Address: 224 E. Broadway. The ballroom of the Kosair Temple is shown with chairs lining the wood floor. A piano is on the right and rows of matching chandeliers line the ceiling. The ceiling and walls are ornately decorated in Egyptian-style...
A factory workroom at the Claude C. Matlack Company. Various parts of lamps and chandeliers sit on and around workbenches. Signs on the column read: "Gas Fixtures Made Electric Matlack" and "Special Designs Executed Matlack."...
Men; Suits (Clothing); Group portraits; Eating & drinking; People
Over twenty men pose for a shot at a dinner at The French Village in the basement of the Heyburn Building at 332 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. It is likely that the men are the employees of Anderson Manufacturing Company. Long tables are set...
Chandeliers hang from an ornately-decorated ceiling in Thompson's Restaurant. Seating appears to be single chairs with small flat surfaces attached to the arms. To the right are marble and wood counters with fruit and other food products, including...
Hotels; Interiors; Dining rooms; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.)
Located at the northeast corner of Fourth Street and Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky, the Brown Hotel dining room shows the opulence of the hotel. Rows of tables with white tablecloths line the room. Each table has two to four wood chairs. The...
Hotels; Ballrooms; Historic buildings; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 335 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Large chandeliers hang over the dance floor in the Crystal Ballroom of the Brown Hotel. Chairs edge the dance floor. An arched pattern is repeated in doorways, windows and the designs on the ceiling....
Men in suits and ties sit at tables in the Kentucky Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. The tables are set with bread and fruit cups and assorted tableware. Some of the men have ribbons on their lapels. A banner is hung from the back of the room which...
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...
Address: 604 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Couches and chairs sit empty in the Henry Clay Hotel lobby. The registration desk is to the right with a clock above it. The ceiling includes ornate molding. Lighting is provided by two...
Part of a series shot for Anderson Manufacturing Co. in Cherokee Village showing interior house trim. The entry from the front of the house has a slight point which is echoed in the doorway to what is likely a sitting room. The sitting room has two...
Part of a series shot for Anderson Manufacturing Co. in Cherokee Village showing interior house trim, this image shows two pointed archways made of wood, and likely represents two rooms and a middle hallway. Large windows are visible throughout. A...
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Presbyterian churches
Interior of Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, located at Fourth and Kentucky Streets in Louisville, Kentucky, showing pews, balconies, pulpit, and chandeliers.
Ballroom at the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky. It is a curved room with three high, curtained windows shown, a piano, and wooden chairs all along the wall. The parquet floor is empty. Two crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling, which...
Woodbine, home of Brainerd C. Lemon, at Newburg Road and Bashford Manor Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Drawing room. Dark wallpaper and parquet floor with area rugs. Two stiff backed armchairs, and sofa with padded bench. Cupboard with lower drawers...
Buildings; Cultural facilities; Theaters; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Lobby on second floor of the Rialto Theatre. The theater was on Fourth Street between Broadway and Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. Diagonal view of long room with three chandeliers; carved ceiling; left wall with four arched doorways between flat...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Drug abuse; Religious facilities; Chapels
Chapel interior, Narcotic Farm, Lexington, Kentucky. White walls, wide domed arches, beam ceilings, and circular metal chandeliers. Domed mosaic window at back of room behind an iron rail atop three low steps. The Narcotic Farm was built as a drug...
Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Lobbies
Lobby, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. High, ornate-ceilinged room with chandeliers containing lamps. Two square pillars support the ceiling. There are many ferns in the room, and a United States flag and British flag hang from two balconies...
Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Lobbies
Lobby, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. A long, more narrow room with three square pillars supporting a high, ornate ceiling with chandeliers containing lamps. There are many ferns in the room, and a British flag and United States flag hang...
Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Ballrooms
Crystal Ballroom, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. Large room with high ceilings, a polished floor, draped two story entryways, and crystal chandeliers. Padded, straight backed chairs line the walls between the entrances.
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
J.M. WHITE, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (312.7 ft. x 47.9 ft. x 11.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1878. Owned by Greenville & New Orleans Packet Co., J.M. WHITE operated on the lower Mississippi River. The 276th boat built at Howard,...
