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This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.Latitude and longitude coordinates of the 86 sites listed on this page may be displayed in a map or exported in several formats by clicking on one of the links in the adjacent box.
In 1923, the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Building was built at 101-23 East Main Street in Louisville's General Business District on the site of the second Galt House. It was designed by the architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White of Chicago and at the time it was "the largest single-unit hardware plant in the world. . . .".
The Jones Store (Kansas City), absorbed by May Department Stores 1998, sold to Macy's chain 2006; The Paris (Kansas City) Kmart (St. Louis) Newman's , acquired by parent company of Heer's of Springfield in the early 1980s, closed in 1995; Scruggs Vandervoort & Barney , closed in 1967; Stix, Baer, Fuller (St. Louis), acquired by Dillard's in 1983
The table below includes sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Jefferson County, Kentucky except those in the following neighborhoods/districts of Louisville: Anchorage, Downtown, The Highlands, Old Louisville, Portland and the West End (including Algonquin, California, Chickasaw, Park Hill, Parkland, Russell and Shawnee).
About 70 years after Louisville was chartered as a city and about 20 years before the first Kentucky Derby was held, a four-room schoolhouse was built in western Louisville. ... 1627 Lucia Ave. in ...
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the Portland neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky (roughly bounded by the Ohio River on the north; N. 10th St. to the east; W. Market St. to the south; and I-264 and the Shawnee Golf Course to the west. Latitude and longitude coordinates of the 35 ...
View of Main Street, Louisville, in 1846. The history of Louisville, Kentucky spans nearly two-and-a-half centuries since its founding in the late 18th century. The geology of the Ohio River, with but a single series of rapids midway in its length from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to its union with the Mississippi, made it inevitable that a town would grow on the site.
1807 – Louisville Gazette newspaper begins publication. [2] 1808/12 – John James Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist and painter lived locally. [1] 1813 – University of Louisville opened. [1] 1820 – Population: 4,012. [3] 1828 Louisville chartered as a city. [1] John Bucklin becomes mayor. 1829 Lewis Pottery Company incorporated. [4]