The barn at a popular Nelson County bed and breakfast was destroyed in a fire early Tuesday morning.
The Bourbon Manor Bed and Breakfast’s 100-year-old barn caught fire around 2 a.m. It is believed the fire was the result of a lightning strike. “It was a pretty big sized barn,” said Jenny Vincent, who lives just a couple hundred feet from the manor property. She and her husband woke up and smelled smoke. “We went outside and that’s when we seen all the red smoke and everything. The flames were huge," she said.
Bardstown Fire crews told WDRB News the flames were 100 feet tall. “We could see it from several miles off. We actually could see it from the station. It was quite large and the amount of smoke it was putting off was quite visible,” said Bardstown Fire Lt. Corey Lanham. “It was quite a large fire to being close to the center of town.”