Seneca Gardens

Before the area was settled by Europeans it was home to Indian tribes hunting for animals drawn to Beargrass Creek. Arrowheads, pottery, and artifacts have been found in the area.

Later part of Farmington, the 1810 estate of John Speed. The Speeds sold sections of their estate in the mid-1800s to Jacob Wetstein who built a home in 1846, located at 2501 Denham Road. His granddaughter’s husband became financially “wiped out” in 1929 and shot himself in the upstairs front bedroom of the house.

Built in the mid-1800s, Cardinal Hill remains, along with its original spring house, at 2539 Trevilian Way. When the house was built and by whom is not certain.

Another early settler, Paul Discher, bought land adjacent to Wetstein’s on what is now Meadow Road. The house no longer stands but members of his family lived in the area until the middle 1900s. Discher Land Co. and Wetstein Land Co. were the co-developers of Seneca Gardens in 1922.

Most of the houses were built during the prosperous years of the 1920s with the final tract developed in 1937.

Several of the houses were built by a prominent local architect, Stratton Hammond. Examples of his work include 2313 Meadow Rd., 2504 Seneca Valley Rd., and 2543 Dell Rd.

Situated between Woodbourne Ave., Carolina Ave., Taylorsville Rd., Bowman Field and Seneca Park.

City of Seneca Gardens