945 Architects Shryock / Another Shryock

Category: Markers

Marker reads Best known surname in Kentucky architecture is Shryock. Family home, erected by Matthias Shryock 1774-1833, here. Designed first Episcopal church in city, 1814, and Mary Todd Lincoln home on W. Main. Son, Cincinnatus, born here, 1816. First Presbyterian Church, built 1872, considered his best. Also designed many homes. Died, 1888. Both buried in Lexington.