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| Nearest city | Lexington, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 37°58′17″N 84°32′14″W / 37.97139°N 84.53722°W |
| Built | 1845 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 71000342[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 12, 1971 |
Waveland State Historic Site, also known as the Joseph Bryan House, in Lexington, Kentucky is the site of a Greek Revival home and 10 acres now maintained and operated as part of the Kentucky state park system. It was the home of the Joseph Bryan family, their descendants and the people they enslaved in the nineteenth century. Bryan's father William had befriended Daniel Boone and they migrated west through the Cumberland Gap.
Joseph Bryan, William's grandson, became an early planter here and established a plantation for tobacco and hemp as commodity crops. He also began to breed thoroughbred race horses. settler and horseman of this region.