Did you know: There’s a castle near Louisville? No, we’re not talking about the Kentucky Castle in Versailles — that’s all you, LEXtoday.
It’s located in the Yew Dell Botanical Gardens in Crestwood, and it’s now set to undergo a significant renovation.
In case you missed it, officials broke ground on the project last week. The development will be the first new gardens at Yew Dell since it opened to the public in 2002, transforming the area surrounding the castle to include several new features, such as:
- New gardens
- Water features
- Educational areas
The $5 million project is nearly two years in the making, with Yew Dell working to raise funds during that time. It’s being led by Seattle-based Land Morphology, a landscape architecture firm behind major projects from across the country, including the Brooklyn Botanic and Herb Garden and the Seattle Waterfront.
Yew Dell officials say the project will kick off the next several decades of growth at the site, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The castle was built by the Klein family in the early 1950s, and it originally served as a pool house on what was then the family farm.
Construction for the project is expected to be completed next year.
