6209 Wolf Pen Branch Rd, Prospect, KY 40059

The Taylor/Chandler House is one of the Country Estates of Historic River Road. The Dutch Colonial Revival was completed in 1931 by James Taylor, a notable African-American builder and founder of the nearby Harrods Creek neighborhood. A nearly identical home was built in Harrods Creek on Shirley Avenue as the hub of the then-new neighborhood. The house on Wolf Pen, located up the hill from Merriwether House, in "The Neck" of Harrods Creek, was briefly owned by Retired British Brigadier General Arnold Nugent Strode-Jackson, the first director of the Kentucky Derby Festival, who called it Strode Lodge. The home was then sold by the Strinauer family to a W.L. Lyons executive named James Chandler and his wife, Lelia Roemele Chandler, and dubbed Somerset. Lelia curated the entire property into a series of terraced hillside gardens, some of which survive to this day, notably dominated by yellow and white daffodils across the property. In 2009, Somerset underwent a complete professional renovation by Louisville architect Doug Schmitt. In 2019, the attic and basement were remodeled by the current owners.