Commonwealth Life Insurance building was located on the northwestern corner of Fourth Street and Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky, between the Kenyon building and United States Trust building. Built in 1928, 19 stories were added to it in 1955, and...
Buildings; Banks; Lincoln Savings Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 136 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1973) .This street scene pictures Lincoln Savings Bank. The scene shows telephone or electricity poles, a horse-pulled carriage, and trolley tracks. Advertisement on the Herald building next door reads,...
Buildings; Building construction; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969.) This photograph captures the building of the Rialto Theatre. You can see the rounded edge of the stage as well as the tiered seating. Numerous workmen are shown, but the picture is centered on two...
Buildings; Building construction; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969.) This scene from the construction of the Rialto Theatre shows workmen standing on beams and four men in suits. We are fairly certain that the two men in the middle are Alfred Joseph (left) and his...
Buildings; Building construction; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969) . The classical façade of the Rialto made extensive use of white-glazed terra cotta tile from Cincinnati's Rookwood Pottery. This scene shows some of the machinery used in the construction as well...
Buildings; Canopies; Automobiles; Banks; Lincoln Savings Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 136 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1973.) The Lincoln Savings Bank is another of the buildings for which Alfred S. Joseph served as chief architect while at Macdonald & Dodd. Its glazed tile upper and lower tiers, setting off the brick...
Multiple views of the Dixie Dry Cleaning building, including one image with crop notations on it. The large building has faded white paint and broken windows and is possibly in the process of being demolished. It is in a lot with overgrown plants...
Ten-story Columbia Building, at Fourth and Main Streets in Louisville, Kentucky. Horse-drawn carts traverse the street in front of the building, and The Underwood is visible at right. Completed in 1890, the Columbia Building, also known as the...
The Courier Journal/Will Sales building at the southeast corner of Fourth Street and Green Street (now Liberty Street) in Louisville, Kentucky. A statue of George Prentice, a former editor of the newspaper, stands above the main entrance to the...
Views from the ground floor of the rubble remaining from a demolished building. A wall stands but there are no ceilings and the floor is covered with rubble, wood, glass, and other items from the building.
Buildings; Stores & shops; Drugstores; Western Union Telegraph Company; Automobiles; Street railroads
Walgreen Drugs, Western Union, and other retail shops and businesses in Martin Brown Building (later renamed the Commonwealth Building), Louisville, Kentucky. The building was demolished in 1994. Handwritten on back of print:...
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; B. F. Keith Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Original address: 506 W. Walnut Street (Building demolished in 1952). The lobby of the B. F. Keith Theatre (a.k.a. National Theatre) had a domed and decorated ceiling with pendant chandeliers. Handwritten on front: Caufield & Shook Photo....
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Canopies; Billboards; B. F. Keith Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 506 W. Walnut Street (Building demolished in 1952.). The exterior of the B. F. Keith Theatre (a.k.a. National Theatre) is shown with signs for upcoming shows. The structure includes a rounded canopy accenting the roundness of both the...
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Canopies; Carriages & coaches; B. F. Keith Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 506 W. Walnut Street (Building demolished in 1952.). This street scene shows a side view of the exterior of the B. F. Keith Theatre (a.k.a. National Theatre) and includes a globe-lanterned street light, a horse with delivery cart, and...
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Organs; Balconies; B. F. Keith Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Original address: 506 W. Walnut Street (Demolished, 1952). Built as a vaudeville theater by the National Theater Company in 1913, the design came from the architectural workshop of Albert Kahn. The National Theater was sold within the year to the...
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969). This is the grand staircase to the promenade of the Rialto Theatre. The staircase appears to be made of marble with tile flooring. Modeled on the Capitol Theater in New York City, only the best of...
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969). The second floor promenade of the Rialto Theatre included chandeliers, wall paper, frescoed ceilings, mirrors, chairs and loveseats, and table with mythological figures forming the pedestal....
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969). This view of the Rialto Theatre stage was probably taken from the balcony and shows an elegant stage, with orchestra pit and music stands. The stage is framed by an ornately tiled arch and the walls...
