Paris, Kentucky · Bourbon County
The Estate
Eighty acres of rolling bluegrass in the heart of horse country, twenty minutes from Lexington and nearly two centuries deep in Kentucky history.
Since 1840
Some places are decorated with history. This one was built from it.
The Lary Manor rose in 1840 and has watched nearly two centuries of Kentucky pass its columns: wars and derbies, droughts and christenings, and generation after generation of the Lary family, who still welcome every event here personally. The log cabin nearby is older still, reclaimed and restored to its rustic charm.
What you feel when you arrive is not a venue that opened for the season. It is a home that decided, after nearly two centuries, to share its best days.
The manor porch, behind its 180-year-old shade
The heart of the estate
The Lary Manor
Marry on the front steps beneath the columns, host cocktails through the parlors, and let the double gallery hold your whole wedding party for the portrait everyone frames. Upstairs, the bridal suite gives the morning-of its own address: tall windows, deep light, and room for every robe and garment bag.
Intimate indoor gatherings fit the manor's elegant rooms as naturally as grand tented affairs fit its lawn, and overnight accommodations across the estate sleep up to nineteen of your nearest.
Kentucky's signature, kept
The Black Barn
Every horse farm in the bluegrass paints its barns black. Ours just happens to set a beautiful table. Greenery chandeliers in the rafters, velvet lounges in the stalls' old footprint, and a gallery porch made for one very long dinner as the pastures go dark.
The groom's quarters
The Cabin
Reclaimed log walls, a hunting-lodge easiness, and a kitchen guests describe as “was this in a magazine?” The cabin gives the groom and his groomsmen their own corner of the farm for the morning, and gives weekend guests a reason to fight over room assignments.
Between the manor and the cabin, the estate sleeps nineteen, so the people you love most never have to say goodnight and drive away.
For all those times you've wished you could run away and live in the country, here's your chance. I challenge you to find a spot on the property that isn't breathtaking. Though we were just visitors, we definitely felt right at home.
Eighty acres of backdrop
The Grounds
The great oak over the ceremony lawn. A pond with a resident swan. Paddocks of grazing horses, a pool for cocktail hour, and a night sky the city never touches. Photographers call the estate heaven; couples mostly just point.
The great oak
The pond
The residents
The pool & lawn
Four estates for the price of one
Pick your season
The bluegrass wakes up first
Foals in the paddocks, dogwoods along the drive, and that impossible Kentucky green rolling all the way to the fence line. Spring at GlenLary photographs like a memory you have not made yet.
See it with your own eyes
The drive alone is worth the trip
Private tours run seven days a week. Bring your people, bring your questions, and plan to stay a little longer than you meant to.
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