Northwest corner of 4th Street and Main Street with an exterior view of the Columbia Building, a multi-story brick building with arched windows on the ground floor. Multiple offices are housed within the building.
In 2003, Wilson Creek running through Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in central Kentucky was restored to its original winding path through a valley field. Early 20th century settlers had previously redirected this creek to run a straight...
Address: 1603 S. Second Street. This building served as the neighborhood theater for a mixed professional and working class area near the present duPont Manual High School. An arched entryway appears to have drapery suspended from above. The...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Office buildings;
Location: 132 East Gray Street. Current uses: University offices. Named in honor: Arthur Keeney, dean of UofL Medical School, 1973-1980. Former uses: Housed the James Graham Brown Foundation; Residence. Type of architecture: Victorian. Square...
The Baxter Building was torn down in 1925 by the University of Louisville to make way for the Speed Art Museum. Location: Belknap Campus: on site of present-day Speed Art Museum. The Baxter Building served as a the main building for the House of...
Address: 1810 Sils Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Designed by J. Earl Henry, the Belknap School was housed in this building until Jefferson County Public Schools closed the school in 1978. The Belknap Building, which became a condominium in 2006,...
Buildings; Automobiles; Windows; Caufield & Shook, Inc. (photographers); Bernheim Building (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 638-640 S. Fourth Street. One of the earliest office buildings commissioned from the Joseph & Joseph firm, this striking building still stands. During the 1920s and 1930s, it housed the photographic studios of Caufield & Shook, who...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Brigman Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Educational facilities;
Brigman Hall at the University of Louisville, from the period when it housed the School of Business (1958-1974). The building is seen at an angle and McCandless Hall is partially visible in the background. A figure stands under the street light in...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; Laboratories; Pipes (Conduits); Brigman Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
Laboratory in Brigman Hall with various pieces of engineering laboratory equipment. Pipes run along the ceiling. This image dates to the period when the Speed Scientific School (now the J.B. Speed School of Engineering) was housed in Brigman Hall....
Buildings; Brigman Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; Columns; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School
Brigman Hall, when it housed the Speed Scientific School, University of Louisville, Belknap Campus, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. A vase-like concrete ornament, a curved drive, and a building are seen. The building is two stories with two wide, low...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities;
Burhans Hall, part of the old Kentucky Southern College campus. Originally housed administrative offices, classrooms and cafeteria of Kentucky Southern College; after Southern closed, it housed UofL School of Music's Administration Building....
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Kentucky Southern College; Educational facilities;
Burhans Hall, part of the old Kentucky Southern College campus. Originally housed administrative offices, classrooms and cafeteria of Kentucky Southern College; after Southern closed, it housed UofL School of Music's Administration Building....
Painted-over brick wall sign on side of old industrial building in abandoned parking lot across the street from Papa John's Cardinal Stadium on Byrne Avenue near Floyd Street. Building once housed Fulton Seafood Industries, Inc. and bears plastic...
Northwest corner of Chestnut and Third Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1928. Goodman's Delicatessen; Benzole Cleaners; Louisville Council of The Boy Scouts of America; Shoe Repairing; EDW. Soskine Jeweler, Silverware; A. Borowitz Tailor; and...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Fraternities & sororities; Student housing;
Chi Omega sorority, seen from the back. Current uses: Housing for sorority since 1970. Named in honor: Named Zelma Karr Jenks Home Management Building in 1951, in honor of Zelda Karr Jenks, who served as head of Home Economics from 1923 to 1941....
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Model houses; Educational facilities;
Chi Omega Sorority house, with University Towers Apartments in the background. Current uses: Housing for sorority since 1970. Named in honor: Named Zelma Karr Jenks Home Management Building in 1951, in honor of Zelda Karr Jenks, who served as head...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Collegiate Institute of Louisville; Educational facilities;
This building was the second home of Louisville Collegiate Institute, or Louisville College. Louisville Collegiate Institute was created November 14, 1837 with provisions for seven departments: Mental and Moral Science and Political Economy;...
Men sit and stand in the yard next to Oneida Mercantile Company's "Big Store." They are gathered for a meeting of the Magisterial Court. The "Big Store" also housed the Masonic Lodge on the second floor. Handwritten on bottom...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Women; Lounges; Tables; Chairs; Benches;
Room within the Dean's Building from the time when it was used as the Women's Building. Several women are seated in chairs; most of them appear to be reading. The room is sparsely furnished with simple chairs, small tables, and lamps, along with a...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Women; Lounges; Couches; Chairs; Pianos;
Room from within the Dean's Building, from the period when it was known as the Women's Building. Women sit on chairs and couches, most of them reading. There is a piano against a wall on the far side of the room. There are no decorations on the...
