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Downtown Louisville is the largest central business district in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the urban hub of the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Area. Its boundaries are the Ohio River to the north, Hancock Street to the east, York and Jacob Streets to the south, and 9th Street to the west. As of 2015, the population of downtown ...
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.
Old Louisville is a historic district and neighborhood in central Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is the third largest such district in the United States, and the largest preservation district featuring almost entirely Victorian architecture. [2][3] It is also unique in that a majority of its structures are made of brick, and the ...
Twenty years ago, the future of downtown Louisville, Kentucky's Whiskey Row was hard to see. The block-long stretch of historic buildings dating back to the mid-to-late 1800s was largely empty ...
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.
The Frazier History Museum, previously known as the Frazier Historical Arms Museum and the Frazier International History Museum, is a Kentucky history museum located on Museum Row in the West Main District of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. [1] Founded in 2004 as a museum of historical arms and armor, the Frazier has since expanded its focus.
Louisville [b] is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. [a] [11] By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city, although by population density, it is the 265th most dense city.
West Main District, Louisville. / 38.25723; -85.7621. The West Main District is one of the five districts of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The district, or a portion of it, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as West Main Street Historic District, due to its containment of some of the oldest structures in the city.