Locust Grove (Louisville, Ky.: Estate); Dwellings; Houses; Mansions; Porches; Buildings
Address: 561 Blankenbaker Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. This Georgian style home was built by William and Lucy Clark Croghan in 1790 on the property known as Locust Grove. The building is brick with multiple chimneys and shuttered windows. The...
Floods; Industrial facilities; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Smokestacks; Buildings
Water surrounds the Beargrass Gas Plant. Utility poles in the middle of the photograph show water about halfway up the poles. In the foreground a man stands in a shallow boat poling his way through the water. Steam and smoke still rise up from the...
Dwellings; Houses; Men; Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Ky., Inc.
Two-story light brick house consisting of two large, perpendicular sections, with shutters and many chimneys. A line of trees (some of them severely pruned) and a picket fence with a six board gate runs in front of the house; behind the fence, four...
Side view of a two-story brick house with two large, perpendicular sections and several chimneys. A wire fence, telephone poles, and trees line the dirt road adjacent to the house.
Grainy photograph of a stone cottage with thatched roof, several chimneys, and three large windows. There is a peeling coating over the stone. The McKinley cottage, a display within the Irish Village on the "Pike" at the World's Fair in...
A large brick home with four chimneys and white columns connecting the porch and balcony; evidently the Nelson residence on their farm in Clark County, Kentucky.
Address: 1323 S. Preston Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This is the northern view of an old brick building at the corner of Marret Avenue and Preston Street. The remnants of old signs are painted on the building. The top sign advertises "Geo....
Owl Creek Country Club, in Anchorage, Kentucky. A simple white wood building with stone chimneys and smoke coming from right chimney. Patio tables and chairs are set up on porch under canopy.
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
On back of image: "My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown, Where Foster Wrote Song." Federal Hill, a two-story brick Greek Revival mansion with shutters and white curtains in every window and a flat roof with two chimneys, was the estate of the...
Nelson County Courthouse in Bardstown, Kentucky, a stylized building with A-frame fa?ade, three chimneys, a turret, two arched doorways, a bay window, and windows arranged in a square in the middle of the facade. Cars parked in front, with a man in...
Unidentified house in Simpsonville, Kentucky. The light brick one-story house with two chimneys has a high roof which has three vertical rows of rectangular roofing and one dormered window. There is also a porch covered in ivy.
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; African American universities and colleges; Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.)--Buildings
Simmons University, Seventh and Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, 1930. Two three-story buildings with chimneys, behind a low wall of concrete topped by a small iron fence. The college was founded in the 1870s to provide a college education...
Buildings; J.B. Speed Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School
Architect's rendering of Speed Scientific School, named J. B. Speed Hall, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. Wide, three story brick building with projecting center pillars and portico (labeled "1936") and a domed tower...
Mrs. A. T. Hert home in Hurstbourne at 2804 Shelbyville Road, near Louisville, Kentucky. Two to three-story "L" shaped brick house with four intersecting peaked roofs. A curved drive leads to a domed entrance and stairs. There is one bay...
George Washington School, 118 Cabel, Louisville, Kentucky. Three-story brick building with "George Washington School" written above a domed entrance and "First Ward School 1888" chiseled on a disc on a semicircular edifice. On...
Address: 734 Braeview Road. This house was commissioned as a residence for B. H. Straus. The house rests on top of a terraced hill with a walkway leading up to the offset front door. Three large windows are topped off with windowed arches. These...
Levi "Lee" Combs' farm. The large building in the center with three chimneys was the main farm house. The building in the left foreground was the Combs store. In the background are Mulberry Street and the road to Manchester at the base of...
Louisville Water Company (Louisville, Ky.); Pumping stations; Smokestacks; Engravings
Engraving of Water Works Tower in Louisville, Kentucky. Written on bottom of mounted print: "R.G. Potter Collection; Water Works; The Louisville Water Co. was granted a charter by state legislature in 1854 as a private corp. Capital of 1...
Engraved print of Louisville's waterfront by artist Charles Chardon of Paris, depicting horse-drawn carriages, people milling around, smoke coming from chimneys and smoke stacks of buildings and boats. Typed beneath image: "Noel del; Imp. Ch....
