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Kaufman-Straus was a local department store that operated in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1879 to 1969. In 1879, local retail clerk Henry Kaufman opened the first store on Jefferson between 7th and 8th. Four years later, Benjamin Straus entered into partnership with Kaufman.
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).
In 1903, Bacon's sons sold the store to the large New York City-based dry goods conglomerate H.B. Claflin & Company, the owner of Stewart Dry Goods. The store was acquired by Ohio-based Mercantile Stores [ 2 ] when Claflin went bankrupt in 1914. [ 5 ]
Bounded by Broadway, Louis Coleman Jr. Drive, Ohio River, the southern boundary of Chickasaw Park and the Paducah and Louisville Railroad 38°14′48″N 85°49′15″W / 38.2468°N 85.8209°W / 38.2468; -85.8209 ( Chickasaw Neighborhood Historic
Spalding Hall in Bardstown, which houses both the Bardstown Historical Museum and the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, [1] located on Louisville's Whiskey Row, featuring bourbon history and tastings, and interprets Louisville's wharf history in the 1790s
The local daily newspaper in Louisville is The Courier-Journal, a property of the Gannett chain. Local weekly newspapers include Business First of Louisville, Louisville Defender (African American paper published since 1933), Louisville Eccentric Observer (or LEO, a free alternative paper) and The Voice-Tribune.
WBNA (channel 21) is an independent television station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, owned by local charismatic megachurch Evangel World Prayer Center. The station's offices are located on Fern Valley Road (just north of State Route 1747) in Okolona, and its transmitter is located off Oakcrest Drive in Shepherdsville.
The state of Kentucky is served by the following area codes: . 270/364, which serve western Kentucky and the western half of South Central Kentucky; 502, which serves the Louisville and Frankfort areas