Churches; Religious facilities; Altars; Stained glass
Wooden pews face an altar which is carved with an image of the Last Supper. Potted lilies sit on either side of the altar and three stained glass windows are above. The windows come to a slight point at the top which is echoed in the cantilevered...
Theological seminaries; Religious facilities; Schools; Buildings; Historic buildings
Address: 109 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. This close-up on the entryway of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary shows its gothic elements. While the building is balanced it is not symmetrical and actually combines a number of...
One-story A-frame white wood church with stained glass windows and a corner steepled turret. The church is on the corner of a muddy road in Uniontown, Kentucky.
Brick church with a corner steepled turret topped by a cross and stone accents on the stained glass windows and buttresses. A low iron fence surrounds the church.
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, the Commodore Apartment Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The entryway of this 11-story building includes a low field-stone wall with...
Address: 122 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the first floor of the Urban Building are plate glass windows with signs for "Lincoln Building & Loan Association" and "L&N." Above the plate glass windows are...
Schools; St. Xavier High School (Louisville, Ky.); Educational facilities; Domes; Fences; Churches; Religious facilities; Steeples; Street railroad tracks; Buildings
Address: 118 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. St. Xavier's College, a Catholic High School for Boys, is housed in a building made of stone and brick and including a raised basement, three stories, and a dome with a cross on it. Stone steps lead...
Children; Group portraits; Dresses; Suits (Clothing); African Americans; Rites & ceremonies; People
Address: 1304 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Three rows of children pose for a photograph commemorating their first communion in front of St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church. The children are African American and range in ages from perhaps...
Republic Building (Louisville, Ky.); Cathedral of the Assumption (Louisville, Ky.); Office buildings; Churches; Canopies; Stores & shops; Buildings
Address: 429 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.), Louisville, Kentucky. This view of Fifth Street includes the Republic Building and the Cathedral of the Assumption. The Cathedral was completed in 1852 and is one of the oldest public...
Theological seminaries; Religious facilities; Schools; Automobiles; Buildings; Transportation
Address: 109 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Constructed in sections from 1904 through 1909, this complex of buildings originally housed the Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In 1967 it was purchased by Jefferson Community College. A great lawn...
Temple Adath Israel (Louisville, Ky.); Religious facilities; Buildings; Historic buildings; Synagogues
Address: 834 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. "Mine house shall be an house of prayer for all people" marks the entry of Temple Adath Israel. The words are carved above a series of Ionic columns which support a pediment with...
Churches; Religious facilities; Buildings; Historic buildings
Address: 213 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. St. Paul's German Evangelical Church and Parish House is set back from the street by a wide sidewalk and parkway with immature trees. Built in 1906 in the late Gothic Revival style, the church is made...
Formerly located at the northeast corner of Second and College Streets in Louisville, Kentucky, this building no longer exists. A stone retaining wall surrounds the property. The main entry which faces Second Street has a pointed arch which is...
Formerly located at the northeast corner of Second and College Streets in Louisville, Kentucky, this building no longer exists. A stone retaining wall surrounds the property. The main entry which faces Second Street has a pointed arch which is...
Vaults (Architecture); Buildings; Religious facilities; Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani (Trappist, Ky.)
Address: 3642 Monks Road, Trappist, Kentucky. Stained glass windows are set in pointed arches along the walls of the Abbey of Gethsemani. A vaulted ceiling towers over the wooden pews and altar. Books rest at an incline on wooden stands. In the...
Address: 919 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. A double set of doors and a double set of windows sit under matching arched windows. Between the windows is the symbol of compass and a builder's square with the letter G inside. The square and...
Address: 1357 S. Twelfth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A car is parked at the curb of a brick-lined road in front of Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital. A low stone wall and hedges surround the property. The symmetrical building has tall rectangular...
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, the Commodore Apartment Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The entryway of this 11-story building includes a low field-stone wall with...
Transportation; Street railroads; Automobiles; Union Station (Louisville, Ky.); Railroad stations; Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company; Streets
Address: Broadway and Tenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Union Station's impressive stone edifice faces Broadway. A large canopy protects the entryway above which is a large circular stained glass window. A clock tower indicates the time as 9:00....
Churches; Religious facilities; Buildings; Bell towers; Air pollution
Address: 1127 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. A tri-partite stained glass window is set in a Tudor arch of a stone church. Above the window is a bell tower with a cross atop it and below is an inset doorway with double doors. The face of the...
