Waveland State Historic Site

Waveland
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	Lexington, Kentucky
Coordinates	37°58′17″N 84°32′14″W / 37.97139°N 84.53722°W / 37.97139; -84.53722
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.