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bank authorized by the legislature in the 1840's. After thirteen years, however, the legislature voted to liquidate the state bank system. George Norton moved to Louisville soon afterward and opened a private bank- ing house with his brother William F. Norton. The Norton's closed the bank in 1885, partly because of George's failing health, and in 1889 George died at the age of seventy-four, After his death the three sisters de- cided to build a new home and hired arch- itects Collidge and Shattuck of Cleavand. The style of Gardencourt, often identified as Georgian, is more correctly identified as Beaux-Arts with strong Georgian in- fluence evident in the structu re. Con- struction was begun in 1905 and com- pleted in 1906. Six massive columns support the man- sion from the front. Inside, a marble- floored hallway, lined with sculpture and gilt mirrors, is dominated by the massive carved staircase. A glass-enclosed sun- porch opens onto the formal gardens, and a view of the park is possible from all sides of the estate's hilltop site. When the sisters decided to build in Cherokee Park, then in the infant stages of residential development, they were con- cerned about moving that distance from the center of town. After some deliberation the sisters decided to purchase an auto- mobile - then newly in vogue in Louis- ville - and the carriage house on the estate was expanded to accomodate the vehicle. After Minnie's death in 1911, Lucie and Mattie continued to live at Garden- court, remaining active in social and philanthropic work. Lucie was a sponsor of the Baptist Orphans Home and the Children's Free Hospital. Mattie served as chairman of the Frontier Nursing As- sociation, plus being a charter member of the Louisville Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). In 1924, Mattie, Lucy, and their brother, George Norton, Jr. , pledged $100,000 to the Southern Baptist Sem- inary for its move from Fifth and Broadway to its present location on Lexington Road.
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When the Norton sisters, Minifred, Lucia and Martha, built Gardencourt in 1906, they probably didn't realize that it would one day become a Louisville showplace. Nor could they foresee that within forty years it would become a branch campus of the University of Louis- ville. The Nortons were merely building in the Norton family tradition. Minnie, Lucie and Mattie were re- spectively fifty-three, forty-seven, and forty-three when they moved into the three- story, twenty-room mansion overlooking Cherokee Park. Minnie was the widow of William Caldwell, Jr. , and Lucie and Mattie never married. Minnie was to en- joy the formal gardens, mahogany furni- ture, and imported carpeting and drapes of Gardencourt for only five years before her death in 1911. When their father, George Washington Norton, brought his family to Louisville in 1867, he established a home on Broad- way (Broadway then being the ultimate in residential neighborhoods , as one Norton biography explains) near the pre- sent site of the Heyburn Building. There he and his wife Martha raised a family of seven children--five daughters and two sons. George W. Norton was the eldest son of William Norton, a Pennsylvanian who settled in Russelville, Kentucky around 1804. Soon after his arrival the thirty- two-year-old Norton married sixteen-year- old Mary Hise, the daughter of fellow Pennsylvanian settlers. Norton founded the family fortune through his blacksmith and hardware busi- ness. He smelted nails, his chief money- maker, from iron bars shipped down the Ohio River to Shawneetown, Illinois, and brought overland by wagon to Russelville. Norton's nails, rakes, hoes, chains, and other implements were in great demand by the pioneers, and his trade quickly bur- geoned into a prosperous business. George inherited his father's business sense. At fourteen George had finished his education and was working as a store clerk. Four years later he had invested his entire $1,000 savings in stock to open a store of his own. In 1850 George became president of the Southern Bank of Kentucky, a state a ed +. ot paella Ms RS.
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