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December 5, 1980. Bellevoir is a historic home in Lyndon, Kentucky, a part of the Louisville metropolitan area. The house was built ca. 1867 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Italianate-style home was built by Hamilton Ormsby, a member of a prominent family in Jefferson County. It is a 21⁄2 -story brick house. [1]
At that time a part of Kentucky County, Virginia, the town was chartered in 1780 and named Louisville in honor of King Louis XVI of France. In 2003, the city of Louisville merged with Jefferson County to become Louisville-Jefferson Metro. As of the 2010 census, it is the largest city in the state of Kentucky, the largest on the Ohio River, and ...
Kentucky Colonels (ABA) (2004–2006) Louisville Gardens is a multi-purpose, 6,000-seat arena, in Louisville, Kentucky, that opened in 1905, as the Jefferson County Armory. It celebrated its 100th anniversary as former city mayor Jerry Abramson 's official "Family-Friendly New Years Eve" celebration location. It was added to the National ...
9701 Cooper Church Dr. 38°06′26″N 85°40′51″W / 38.107222°N 85.680833°W / 38.107222; -85.680833 (Fishpool Plantation) Louisville. Formerly 9710 Preston Highway, before construction in Hillview. Current location can be found at Kurtz Ave. and McCrea Ln. 74.
Louisville City Hall Complex. September 1, 1976 601, 603, 617 W. Jefferson St. ... Miller Paper Company Buildings: Miller Paper Company Buildings: February 11, 2011 : ...
72000536 [1] Added to NRHP. October 18, 1972. Farmington, an 18-acre (7.3 ha) historic site in Louisville, Kentucky, was once the center of a hemp plantation owned by John and Lucy Speed. The 14-room, Federal-style brick plantation house was possibly based on a design by Thomas Jefferson and has several Jeffersonian architectural features.
Owsley Brown Frazier was a wealthy businessman and philanthropist in Louisville. [4] [8] When a tornado struck the city during the 1974 Super Outbreak, it destroyed Frazier's home, and a rare Kentucky long rifle that he owned – a family heirloom made for his great-great-grandfather in Bardstown in the 1820s and gifted to him by his grandfather in 1952 – disappeared. [9]
The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, now colloquially referred to as the Speed[1] by locals, is the oldest and largest art museum in Kentucky. It was established in 1927 in Louisville, Kentucky, on Third Street next to the University of Louisville Belknap campus. It receives around 180,000 visits annually. [2]