The Lexington Herald Building, also known as the Nunn Building, in Lexington,

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, is a 4-story commercial structure designed by Leon K. Frankel of

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and constructed in 1917 as headquarters of the ''

Lexington Herald The ''Lexington Herald-Leader'' is a newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and based in Lexington, Kentucky. According to the ''1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook'', the paid circulation of the ''Herald-Leader'' is the second larg ...

''. F. Paul Anderson, dean of the College of Engineering at

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, where Frankel was also a professor, consulted on the steel frame of the brick building. The building's ornamentation is minimal, and it includes a denticulated cornice above the fourth floor windows and a

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. There is a gable in the parapet in the front center holds a decorative scroll displaying an "H" (for Herald). The building was added to the

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in 1982. With John L. Nunn purchased the ''Lexington Herald'' in the 1930s, and the Lexington Herald Building is now more associated with Nunn than with the ''Herald''. The building functioned as office space for various clients until 2006, when it was renovated and expanded as a condominium development. The building address had been 121 North Walnut Street, but Walnut was renamed Martin Luther King Boulevard, and the address is currently 121 N Martin Luther King Blvd.

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