memories of post steamboat race parties at 'Rock Hill' in years past. The 'Speed Museum' filled with much fine art coming from civic donors named Speed, Stoll, Bingham. Louisville can be justly proud and I encourage any on this web to visit if/when in town. Things are 'jumpin' in Lousville. Not 'pure steamboats' here but...well...
R. Dale Flick
Coal Haven Landing, Ohio River, Cincinnati. 'Duveneck Association'- Cincinnati art Museum.
07/04/2011 9:53 pm
Dale: Christina Stoll Kramer (C.W.'s daughter) and her husband visited the Howard Museum last November for the art show and Christy told me that only a portion of Rock Hill has been removed due to structural problems. It was her understanding that a new addition to the home would be constructed and used for the family library.
Rock Hill was built in 1832 by New Orleans cotton broker James Hewitt. It was later owned by the Callahan family until purchased by Capt. C.W. and Marijane Stoll in 1952. Lucy Miller Stoll left the house in April, 2002 and the mansion was sold by the Stoll family in 2003.
Image: Aerial view of Rock Hill on the bluff overlooking the Ohio.
07/04/2011 11:57 pm
Once again the posts did not come up on my computer, so could you start a different thread so I can know what's going on?