One Hundred and Fifty Years of Style and Elegance...

Historic Elmwood in St. Matthews, (Louisville, Kentucky) was built by Richard Herr in 1856 on a three hundred acre tract. The Herr family originally came to Kentucky as land surveyors and explorers in 1779. Settling in the St. Mathews area of Louisville, they secured title to thousands of acres. In the following decades the Herr family became prominent plantation owners. The second generation Herr's built six-mansions in the St. Matthews/Louisville area. Elmwood Mansion is one of four remaining Herr-mansions.

The great Louisville, Kentucky antebellum mansion that is Elmwood received one of its many honors in 2007. Bellarmine University selected Elmwood Mansion as the 2007 Designers' Show House. Twenty-six premier Louisville area interior design professionals selected a room, a hall or a foyer and restored their designated space using their design skill and art to produce absolutely spectacular living spaces. Many thousand Show House patrons toured Elmwood in September 2007, the door proceeds funding Bellarmine University scholarship programs.

You may reserve the first floor suite. It is Southern ambiance and elegance to an extreme degree. It is 3,000 square feet with elegant high ceilings, broad ceiling moldings and beautiful tall casement windows with Federalist style window treatments.

You may reserve the entire second floor suite for your private and exclusive use. The second floor suite has a private outside entrance. It is 2,600 square feet of Southern elegance, replete with great mural art work and absolute beautiful furnishings.

The Colonel and Margaret Sue welcome you to Elmwood Mansion, their family home.