Lincliff

Lincliff
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Gates at the end of the drive
Location	6100 Longview Lane, Louisville, Kentucky
Coordinates	38°17′45″N 85°39′45″W / 38.29583°N 85.66250°W / 38.29583; -85.66250Coordinates: 38°17′45″N 85°39′45″W / 38.29583°N 85.66250°W / 38.29583; -85.66250
Area	29.5 acres (11.9 ha)
Built	1911 (1911)
Architect	Kenneth McDonald; William J. Dodd
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival
MPS	Jefferson County MRA
NRHP Reference #	83002694[1]
Added to NRHP	August 16, 1983

Lincliff is a Georgian Revival house in Glenview, a part of Louisville, Kentucky, United States, built in the early 1910s by William Richardson Belknap.^[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^{[1] [3]} Lincliff was recorded in the Courthouse Deed Book 5344, p. JF-531 in 1911 as a property and residence on approximately 29.6 acres on Louisville's River Road along the Ohio River.^[4]

Lincliff was built in 1911-12 for William Richardson Belknap, president of Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, one of the largest wholesale hardware firms in the United States at that time. The company, founded by Belknap's father, William Burke Belknap (the elder), is no longer extant. The William Richardson Belknap family was long active in civic, cultural, and philanthropic affairs in Louisville. The estate was sold out of the Belknap family in 1922 according to the Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory: JF-531 in the Jefferson County Office of Historic Preservation and Archives.^[5]

In 1945 it was purchased by the C. Edwin Gheens family. Mr. Gheens owned the Bradas and Gheens Candy Company. His widow, later Mrs. Richard H. Hill, was involved in many civic and philanthropic causes and lived at Lincliff until her death in 1982.^[6]

Lincliff is currently one of the principle residences of writer Sue Grafton and her husband Stephen F. Humphrey.

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