Anatok (Bardstown, Kentucky)
Anatok is a historic mansion in central Bardstown, Kentucky. The two-story, double-pile, brick Greek Revival home was built in 1847 for Charles T. Hayden. The home has a limestone foundation, four brick interior end chimneys, and a standing seam hipped roof. In 1900 a one-story Colonial Revival wraparound porch, supported by Ionic columns, and a pedimented dormer were added. The home was named Anatok in the 1890s by then owner James L. Druien.It was once home to Daniel Rudd, a prominent African-American Catholic journalist, was born into slavery on the plantation in 1854. In 1889, Daniel Rudd called together the first National Black Catholic Congress which was held at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.
