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NCP car park in Brewer Street, London. NCP was founded in 1931 by Colonel Frederick Lucas. In October 1948 Sir Ronald Hobson, together with his business partner Sir Donald Gosling, founded Central Car Parks when the pair invested £200 in a bombsite in Holborn, Central London to create a car park. In 1959 Central Car Parks took over NCP from ...
Unlike other Louisville neighborhoods, Clifton was developed over a period of 60 years, with the first homes built in the 1860s sitting next to homes built in the 1910s, although nearly all homes were built in Victorian styles. Its residential areas are also much less dense than other nearby areas like Butchertown or the Original Highlands.
The parkway system of Louisville, Kentucky, also known as the Olmsted Park System, was designed by the firm of preeminent 19th century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The 26-mile (42 km) system was built from the early 1890s through the 1930s, and initially owned by a state-level parks commission, which passed control to the city of ...
Louisville Waterfront Park, once an industrial wasteland, Louisville's reclaimed waterfront now features trees and walking paths. Auburn Park (Jeffersontown) Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve; Blackacre Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead; Bowling Park (St. Matthews) Brown Park (St. Matthews) Dayton Avenue Park (St. Matthews)
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The land that is today St. James and Belgravia was at one time used for truck-farming and by 1875 became the site of a baseball park. [4] The land was later cleared, buildings were erected, and it hosted the Southern Exposition from 1883 to 1887. [5] The exhibition was held on 23 acres of open land south of Central Park.
Development first began during the 1850s when the Louisville and Lexington turnpike (now Frankfort Avenue) and the Louisville and Frankfort railroad were built through the area. In 1853 a 38-acre (150,000 m 2 ) fair grounds were built and were used to host the Agriculture and Technology fair, which had 20,000 visitors on one day in 1857.
Southside is a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.Its boundaries are Third Street to the west, Woodlawn Avenue, Allmond Avenue and Hiawatha Avenue to the north, the CSX railroad tracks to the east, and the southern boundary of the Greater Louisville Technology Park (formerly Naval Ordnance), Southside Drive and Kenwood Drive to the south.